Essay ‘How have you Impacted your Community?’

Many people see it as a responsibility to help out the community. Others see it as a waste of time. I would love to make my community better. The first thing I think would be a good outcome to do in my community is have everyone in the community give me feedback on what they think needs improvement. There are going to be multiple things that my community would want improvement in, but the most votes on something would be the things I try my best to improve. This would make everyone feel good because I’m asking for everyone’s opinion, everyone get to have a voice in the community.This influence self esteem, team work, leadership skills and confidence. In doing this, I am giving back to my community and making it a better place.Volunteering is important, also an important part of being a member of a community because it not only helps individuals but aids the community as a whole. It allows people to know that they will have support in the community when they go through difficult times. You see, being apart of a community also means that I must support my neighbors and do whatever I can to improve their situation.To me, it is important for teens to get more involved in community. I think it would be a good thing for more teens to consider helping our elderly. By helping out elderly you can find out a lot because they’ve been in the community way longer than us teens and can give of some of the best feedback because maybe nothing hadn’t been changed and their the ones to witness it.

In my community, a great fit to me would be me having a food pantry to single parents, children, homeless people, and also the elderly. I’ve been in my community for eighteen years and I’ve only seen a couple food pantries; the lines where very long and it seem like everyone was interested.The local food pantry helps people who are having a financial problems. People may have lost their job, or had a medical emergency, or their car may have broken down.In most of these situations, the food pantry helps the people who are needy or who are poor and need some help getting food. Going hungry for a long period of time will change a person completely. More than seventy percent of people go hungry in the world. Going hungry for a certain period of time damages your mental and physical, health. When it dames your mental health it causes you to have negative thoughts about things. Going hungry also changes your physical health, it causes you to lose weight and it will mess up your respiratory system. Where would I get food for this food pantry? I would have four sources of where they get their food. The four sources would be food drives, food rescues, food banks, and purchase some of my own food and even snacks. I wouldn’t just be giving food, I will have a talk with everyone in the line making my way to introduce myself and letting my community know that I’m here and we’re all in this together! 

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