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In early April, 34 Chinese environmental NGOs wrote letters to 29 IT companies regarding members of their supply chains violating Chinese environmental laws and regulations. The list included suppliers for global brands like Apple, IBM, Intel, Sony and Lenova. Ten days of mostly silence on the part of these companies led to a press conference that attracted widesp...

                  I sat in my classroom. I was a sophomore in high school, and the service learning coordinator of my school had come in to talk about the service project that my current class would be embarking on following year. I was expecting a couple hours of community service here and ...

  Prompt 2 : Why is community service important in your life? I always wondered about them. Huddling beneath the eaves of skyscrapers, they are a permanent fixture in the urban landscape. They are nomads. They herd recyclable glass and plastics, wander the asphalt plains of the city. For many, they embody failure. As I stroll through urban streets, I hear parents sp...

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A childhood experience left me with a soft spot for stray animals. About nine years ago, I had a family cat with black fur and sparkling green eyes. She had been a stray until a woman picked her up and gave her a home. The woman was a close friend of my mother’s, and when she was dying of cancer, she entrusted Jenny, her cat, over to my parents. As a newborn, Jenny was t...

Prompt 1: Please share a volunteer experience and its impact on your life.   To lend a hand, to help those in need, it brings us together and defines humanity. I began volunteering during middle school, embarrassingly not by choice, but by the strong persuasion of my parents. They were refugees once and experienced many devastating situations, but ...

  My Volunteer Experience Annessa Argabright               Volunteering has impacted my life by allowing me the opportunity to teach children and adults about God’s creation and nature. This teaching took on different venues such as; animal handling at the Dallas Zoo and working at my family’s Crea...

              I step into their classroom daily and am instantly greeted with the warm and caring environment which engulfs me. My presence does not go unnoticed and I am greeted by one of the students with a welcoming, “Hello!” I become instantaneously part of their community. This community is...

During a volunteer shift at a local camp for autistic children, I was confronted with a problem that is all too familiar to most charity organizations: a shortage of volunteers. With very few volunteers that shift, we were struggling to keep up with the dozens of kids attending the camp. Having witnessed the giving hearts of the people in the community on many occasions bef...