AMH 2020 student*
“Help others and give something
back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the
lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new
meaning it will bring your own life.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger
For my service project, I signed up
to bring a couple pounds of pulled pork with BBQ sauce to serve to veterans in
need at the Veterans’ Village. My professor, Dr. Soldani, organized the service
project with Veterans’ Village I already had a bunch of pulled pork in my
freezer for the semester, so I heated it up, which was surprisingly hard
because it was very frozen, and then I got some barbecue sauce to mix in with
it. I brought the pulled pork to the Veterans’ Village and helped to serve the
veterans who were getting out of a rough spot. We gave them pork, chicken,
salad, sides, sodas, and dessert. It was sad to see how many veterans were
homeless or in need of shelter, and that’s only a few of them in Tallahassee.
It’s absolutely terrible that our government doesn’t take care of its veterans
by reforming the VA or giving added benefits. Our veterans fought for us, the
least we can do is make sure they don’t go homeless in the first place!
I’m a Christian, so I like to help
people in need in order to share Christ’s love. In the Bible it says, “Each of
you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful
stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 1 Peter 4:10” I feel like my gift
is in the medical field. So I am going to try to become an ER Doctor. I’m
majoring in Exercise Physiology for Pre-Med and I am also training to become an
Army Combat Medic along with ROTC to become an Army Doctor after that. So in my
profession I’ll be trained to help people and be exercising that on a daily
basis. My dad is a very serving oriented person and so growing up I learned it
is important to help those in need. It’s good to get practice helping people in
all aspects of life so that it comes naturally.
I volunteered for this project
because it included veterans, which I care deeply about, and it was serving
food which is pretty fun. Hopefully veterans will see that we are helping them
and decide to go out of their way to help others. For all I know someone I help
could be going through a hard time and this could have been the thing that got
him or her through it by changing their outlook on life. I enjoyed doing this
service project.
