Casa Hogar Sion (previously called El Faro) is an orphanage located in Tijuana, Mexico. It was opened in 1999 by Carmen and Jorge Lopez. The orphanage is a home to 120 children ranging from ages two months to 18 years old. My topic is mainly to raise awareness and funds to help out the orphanage. Throughout the year, I carried out different ways that I could do this. I had researched about the orphanage in the beginning of my project and contacted a member to let them know of the project. I chose to this project, because I was inspired by my teacher’s experience when he had gone to visit the orphanage. I wanted to inspire and help the children that he had spoke so fondly of. I have always wanted to do something that would benefit others and …show more content…
when the International Baccalaureate project was introduced, I took it as a chance to carry out my wish. The area of interaction for my project is Community and Service, which is exploring issues about what role we play in the society and how we can help others.
I am raising funds and awareness for an orphanage in Mexico. I am hoping to make a positive impact on the lives of the children in “Casa Hogar Sion” and encourage others to be the change they want to see in this world. My project fits well with the theme of Community and Service, because I accomplished different ways of raising awareness as well as funds for the orphanage. I encouraged others to help by sending out letters to ask for donations to different stores, as well as getting students in my school to donate clothes that are still wearable. I had sent a letter to a rotary club in my town, and I was delighted to get an email from them a couple of days …show more content…
later. At the beginning of the year, I did not have an idea what to do for my project until my teacher had told me the story of his visit to CASA Hogar Sion. I was hesitant to do such a big project at first, in fear that I wouldn’t do well and not finish the project on time. In the middle of November, I started staying after school twice a week to work with my IB advisor. The first two weeks, my advisor and I worked on my goals and what I wanted to accomplish for my project. My goal was to raise an amount of $1000 by sending out donation letters to different companies/stores. I also wanted to get the school involved by doing a clothing drive. Along with working on my goals, I researched more about the orphanage. My advisor contacted a college friend, Jose Yenque, who he had gone to the orphanage with. Jose Yenque visits the orphanage regularly, I listed the things that he had suggested that I could do for the orphanage. For the months of December and January, I devoted my time on writing a letter to send out to different stores/companies to ask for donations.
The rough draft for my letter was full of mistakes, which my teacher had told me to fix. My letter was revised a couple of times before it was finalized and I was grateful when it was finally finished. I sent my letters to a couple of stores, however I did not receive an email back. The principal had handed it out to a rotary club in town and I received an email back from them a couple of days later, which I was thankful for. The rotary club had invited me to one of their weekly meetings to discuss more about my project and to talk about ways that they could help. On February 17, I delivered a presentation to the rotary club at a nearby restaurant. I was extremely nervous as it was the first time that I experienced such thing, however, I did not do as bad as I thought I
would. The international baccalaureate project had taught me to be more responsible, well-prepared, and most importantly to be a risk-taker. At the beginning of this project, I admit that I was always slacking, but as I thought about how this project would affect my education, I became more responsible. I stayed after school twice a week to work with my advisor and I focused on the project despite others saying that it was not that big of a deal. When I presented my project to the rotary club, I was not well-prepared, which is probably why I didn’t do great. The most important characteristic that this project taught me is to be a risk-taker. I have always been the person that played it safe, I did not want to be involved in things that I know would be hard for me. Through this project, I’ve experienced situations that I have never been in and things I swore I didn’t want to do. I have not written a letter asking for donations until this project and when the letter was finalized, I felt a sense of accomplishment.
I am a 17 year old senior in high school and was asked to participate in creating and executing a community service project. My first reaction is to talk to my mother, she is very involved in the community and would have some good ideas. The one that stood out to me was doing a coat drive! Last year we did a small one that ended up providing mostly adult women’s coats. This year an organization that I’ve been a part of for four years, HOSA, is doing a coat drive and I’ve asked if I could piggy back on their project. The person in charge of the coat drive is Bailey Clark, she is the current president of HOSA. HOSA is a great organization that prepares high school students for working in the medical community after graduating.
Later that year, I was accepted into Spanish Honors Society, a volunteer based program to help out the Spanish communities near my school along with volunteering to help raise money for organizations that help less developed countries. One particular project that I helped raise money for through Spanish Honors Society, was Project Running Waters. The money raised for this event was donated to help people living in Guatemala receive fresh water through pipe systems that would be built. We raised over one thousand dollars to donate to this cause. Knowing that I can positively impact individuals in my community and in other countries makes me feel like I have grown maturely and am able to understand what needs to be done to make a difference to
This past summer, I acquired an internship at Baldwin and Lyons, an insurance company in Indianapolis. Every Wednesday during my internship, a couple of employees and I participate in a prodigious community service project, Meals on Wheels. Throughout the three months that I worked at Baldwin and Lyons, I got acquainted with some of the individuals whom we delivered to. These inspiring individuals were so grateful and appreciative that we took time out of our day to volunteer to do such a service. One elderly woman who we delivered to would sing to us as she came to the front door “good meals, good meals, good meals.”
