Last week I spent my final day at Viola Blythe with Chen Valdez. We mainly separated food and picked up some rice, which wasn't the most rewarding at first. However, once we had finished a couple of people had come in to collect the food to bring home to their families. The feeling of knowing that we took part in feeding a family in need gave a warm feeling. Surely a feeling that anybody doing this project would understand. I feel with thought shelters and programs like this one, we can make problem like world hunger end. However the first step to making that happen is by making a change in our own community. I hope to someday see that everybody in this world can be able to feed their body with the essential nutrients of life so that they can get beyond that struggle for hunger and focus on other improvement. Working on this project has make me thankful for not only having the life I have, but for being given the ability to make a difference in somebody else's life too.
I've decided that for my final volunteering I will try to work at a place that focuses on the same issue but has a different approach. I'm not sure were to find a place like this but even if I cannot I would be happy to return to Viola Blythe and possibly help of some familiar faces. Now that the Equity Project is coming to an end, I'm glad that it is something to have taken part in. I think reading my peers blog posts has also made me aware of problems that I didn't even know were present.The trend that has been reoccurring through them all is so obvious that I almost over-looked it. None of these "problems" can be fixed if we as individuals don't voice them and put our hands to work. These two things are both opportunities that every person is given in America, so we might as well take advantage of it. Helping others will never go unrecognized. This project had taught me a lot about socials issue, but it has taught me even more about how to approach them. Equity may be a difficult thing to grasp, but it should never been considered as too far away either.
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Help feeding those people in need was probably such a great feeling. And I agree completely with your though/idea of change. If we ourselves don't speak out and put our hands to work , the change will be a lot harder to make happen. I too also hope that someday everybody in the world can be able to feed their body with the essential nutruents of life so that they can get beyond that struggle for hunger.
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