In Tanzania
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103308152
COMM 2020
To Make Difference
Dr. Supriya Karudapuram
What idea that first appears into your mind when you see “ 9292 ”? 9000 years after now? Or flight altitude of a jet plane? For me it means the distance. The distance from the east coast of Pacific Ocean to the west coast of Indian Ocean, the distant from the capital of China to one of the poorest country in this world. Tanzania, a small African country with only 44 million populations and more than 3 million orphans. This essay is about how a Chinese student helps those homeless children 9292 km far away from him. This essay is about love and change. Omar is a Chinese student, he spent his first two college years in ICB, and now he transferred to University of Michigan for his rest two undergraduate years. We know each other well because of the Mr. Smith’s martial art class. He is my elder Kong Fu brother (at least we call each other in this way) and we have really happy training memories during last whole year. Omar is a nice guy, as my (Kong Fu) brother, he helped me a lot in training. Actually I was not surprised when I heard he went to Africa to be a volunteer because I knew he was a worm heart man. But I was shocked after he told me his stories in Tanzania. He said those memories will influence his whole life. And now, I will tell those stories to you. As I mentioned before, Tanzania’s population is about 44 million and more than 3 million of them are orphans. Babies are abandoned in hospital, churches, bus stations or even on street. There is only one public orphanage with many illegal "private orphanages", what they do is just using these children as tools to make money, torture and let them to beg on street, corrupt international/domestic donation and throw kids away after they matured. So Omar thought maybe they could do something to help to stop this phenomenon and find a way to support orphans to live in a sustainable environment, go to school and change their
103308152
COMM 2020
To Make Difference
Dr. Supriya Karudapuram
What idea that first appears into your mind when you see “ 9292 ”? 9000 years after now? Or flight altitude of a jet plane? For me it means the distance. The distance from the east coast of Pacific Ocean to the west coast of Indian Ocean, the distant from the capital of China to one of the poorest country in this world. Tanzania, a small African country with only 44 million populations and more than 3 million orphans. This essay is about how a Chinese student helps those homeless children 9292 km far away from him. This essay is about love and change. Omar is a Chinese student, he spent his first two college years in ICB, and now he transferred to University of Michigan for his rest two undergraduate years. We know each other well because of the Mr. Smith’s martial art class. He is my elder Kong Fu brother (at least we call each other in this way) and we have really happy training memories during last whole year. Omar is a nice guy, as my (Kong Fu) brother, he helped me a lot in training. Actually I was not surprised when I heard he went to Africa to be a volunteer because I knew he was a worm heart man. But I was shocked after he told me his stories in Tanzania. He said those memories will influence his whole life. And now, I will tell those stories to you. As I mentioned before, Tanzania’s population is about 44 million and more than 3 million of them are orphans. Babies are abandoned in hospital, churches, bus stations or even on street. There is only one public orphanage with many illegal "private orphanages", what they do is just using these children as tools to make money, torture and let them to beg on street, corrupt international/domestic donation and throw kids away after they matured. So Omar thought maybe they could do something to help to stop this phenomenon and find a way to support orphans to live in a sustainable environment, go to school and change their
Cited: Stevenson, Nick. Cultural Citizenship. www.openup.co.uk. Web. 2003.