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Throughout my life I have contributed too many extracurricular activities such as clubs, sports teams, and volunteer groups. However my involvement in my Latinos in Action volunteer group has taught me a plethora of valuable lessons that will forever be engraved in my memory. Latinos in Action is an organization that takes minority groups in local Jr High and High Schools and guides them in going and tutoring local school children that may need extra help. We also contribute a vast of our time doing service projects such as helping at local soup kitchens, Goodwill Stores, organizing food drives, gathering gifts for the less fortunate and helping in the general community. I have participated in the organization for three years now and every
I gulped. This was clearly not a good start to my family’s first night as permanent staff members at Rancho 3M Orphanage in Guadalupe, Mexico. I had found myself sitting in this cinderblock structure (the only blonde-hair, blue eyed girl for a solid 200 miles) on account of my parents. They had not just decided to merely move our entire family away from our hometown, but they had decided that as a family unit, we would trade our cushy, country club lifestyle to work in an impoverished area of Mexico, caring for children who had been abandoned. We all yearned to provide for them a hope and a future: a chance for an education. To be more than just street smart. To have their existence mean more than knowing which gang is better to commit their life to. My family desired for them to be book smart.
My project that I will be doing for my Senior project is helping out the Swan Falls Assisted living center here in kuna. I would be playing games, helping them get around, make cookies, and anything else they need. I want to give back to my community and help others out as much as I can. I also would like to donate blankets and warms socks to everyone that lives there since it’s winter and its cold. It’s a very nice and generous thing to do and some of those people in there don’t get to see their family since they live out of town, work, or medical issues.
This year in AVID, all 8th grade students went on a trip to the Milpitas Pantry. This field trip for AVID wasn’t just to go look around and a have the day off, it had a purpose. As AVID students, we were given the assignment to create a video, along with three classmates, that explained the benefits of donating, or not, to the Milpitas Food Pantry. Our video would then be shared throughout TRMS and everyone would get to see. From watching the videos, Students learn that donating to the Jack Emery Food Drive, which goes to the Food Pantry, can make a major difference in someone’s life. The project’s purpose for AVID taught me, along with my group, how to influence others into making a difference to help their community
My idea for the change our world assignment was to donate to some kind of organization. After thinking for a while of which organization would provide a good fit for this project, I came up with the Epilepsy foundation. The epilepsy foundation means a great deal to me because my sister has suffered with this disease for 5 years now. I wanted to make my donation personal and special in some sort of way so I decided to write a letter to the foundation about my sister’s story and how it has impacted everyone around us. My goal for the letter was to have money be donated that needs financial support because of hospital bills. The Epilepsy foundation is a non-profit organization that has nearly 50 organizations throughout
In February of 2010 a teacher at my high school was diagnosed with an uncommon form of cancer called angiosarcoma. Ms. Ensign was a business technology teacher. Along with her teaching she was a varsity softball coach, varsity volleyball coach and an athletic facility manager for the school. One could also spot her at sporting events and school assemblies taking photographs for the school yearbook. Ms. Ensign would be treated monthly in Houston, TX. Even though she had this rare form of cancer, one would never know because she always returned to school the next day after her treatments. Ms. Ensign was the most positive woman I have ever met. She was someone who gave everything to her community and asked for nothing in return. How would one give back to such an amazing person? Fortunately, a senior named Manda conceived a plan to help, She called it Mission Ensign. Mission Ensign began as an ongoing fundraiser that assisted in funding for all of Ms. Ensigns travel expenses. The first year we raised $10,000. Manda led Mission Ensign when I was a sophomore. Elected Student Council co-pr...
In the conclusion of my last fifteen hours of my senior project, I volunteered at Suncrest Assisted Living. The objective of my overall project was to volunteer around the facility and to help out with two events that I would help plan. Unfortunately, I was not able to finish the second event due to my mentor leaving the facility to work somewhere else. Even with losing the the second event, I was able to finish my hours helping around the facility and learn many life lessons along the way.
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Im thoroughly glad I chose Penn State to be my college, for many reasons of course, but one of them being the endless opportunities. Ranging from athletic events, the lively town, and various music related events, something is almost always going on. I was trying to decide what i’d like to do this assignment for, and something that crossed my mind was a way to help the community and give back since i’ve been given so much. So in return I did some googling and spoke with friends, and soon was informed that a blood drive was happening on a day that was convenient for me. I could not think of a better way to easily help others and feel great about myself at the same time. In high school, there was always a blood drive every 6 months to help the American Red Cross, normally I would try to donate as much as possible as frequently as possible. As the president of
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