A Worthy Cause

Andrea Lancianese

For the  service-learning project, I attended the New York care project “Wrap Christmas Toys for Children” from 1PM to 3PM on Friday 11.11. The project manager gave us small toys to wrap and put in some boxes in order to help the charity organization. The assignment was pretty easy, but I think that what was worth it was the value of it.         

The Experience

This experience helped me understand how small actions can make big changes for people less fortunate than us and how easily you can make a person happy. I want to mention the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which says:” All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”(Human declaration of human rights, 1). I decided to mention this article because it represents everything my project was about, helping each other in a sense of brotherhood and also this article says that everybody has the right to be born free and equal in dignity and rights. I think that in order to make that possible, I had to give something to the society for the luck that it gives to me. That’s why I want to thank New York Care because I think it is thanks to these organizations  if the world is a better place and if unlike people have the chance to be happy too. In second place I want to mention this quote: “what is the most valuable currency that will move a critical agenda forward in your company or organization?”(Natalye Paquin, 3) Fellows, which included CEOs, executive directors and other C-suite leaders, took their best guesses – money, power, position, influence – but none were correct. The greatest currency? Trust and respect, she shared. That is the currency that moves civilizations” because I think that’s true, our greatest currency is trust and respect. If we respect each other the world is going to be a better place because it’s always a matter of trust. Also, during my experience, I could understand people like them want to have our respect and they will always have mine and to show them my respect, I decided to attend that charity project. For every toy I was wrapping, I was thinking of a happier kid during Christmas holidays and that was making me proud of myself. I want to thank the class and St. Francis college that allow us to do these experiences because they make you feel better. And most of the time if you don’t have anybody telling you to do these things, you don’t think about how easy it is to make a person or a kid happier in my case. One of my future goals is going to be to share as much as possible my experience in order to make others understand how important charity is and what are the feelings after you do it. Already in the past I attended a few charity projects but now that I moved to New York, I lost a little bit of the frequency but now that I found out about New York Cares, I will be more active.

References

Paquin, N. (2019, May 28). Trust & Respect: The World's greatest currency. Points of Light. Retrieved December 8, 2022, from https://www.pointsoflight.org/blog/trust-respect-greatest-currency-world/.

Steger, M. (2020). Globalization: A very short introduction, Oxford University Press.

United Nations. (n.d.). Universal declaration of human rights. United Nations. Retrieved December 8, 2022, from https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights.