Imagine traveling to another country, perhaps a beautiful island like Fiji, perhaps an exotic country like Brazil. Imagine being immersed in a totally different environment, culture, and language. Imagine being able to make a difference in the lives of those in poverty while still getting to sightsee, explore, and try new things. These things are easier to imagine than you think, because through the Humanitarian Experience for Youth these things are extremely possible. Humanitarian Experience for Youth offers the opportunity to change your life while changing the lives of others. Through your service with Humanitarian Especially for Youth
(H.E.F.Y.) you will help those in high poverty areas improve their lives while learning about their
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The greatest thing of all though is that you will get to do all of this while making a huge impact that will make a difference in the lives of so many people, including yours. HEFY serves in areas with large amounts of poverty. While on the expedition participants help build or improve facilities such as homes, schools, medical centers, nurseries, or care facilities for the disabled. This type of service helps in a more lasting way because it provides lasting opportunities for the people being served. For example, building a school gives these poor children the opportunity to get an education they would not otherwise have. By getting this education they are then able to get better jobs and make educated choices that affect their everyday lives. Building medical facilities helps them get care they do not otherwise have access to and helps prevent the spread of disease and lower mortality rates. A simple nursery provides a place for parents to send their children for childcare so that both parents can work to provide for their family. Facilities for the disabled help provide care for those …show more content…
The trip last around sixteen days and offers the trips on saturday and church on sunday. This means that most trips have twelve days of service and four days off. In addition to these days off, there are family home evenings (monday night activities with the family to strengthen family bonds and grow spiritually as a family) in a the home of a local family, daily devotionals, and daily scripture study. There is also a trip to the Latter Day Saint temple on the island. (HEFY is a Latter Day
Saint based program but also encourages youth of any religion to join the trip.) These expeditions last longer than the average vacation while costing, cost half the price of the same trip individually, offers a majority of the cost back through taxes, and offers opportunities not usually given. These expeditions also offer more than most vacations because they involve more interaction with the locals and more opportunities to be immersed in the culture of the community. HEFY is more beneficial than other humanitarian trips because it is specifically for youth at an age where it will make a great impact in their lives. Youth participants are ages
The thought of traveling sounds so fun, interesting and spontaneous. The two places I hope to travel to the most are Puerto Rico and Germany. I would like to travel to Puerto Rico because I would love to learn more about the place I was descended from. My reasoning for wanting to travel to Germany is because it’s outside the U.S. I have never been to another country, and I’m curious to see how different it is from here. I also picked two places that are very different from each other, so I could have a total different experience on each trip. These two places have some similarities, but they are more different then not. Overall, I would just love to explore and see a place that is so different from the customs, traditions,
...ave the education they need to thrive in society. Modern education is an essential part of society and without it society would fall to shambles.
Education can help Americans receive a well paying job and lead to less low income families. A quality education allows people to feel accomplished and empowered to get a job that could help their family and their financial needs. According to an article by the Global Partnership, education reduces economic inequality and “If each [employee] from poor and rich backgrounds receive the same education, the disparity between poverty would decrease by 39 percent” (“5 Ways Education Can Help End Extreme Poverty”). In an article by William Bennett, states that American companies estimate that currently there are 3 million jobs available. The downside is that the children are poor and lack the education to fulfill those jobs. The government needs to provide more affordable schooling so that young adults can obtain a higher education to earn a higher salary. Currently, The U.S. Census Bureau reported that in 2014 the poverty rate of people twenty-five and older was 12 percent. Figure 1 demonstrates the statistic provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. It clearly displays that Americans who obtain more years of schooling and further their education, display a lower poverty rate. In 2014, those who have obtained no high school diploma show a greater poverty rate in relation to those who do have a bachelor degree. For example, Americans who have no high school diploma have the highest poverty rate at 29 percent. In contrast, Americans who have Bachelor’s degrees or higher, have the lowest poverty rate at 5 percent (“How does level of Education Relate to
That desire to go where no one has ever been before is inside of all of us. All of us enjoy exploring new teritory that we have never been on before. It’s that thrill and excitement that fills our heart and soles.
People’s lives are changed every day by their actions and experiences. This past summer, I participated in a community service project, an experience that opened my eyes in many ways. I was a volunteer at the County Memorial Hospital. In my time as a volunteer at the hospital, I was able to meet patients and staff members from all over the world and learn about their life experiences. Listening to all of their stories has made me truly appreciate everything which I have.
