Volunteer Scholarship Essay

I believe everyone should use the energy and opportunities they are blessed with every single day to impact everything around them in a positive way. Volunteering is my way of putting this belief into action. I volunteer to make a difference, to utilize my energy for good, and to right the wrongs. The past three years of my life have been absolutely hectic and my community service efforts have helped me through every moment of it.

When I was 13 years old, and a month away from starting high school, my father had a brain hemorrhage. This horrific event caused him to lose his vision, his job and his license. Watching my loving, hard-working father crumble at my very eyes was a painful experience and still hurts me today. I wouldn’t wish a tragedy

The gratitude I have towards every individual who worked to save my father’s life can never be properly express nor repaid but I have made it my greatest priority to return this tremendous favor. Volunteering has served as the most effective medium in fulfilling this reciprocation.

After I finally had the ability to drive in the summer of 2014 I began my community service efforts. I signed up to volunteer for my local hospital, which was beginning its first annual youth volunteer program. Since then, I’ve devoted many hours of my time to four different areas in this hospital, all of which have a place in my heart. I started my volunteering at it’s diabetes center where I organized and filed hundreds of diabetic patients' charts and patients prescriptions, and set up hundreds of A1C cartridges

My mother was screaming at the absolute top of her lungs, whaling endlessly, “my father, my father.” I didn’t even have to rise from my bed to accept what happened; my grandfather in Pakistan, whom I’ve never had the opportunity to meet, had passed away through unexpectedly from an unknown condition. This loss struck me very hard and hurt me deeply. I dreamt my entire life to be at a point financially where I could bring my grandfather to America and provide him with the best health care that money could buy and give him a nice home he could live in for the rest of his life, happily. I personally feel that I’ve failed