Giving Back To My Community :: Contribution to My Community

My plan after college is to become a Sociologist or a Social Worker. With a college degree in one of these areas, I wish to impact my community in various ways. First, with the knowledge obtained from college, I trust to counsel with young spate who are on the verge of overtaking astray. In todays society, there are so many a(prenominal) negative factors that twine young people. I want to help them make the importance of background signal goals and striving to become productive citizens. I also want to fuddle them a sense of hope that with perseverance, they can become great subroutine models for other young people. Secondly, I have been a community tender worker for several years. Being a community volunteer has helped me to understand that by obtaining a college degree, I can help impact the lives of many homeless individuals. Recently, as a volunteer of United Methodist resistance Ministries, many of the homeless individuals were amazed that I am almost consummate with high school and plan to go to college. One man that I had the opportunity of meeting saddened me because he could not even write his take in name. I thought about how his life is forever impaired by his inability to read and write. Perhaps that is one reason he is economically poor. My relationships to persons such as this man have inspired me to want to expect my formal education so that I can help people who have somehow seemed to have lost their way. Also, a college degree as a Sociologist or a Social Worker will hire me to become engaged in the lives of people, many who are socially, mentally and economically disadvantaged.