Completing community service hours can really teach a graduating student responsibility. Graduating teens are becoming young adults. They still have to raise their hand if they want to go to the bathroom but
Getting prepared and ready to explore something new is just minor compared to the actual adventure for a senior anticipating the departure of their school trip. I was a member along with 30 other classmates of the co-curricular group called Business Professionals of America, a club organized through our school. Our teachers, club officers, and all of the members had been planning and fundraising for our trip to New York City for months. The excitement grew more and more as each day got closer to take off. All of us were anixious to see The Empire State Building, "Ground Zero," a Broadway play, and the spectacular views of gorgeous ocean sunsets. We had all been told and were aware of the different surroundings of the environment, or culture we would be experiencing when we arrived. Different cultures are common throughout the world, even in different places around the United States. Going on a trip to explore New York City really made the differences in cultures aware to me.
little help. They are able to be a non-disabled classroom and learn like a normal student would.
Ibn Battuta once said, Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. Pico Iyer would certainly agree with the quote. In his essay, “Why We Travel” he describes travel as a journey to a subjective zone. It is about the traveler and the place where traveler’s qualities and inputs are crucial since different people have their distinctive perceptions. Suzy Gershman, Jim Benning, and Rajendra Khadka show that they share different approaches from the other character within the story. This essay will depict the subjectiveness of the each story mentioned and how travelers distinctively experience the voyage into their travel destination.
Young adults from such backgrounds may lack the support that is indispensable for their success. The National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability says “Families play an important role in helping youth envision a future for themselves that is rooted in high expectations and thoughtful planning. All youth need the support of their families and other caring adults as they transition into adulthood.” Although this is directly geared towards young adults with disabilities, it can be applied to all individuals. Families need to support their youth as they prepare to face the challenges a young adult experiences. The NCWD gives several steps we as adults can take to help our young adults; maintain high expectations, remain involved in their life, help them access information, take an active role in transition planning , and help youth access networks of personal and professional contacts. These may seem like miniscule tasks to you, but to your loved one this form of support is
Volunteering at the Child Life Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital, one of our patients was a seven-year old girl, who spent more than four months in an oncology unit. She was so frus-trated and depressed. She wouldn’t even look at me when I first met her. That was quite disap-pointing, but I knew that there must be a way of communication with her. I patiently offered her multiple amusement options while smiling. Finally, after a whole month, she changed and became more and more motivated and interested in playing, painting and having fun, which was a big surprise for everyone. This experience reminded my grandmother while she was suf-fering from breast cancer and we were trying to cheer her up, yet she wasn’t interested in any activities at all. It was then that I became inspired and determined to pursuing a career in medi-cine because it allowed me to bring together
Unschooled people tend to be the outcasts of society and typically hold the least desirable jobs. Education is not only essential to attain a better paying job, but also elevates your individual status in society. Being knowledgeable changes the way others will perceive you and how they accept you. For those that don’t come from a fortunate background, education makes everything equal. Since education today is more accessible than years past, individuals from a less high social class are now able to compete with a larger number of professions. Having had a fine education places you on the same level as many others, which gives you an advantage to climb up on the social scale, lowering social inequality. For instance, Linda Chavez, the author of “We Were Poor, but I Didn’t Know It” and Cesar Diaz, author of “The Effects of Rio Grande Valley on a Scholarship Boy”, were both raised in a lower social class. They did not have much growing up but discovered that education was the key to
...to be more involved with their care and be able to understand the care that is being provided to them because they can help update medical histories, insurance information, and medications through portals from their homes. Allowing the patient to be in control of their own health and the care they are receiving.
Education is a very powerful key to success in modern day American society. More often than not, a person will not be able to find a decent job unless they have graduated from a reputable college with a degree. Because of this change in society, it has brought a lot of pressure by parents for their child to graduate and get a degree. A lot of those who graduate with a degree are not always the best candidate for the job, and even with the degree, they are not even always guaranteed a job. But personally, getting an education shouldn’t be as big of a deal, as it is now. Back in the day, most people did not go to college, none the less graduated from high school; yet they still made it through and learned lots of things from their jobs that they acquired.
The world is a magnificent place that’s full of life and new places. Places that are waiting to be walked upon and viewed by the eye’s of travelers. To make new memories and go places that is beyond the walls of reality and new pathways of life. To truly experience the wonders that the world has to offer can be expressed by the life of one single person, setting off into the world to gain a higher purpose about the world. Traveling individually enables people to broaden their minds and accumulate new ideas and new experiences both nationally and internationally. By setting off into the world a person has the ability to learn so many new things, but also find so much about themselves while in the process of traveling.