Service Project- Angel Tree
The purpose of Angel Tree is to ensure that every child on Christmas morning has a present to open. Christmas is a time for giving and project Angel Tree is just one of the many ways people can give back to their community. The gift donated to project Angel Tree are given to children in the local community whose parents cannot financially provide them with a gift. Families in need sign up for Angel Tree, and then people in the community are able to “adopt” that child. Donors are giving the child’s age, gender, and what they would like Christmas. During the first part of project Angel Tree, a group of students and I helped to decorate Pyle for Christmas. We set up the Christmas tree in Pyle that hangs all of the …show more content…
Poverty takes away people’s freedoms. Poverty can also be an invisible problem going unseen by people until it is too late. Poverty put children at risk of death, sex trafficking, and child labor. Children that come from the poorest homes are three times more likely to not attend school than other children. Which only causes for more poverty, because if you cannot attend school than it will difficult to get a job in the future. If children raised in poverty cannot obtain jobs when they become adults, then when will the chain of poverty stop? For adult’s poverty means not having a job and fearing for your family’s future. Poverty for children however is very different. Poverty for children means not be able to always attend school, going to sleep hungry, and not getting to experience all of the joys of childhood like Christmas. But that is where project Angel Tree comes sets in to help. Project Angel Tree allows for families in need to be able to give their children a gift on …show more content…
There are many organization that you can get involved in to help stop poverty such as CARE, Feeding American, Project Bread, Kiva, ONE, Oxfam, and many others. CARE is one of the leading organization to stop global poverty. CARE focuses on empowering women to give them direction in their lives. Care provides the poor with preventions of diseases and proper health care knowledge. Feeding American is one of the nation’s largest charity fighting hunger. The members donated food to more than 25 million American every year. They have created hundreds of food banks around the United States. They are helping to end poverty by providing Americans with food for their families and themselves. Project Bread is another a hunger relief organization working to end world hunger. The organization has created The Walk for Hunger, were millions of dollars are fundraised to help stop starvation and fight poverty. Kiva is an organization working to end poverty in the world. Kiva’s mission is to empower individuals to help end poverty. Kiva is a website that connects people to create leadership in each other, so that leaders can arise to end poverty. ONE is a campaign and organization that works to fight against poverty throughout the world mainly in developing countries. ONE has several programs set up in Africa to help prevent diseases through the content. Oxfam is a group of 13 organization working hand in hand to partner in ending poverty forever. Oxfam works with
The purpose of Angel Tree is to ensure that every child on Christmas morning has a present to open. Christmas is a time for giving and project Angel Tree is just one of the many ways people can give back to their community. The gift donated to project Angel Tree are given to children in the local community whose parents cannot financially provide them with a gift. Families in need sign up for Angel Tree, and then people in the community are able to “adopt” that child. Donors are giving the child’s age, gender, and what they would like Christmas. During the first part of project Angel Tree, a group of students and I helped to decorate Pyle for Christmas. We set up the Christmas tree in Pyle that hangs all of the …show more content…
Poverty takes away people’s freedoms. Poverty can also be an invisible problem going unseen by people until it is too late. Poverty put children at risk of death, sex trafficking, and child labor. Children that come from the poorest homes are three times more likely to not attend school than other children. Which only causes for more poverty, because if you cannot attend school than it will difficult to get a job in the future. If children raised in poverty cannot obtain jobs when they become adults, then when will the chain of poverty stop? For adult’s poverty means not having a job and fearing for your family’s future. Poverty for children however is very different. Poverty for children means not be able to always attend school, going to sleep hungry, and not getting to experience all of the joys of childhood like Christmas. But that is where project Angel Tree comes sets in to help. Project Angel Tree allows for families in need to be able to give their children a gift on …show more content…
There are many organization that you can get involved in to help stop poverty such as CARE, Feeding American, Project Bread, Kiva, ONE, Oxfam, and many others. CARE is one of the leading organization to stop global poverty. CARE focuses on empowering women to give them direction in their lives. Care provides the poor with preventions of diseases and proper health care knowledge. Feeding American is one of the nation’s largest charity fighting hunger. The members donated food to more than 25 million American every year. They have created hundreds of food banks around the United States. They are helping to end poverty by providing Americans with food for their families and themselves. Project Bread is another a hunger relief organization working to end world hunger. The organization has created The Walk for Hunger, were millions of dollars are fundraised to help stop starvation and fight poverty. Kiva is an organization working to end poverty in the world. Kiva’s mission is to empower individuals to help end poverty. Kiva is a website that connects people to create leadership in each other, so that leaders can arise to end poverty. ONE is a campaign and organization that works to fight against poverty throughout the world mainly in developing countries. ONE has several programs set up in Africa to help prevent diseases through the content. Oxfam is a group of 13 organization working hand in hand to partner in ending poverty forever. Oxfam works with