My ideas for our chapter service projects and my personal service projects are surrounded around the topic of benefiting others in any way, shape, or form. Kindness should be a gift that comes at no price to others. I firmly believe that anything I, or anyone anyone for that matter, should always try and help others, no matter the occasion. Helping others is important when we talk about those who have put themselves in danger for the safety of our country: our soldiers. One of my service project ideas would be for students to write a letter to families out there who have brothers, sisters, etc. that have fought or are currently involved with the military. This is the least that we can do to honor their valiant acts of selflessness. Just a
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Personally, I have never felt this, but it doesn’t come as a challenge for me to put myself in others’ shoes. I can just imagine how empty they feel. Let’s make one thing understood though: food poverty is not just about being hungry. Living to the point of poverty where one can’t buy food affects a person's life in so many ways. Firstly, food poverty hurts: the feeling of painful throbbing emptiness in your stomach that you can't ignore is a constant reminder of the social crisis you’re in. The pain that distracts children as they try to learn at school, but can concentrate on nothing but how much their stomachs are aching. Food poverty is isolating: the refusal to attend a social gathering because you can't contribute to the spread, or the decision not to invite someone to your house as you have nothing to feed them. How would you describe poverty? No shelter, food, or water might be your answer. In Brian Fikkert’s book ‘When Helping Hurts’ he explains about a World Bank survey done near the 1990’s, asking more than 50,000 people who lived in poverty: what is poverty? You might expect their answers to revolve around materialistic needs, but that’s not the case. They respond with feelings centered around issues such as embarrassment, humiliation, fear, depression, and the feeling of being without power in their lives. I aim to extirpate these types of feelings that are a result from the absence of
Personally, I have never felt this, but it doesn’t come as a challenge for me to put myself in others’ shoes. I can just imagine how empty they feel. Let’s make one thing understood though: food poverty is not just about being hungry. Living to the point of poverty where one can’t buy food affects a person's life in so many ways. Firstly, food poverty hurts: the feeling of painful throbbing emptiness in your stomach that you can't ignore is a constant reminder of the social crisis you’re in. The pain that distracts children as they try to learn at school, but can concentrate on nothing but how much their stomachs are aching. Food poverty is isolating: the refusal to attend a social gathering because you can't contribute to the spread, or the decision not to invite someone to your house as you have nothing to feed them. How would you describe poverty? No shelter, food, or water might be your answer. In Brian Fikkert’s book ‘When Helping Hurts’ he explains about a World Bank survey done near the 1990’s, asking more than 50,000 people who lived in poverty: what is poverty? You might expect their answers to revolve around materialistic needs, but that’s not the case. They respond with feelings centered around issues such as embarrassment, humiliation, fear, depression, and the feeling of being without power in their lives. I aim to extirpate these types of feelings that are a result from the absence of