Appalachian Service Project Reflection Paper

This summer I took a trip with my church to the Appalachian mountains on a service project. The trip was through an organization called the ASP or Appalachian Service Project. The goal of this organization is to make homes dryer, safer and warmer for people in need of better living conditions. Durring my trip there we helped a family with four children all under the age of four. They had electricy but they did not have suffiecent running water. As the week progressed my team of people from my church helped fix the house. We helped this family close a hole in the side of their house made from the previous winter, we helped fix the stairs up the side of the mountain to their house and we gave their plumbing system back to them. All of the things we did made their house safer to live in. The hole that was fixed in the side of the house would cut down the amount of money the family would have to spend on keeping the house warm in the winter, The stairs we built gave them access to their house without the change of slipping down the side of the mountain. The plumbing was fixed and we were able
We learned how people in the poverty lived. This learning experienced opened up new opportunities and chances to help people in need, Lots of people all over the world are in poverty and have a difficult time finding jobs. These people have families they need to care for, however if they do not even have a sufficient home that can keep them safe, it is very difficult to do this. This experience was meaningful to me in the sense that there are people like me that are fortunate to have a safe home and live a life where I have two parents that have jobs and care for me. Not everyone has that. This learning experience has made me strive to do more for my community and the rest of society by helping those in need in any way possible. Even if it is something as simple as helping at a soup kitchen or pantry, every little bit