In line with the vision and mission of my former high school (Pasig Catholic College) as a Catholic institution, every year, our school holds an outreach program. Organized by the parish beside our school (Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Pasig City), these outreach programs made us live out the principles we learned in our religion classes, reach out to people who are in greater need, and step out of our comfort zones by viewing reality as seen by other people.
One outreach program we had in high school was the soup kitchen program. In its broadest sense, children from poor families are the participants and beneficiaries of the soup kitchen. Every Saturday morning, these children go to the parish and participate in the different programs
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While there were breaks, the children were playing and talking together. Luckily, we were assigned to the older kids so they only needed little supervision; the little kids of the other groups were playing around the place. However, the soup kitchen program also had a dysfunctional consequence. Although the parish aims to help the families of poor children by feeding them lunch every Saturday through the soup kitchen, their parents might have the tendency to develop too much mendicancy and dependency towards the parish. Moreover, a dysfunctional consequence might occur among the children. While interacting and playing, some children, particularly the little kids, have the tendency to be easily irritated and “fight” the other kids. A social-conflict analysis of the soup kitchen program points out that the role of people in the program reflects one’s social standing. Those who volunteer by helping in the program clearly have a relatively higher social standing as compared to the participants or the recipients of the program. The social standing of the children manifested on their general appearance and the level of education they
The smaller children that were confined with their families seemed to be generally unaware of the hardships they were facing. Many enjoyed individuality and separation from their parents since they didn’t have to keep as close of an eye on the children. In the book, Jeanne notices that it was almost impossible to continue sitting her entire family at dinnertime, and this unfortunate change occurred in many other families as well. For the first year of their confinement, before there was a semi-structured school system, children did just about everything they could think of to pass the time. As anyone would expect...
... a dinner meal can become a luxury. Soup kitchens sometimes become overcrowded and unable to serve everyone in need. As a result, malnutrition is not uncommon among these underprivileged families.
Garbarino, J. (1992). Children and families in the social environment, New York, NY: Walter De Gruyter Inc.
After volunteering three times with the social action committee and high school group from Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church in the previous years, the Houston Food Bank became very familiar both in regards of their history and how their volunteerism works. The Houston Food Bank is a non-profit organization that seeks donations of non-perishable food items to serve the low-income families in eighteen counties across Texas. However, during a recent trip to the food bank with the University of Houston-Downtown College of Business, the interactions with a larger group of classmates became more dynamic. Three main topics involving group work at the Houston Food Bank are service learning, community service, and volunteerism. Service learning
Beneath the surface of orderliness and sameness in both communities lies an extensive network of social discipline. In The Giver, citizens are distributed spatially according to their stage of life. For example, the newborn children live together at the Nurturing Center, children and adults live together in families, and the oldest adults live together in the House of the Old. Also, the power structures control activities for a purpose to encourage those that are useful towards the society and those that are considered counterproductive. Therefore, children’s lives are tightly regulated by their defined jobs and participation in the...
...e school, such as; Pelotonia, Light the Night for leukemia and lymphoma, Franklin County Board of Developmental Disabilities, etc… For many of these organizations I have volunteered more than once. Volunteering at Light the Night has a story. For my 16th Birthday party, I wanted to have my friends and I volunteer in the day while having fun at night. So I had 7 boys and girls, along with me, volunteer for Light the Night, organized by me. The party was a huge success and a lot of fun. I look forward to organizing more volunteer opportunities for my friends and I.
Jezza Neumann wrote the article “America's Poor Kids” in order to acknowledge the fact that one should care for their children. First, Jezza Neumann highlights the shortcomings of families who have known a much better life have to leave their homes, sometimes with just a few days notice. Then, she introduces three children that suffer from a chronically stressed household and ask to give them their point of view. Next, the author points out how these kids should not go through being homeless and it is too stressful for them to develop normally. Finally, the author implies that one should help the weak children by telling them that they are loved and to comfort them when the going gets tough. Through the use of pathos and logos the author makes
Growing up I had always been asked the infamous question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?", and my answer had always been a shrug or a simple "I don 't know yet". If I was asked the same question now, I could confidently and very passionately say, "I want to be a doctor; a humanitarian who brings positive change in someone 's life.". It seems like a very general statement but I truly hope to one day become somebody who can use her expertise and profession to help others.
A hundred years later, Goerge Fredrick Still, a British child professor talked in his lectures about certain abnormal behavior in children’s. He expended on the description from Christen by ...
In the year 2015, around 40 million U.S. citizens were food insecure (Randall para. 3). Food insecurity can be defined in paragraph 3 by “[having] difficulty at some time during the year providing enough food for all their members due to a lack of resources. This 12.7% of American citizens also contains another group - children. Aged 10-17, 6.8 million adolescents struggle with a food insecurity. There have been several years of cuts to the social programs designed to help these people, along with the Great Recession continuing to leave an impact on the U.S. economy (para. 6). Under the Obama administration, $8.6 billion was cut from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as Food Stamps. From 1993-2001 under the Clinton administration, former President Bill Clinton’s administration “gutted the welfare system” (para. 15). Because of these budget cuts, the families who rely on food assistance from the government have been allotted less throughout the years. From a sociological perspective, the concepts of sociological imagination, class stratification, and social location are in effect when it comes to child hunger in the United States. Being hungry is an issue larger than any one individual can control.
Taking time to volunteer at the many nonprofit organizations, homeless shelters, advocacy centers, philanthropic fundraisers, local schools and child care facilities in the inner city is not always at the forefront of young people’s minds while navigating through their college experiences. But, with a little push from student organizations, local nonprofits and passionate individuals, volunteerism and community change can start to take a front seat and become not just an opportunity, but also a priority in the lives of young people.
I have always been involved in groups that perform community service projects. In fact, I was recently elected to as VP of Public Relations of the Student MOVE group. We are a group of 12 individuals that are the advisory committee for all of the community service organizations on campus, but we organize many alternative activities and events. I even did a service learning project for my Spanish class last semester with Cynthia Wells. I attended the Spanish mass every Sunday, and I was a greeter. I learned their culture and rituals while still attending the usual Catholic Mass.
One of the observations that takes place in the documentary is looking at conflict amongst the children. The group of four year olds find this difficult due to their developmental stage and there is more aggression and accretion showing. The group of five year olds are showing more socially complex behaviour but some struggled to regulate their emotions which caused a paucity of control. The g...
My church youth group has been a wonderful way to learn about community service. Seeing others who are disadvantaged, ill or needy has taught me the importance of caring for others and to be thankful for my own good health and stable family situation.
...interact with their caregivers and through interaction not only their cognitive abilities are shaped by also their personality and behaviour in later stage of their life (Triandis & Suh, 2002). The essay is considering the background that social relation flourishes, namely interaction child – adult and peer relations. Through their early experiences with others, children develop their understanding of the world. By simple activities that are carried out on daily basis between children and caregivers, children are able to gain the meaning of new techniques and learning strategies, they expand their existing knowledge and experience new things. The interesting aspect is to elaborate on social interaction within different groups of children. Although the cognitive abilities may not fully develop in every child, social interaction encourages and prompts the progress.