Essay On Cancer Free Kids
To begin, I’ve never had cancer, but cancer has impacted my life in a huge way. Cancer Free Kids is a non profit organization, that raises money through many different large projects for Pediatric Cancer Research. Cancer Free Kids has held 97 projects raising over 3 million dollars for Pediatric Cancer Research. I got involved with Cancer Free Kids during a project held every year for the past 4 years called Night 4 The Fight. We raised 200,000 dollars that night alone.
Growing up you learn about all the bad diseases in the world, how you should wash your hands to avoid contracting diseases and so on and so forth. The older I got the more I learned about the diseases you can get without even knowing or without being able to prevent. My Sophomore year of High School is when is all really started to click for me. I started to realize what a negative impact cancer has on so many people and families all around the world. As part of the Community Service Club, I did research trying to find projects that dealt with cancer research. In doing this it …show more content…
slowly started to change my perception of cancer, instead of looking at cancer in a dreary, negative, awful manner. I started to look at the positive side of how to overcome this awful disease. This changed my choices on which projects I voted for our school to participate in, I wanted the ones that raised money for Cancer Research.
By now, my Senior year I gone through the past 3 years helping plan different community service projects, some dealing with cancer research, others dealing with feeding hungry kids in 3rd world countries.
Doing all these different projects throughout the past 3 years really changed the outlook I have a Community Service and giving back for the rest of my life. I’m going to be honest, graduating from High School and then from College into the real world. I wouldn't have thought a whole lot of giving back and participating in Community Service as an adult. I know many people that don’t give back, although that isn’t a bad thing and this doesn’t make them awful people either. But knowing what I know now, I plan to not only give back money to held fund cancer research, but give back my time and efforts to different projects that are planned throughout my life. I hope to also plan projects of my own as a I grow as a
person.
I encourage anyone who is curious about community service and how to start to put themselves out there and get in contact with different groups to volunteer or to donate money. People will be more than willing to help you find a group or an organization regardless of what you are trying to do. Whether or not you’ve had cancer, never had it, or know someone who has had it. Cancer impacts our lives everyday whether you know it or not. It’s what we do about it, that defines us.
Growing up you learn about all the bad diseases in the world, how you should wash your hands to avoid contracting diseases and so on and so forth. The older I got the more I learned about the diseases you can get without even knowing or without being able to prevent. My Sophomore year of High School is when is all really started to click for me. I started to realize what a negative impact cancer has on so many people and families all around the world. As part of the Community Service Club, I did research trying to find projects that dealt with cancer research. In doing this it …show more content…
slowly started to change my perception of cancer, instead of looking at cancer in a dreary, negative, awful manner. I started to look at the positive side of how to overcome this awful disease. This changed my choices on which projects I voted for our school to participate in, I wanted the ones that raised money for Cancer Research.
By now, my Senior year I gone through the past 3 years helping plan different community service projects, some dealing with cancer research, others dealing with feeding hungry kids in 3rd world countries.
Doing all these different projects throughout the past 3 years really changed the outlook I have a Community Service and giving back for the rest of my life. I’m going to be honest, graduating from High School and then from College into the real world. I wouldn't have thought a whole lot of giving back and participating in Community Service as an adult. I know many people that don’t give back, although that isn’t a bad thing and this doesn’t make them awful people either. But knowing what I know now, I plan to not only give back money to held fund cancer research, but give back my time and efforts to different projects that are planned throughout my life. I hope to also plan projects of my own as a I grow as a
person.
I encourage anyone who is curious about community service and how to start to put themselves out there and get in contact with different groups to volunteer or to donate money. People will be more than willing to help you find a group or an organization regardless of what you are trying to do. Whether or not you’ve had cancer, never had it, or know someone who has had it. Cancer impacts our lives everyday whether you know it or not. It’s what we do about it, that defines us.