“To give real service you must add something which cannot be
bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.” - Douglas
Adams.
The gifts that I bought may be able to be measured by money but I don’t
believe that someone can measure the value of these gifts to these people who
really need it.
There is no money value
to seeing someone who may not have a blanket open one and be so happy about it,
that is priceless to me. While yes, the
towels, gift cars, and blanket can all be measured in money value, their usage
by these special people can never be measured
For my service project I chose to
donate two new large bath towels, a Walmart gift card and one blanket to the
retired veterans of veterans village.
I chose this project not because it sounded
like the easiest to get by but because these small essentials can mean so much
to people who have almost next nothing to for Christmas.
These veterans who are obviously very
deserving of all of these things and shouldn’t even have to worry about getting
them may not even have these essentials.
No one should be live like that and especially people who fought for our
freedom. I chose to do this project
because in high school my whole school did something we called a wrap in. Every grade in the school was assigned a
different age group where you would get gifts corresponding with what age group
you were assigned. These gifts would go
to low income families around our school that couldn’t afford gifts for their
kids for the holidays. I felt that if
the veterans of our country are in jeopardy of not getting anything than that’s
something I want to help with. I loved
doing the wrap in every year because the parents of the families would write
back thank-you notes saying how thankful they were to us and that really makes
someone feel good about what they did.
Even if they didn’t do that we knew that we were helping a good cause
and making kids and their parents happy at the holidays where everyone should
be happy. I feel like these veterans who
may not having any family looking out for them anymore will really appreciate
these gifts because although they are not elaborate gifts, they are essentials
to everyday living and that is what they truly need. When I first read the list
of gifts that we could buy I was confused because that’s something someone
usually asks for but then I realized that these people may not have these or
they do but they are in bad condition.
That is really sad to think about because these people risked our lives
for us and now they have no family and little supplies and their
facilities. I think these people will
benefit greatly from these gifts and have a happier holidays because of it. I
believe that my core value is caring for people and I believe that these gifts will
help these people be cared for and live a little bit easier life than they
are. It will be also give them a happier
holiday season knowing that someone was thinking about them when they thought
that no one was.
