180 Project Youth

Poverty, Starvation, Abuse. These are all very important issues within the world we inhabit, but the quality in which one lives? That just might be the most important issue of all. Without hope and love, what do we have? What do the starving kids of Africa have if not hope and love? If they are abandoned, naked, left for dead in a strange land they call their own, what then? What do they have if nothing else? I became involved with 180 Project Youth in the fall of 2007, my freshman year of high school. I have been impacted by the phenomenal founders of this organization, and now I continue to impact others. 180 Project Youth is not money based, the people involved are not involved for the popularity. 180 Project Youth is Love based. It's amazing how much difference love can make in a person's life, especially if they have never experienced it before. I had never known love. I didn't know the extent to which you could love, and be loved. I didn't know people cared about me, I didn't know people could. I shared these feelings with many others my age, some older, some younger. When I met the founders of this organization, Scott and April Murchison, I realized that I could love more deeply than I ever though possible, that others could love me just as deeply, and that love is the most important thing of all. I can only hope that I can share the unconditional love I have received through this organization with those that haven't found it yet. 180 Project Youth may not seem global or life-changing because of the number or rate at which people are being helped, or the lack of a way to measure the amount of love one contains, feels, and returns. I cannot measure the change in ones life after they’ve been exposed to love, and have given it themselves. I cannot measure these things, but 180 Project Youth is changing the world. Piece by piece, youth by youth, love after love, we are changing the world.