Project Unify Helping The Community

The mission of United Way of the Coastal Empire is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities. They improve lives by supporting nearly 100 community programs and services. They have programs and services in Bryan, Chatham, Effingham and Liberty counties. According to their website, “ Providing fundamentals to those in crisis has been and always will be at the core of our work, and our funded programs will continue to integrate basic human needs into our services to achieve meaningful outcomes for our community” (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.uwce.org/about-us.

Last May, I traveled with Alternative Breaks to New York for community service. During this service, I worked with Meals on Wheels who dedicate their time to provide food for the elderly of Manhattan. As I delivered the food to the seniors, I got a sense of fulfillment because I made them smile by providing them with food. Thus, I chose MDC’s Single Stop because I wanted to make a difference in my home campus by providing and assuring nourishment to those that do not have it just like I did in New York. As my first two years of college comes to an end, I wanted to leave a mark of my own here at home at Miami Dade College North Campus. During the month of September, I decided to partner up with a few of my peers to serve at MDC’s Single Stop.

It was the sense of community and fulfillment that I experienced at my previous high school’s Interact club which motivated me to found Mountain House High School Interact, the first and largest community service organization at my

I thoroughly enjoyed this portfolio. I am a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Pi Chi Chapter here at Stockton University. This was not only a campus activity with my chapter, and the Stockton Community, but it was an international community service project for the sorority in itself, which has over 283,000 members. The community service project included all members of the sorority to turn in 1 backpack to the sorority to be donated to children who were unable to receive school supplies, for whatever issue, where their parents were unable to afford school supplies. I was fortunate enough to see one of the schools that Alpha Kappa Alpha donated to which was a school in Camden, and which is a place where poverty is extremely high. To turn in my backpack, my chapter and I attended North Atlantic Regional Round-Up where about 400 backpacks were collected and over 4,555 school supplies were collected. Not only did Alpha Kappa Alpha help increase the quality of a child’s education, but they donated in areas where poverty is also very high, so that students could have the resources that they needed to succeed in school, which made me feel like I

Special Olympics Play Unify is a program that brings together a variety of students with or without disabilities and allows them to train and play together in various sports or activities. It is important because it helps students develop leadership skills to create an overall respectful environment for all. It helps all types of students no matter if they have a disability or not feel welcomed by anyone and feel as people understand them. By placing people with or without disabilities is creates a sense of team building.

The project I have chosen for my leadership project is the East Cooper Community Outreach program. This program is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1989 to assist victims after Hurricane Hugo. East Cooper Community Outreach, also known as ECCO, offers assistance to the many people in Mount Pleasant living at the poverty level, also known as the “working poor.” ECCO is vital to the community and we will learn about this organization’s origin and the significant ways it has contributed to the residents of East Cooper.

In the HLTH 305: Community Development and Engagement in Public Health course at the University of Waterloo, the final project consisted of an intervention where we had design and implement a community based activity. With this, my team and I faced a variety of obstacles in order to produce an intervention for students at the University of Waterloo. This project had multiple parts that had to be completed in order for the intervention to be a success; thus demonstrating teamwork skills will allow for successful and smoothly planned intervention in regards to the stigma surrounding homelessness in the KW region and in general. The major parts of this intervention that was focused on by our team was bringing in a guest speaker in from a homelessness

Creating an individual service project has allowed me to add depth to my high school career and provide an opportunity for my school to reach out to the globe. To help my school continue this outreach, I plan to pass this project along to an under class man who is interested in continuing this successful program. Helping individuals prepare for emergencies, build a secure financial background, and protect the environment around them are just a few successes the Beta Club has helped launch and there will be many more in the

I have the privilege of being involved with such an impactful organization. While helping, youth developed lifestyle skills, I’m also developing skills. Each year I form some amazing relationships that create lifelong friendships. Excitedly each encounter with the youth helps build my belief on why it’s important to help others along my journey. Therefore, being involved with this organization has transform and impacted

As a coordinator, I help to facilitate monthly workshops which center around academic advisement, health disparities and the development of community-based projects in which our students could provide a service to our neighborhood. Partnerships for Progress reminds me that in order to increase the standards of living in underserved areas, it requires the work of many and continual encouragement. If accepted into the PCLP program, I will gain insight into the challenges associated with lack of healthcare access, but I will also receive tools that will allow me to join in the removal of these

By participating in this service project, I have learned that it is important to take part in activities that benefit

Everyone has their own set of strengths and weaknesses. Those with disabilities are no different they just have a different set then everyone else. I chose this project topic because in 5th and 6th grade I was part of a program called Peer Pals. Once a week during recess I volunteered in a special needs classroom. This work opened my eyes to the world of special needs and Peer Pals is one of the things I miss about elementary school. I realized that I needed to continue helping the special needs community. No solutions presented themselves and then one day the solution stared me in the face from it’s home in the Reston Community Center Program Guide. “Volunteer at the Adapted Aquatics Class,” I had found a solution to my problem.

The One Roof Community Community Centre (ORCC) is a program associated with the Warming Room Community Ministries in Peterborough, Ontario. A meal is served twice a day during the week, and once a day on weekends (Warming Room Community Ministries, 2017). The building is also open for drop-in hours from 12-7, providing a warm place to stay during the afternoon. The Warming Room Community Ministries number one goal is to “work toward God’s dream of justice, peace and love in the City of Peterborough by meeting immediate needs, breaking down barriers that exist in the community and advocating for systemic change.” (Warming Room Community Ministries, 2017).

By bringing together organizations and individuals, we are will be able to produce sustainable and measurable impact upon community

It has always been close to my heart to help others who are in need; therefore, I chose to volunteer my time toward helping to make Project Backpack a success. Some time ago I chose to join the Project Backpack team in order to help under privileged school kids. Project Backpack is a project where members go out and buy items that children need in order to make it through school. Some items that were purchased to fill backpacks were school supplies, such as notebooks, pencils and pens, crayons, and other school essentials. We also would get personal items for the children, such as toothpaste and toothbrushes, shampoo, body wash, and deodorant. Then we might even get a few toys, such as cards, football, or another small toy. We chose to do that because we realized that we were giving these backpacks to children who are under privileged and they may not have many toys, and it is just a way to make the backpack more comforting to the children.