The Story

When I was 15 years old I went on my first humanitarian relief trip.  At that time I went to San Luis, Mexico, where I stayed on an orphanage compound.  The trip actions also entailed bringing food to local shut-in community members, aiding and assisting for a day in a home for the blind, and bringing food to those living in a local garbage dump.  The next year at 16 years I attended the exact same trip to San Luis.  Two years after that at 18 years old I lived for the duration of a summer in an orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. There I worked with the girls who live at the home, and worked as their summer activities coordinator.  The following year I attended a trip to Honduras.  For this trip I worked with C.A.R.E. (Central American Relief Efforts), setting up local medical clinics in Southern Honduras.  I was trained in very basic medical procedures including taking blood pressure, giving a simple eye exam, and pulling teeth.  At 20 years old I then created my own trip where I led a team back to Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.  Where the team put on a Biblical Dance Camp.  The girls got to learn technique and movement as well as instruction in being a Godly woman.  These experiences have allowed me to have a very unique exposure to the need of education in our world.  I have been able to work with some of the poorest in the world, and through that I have seen the extreme need for education.  Education has the ability to offer a tangible hope to students around the world, hope at a future and better life.  It has the power to open up doors to children that cannot be open by anything else in the world.  I want to instill in my students especially within the states a love and appreciation for learning.