Hope Youth Corps- Bahamas

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Carrie B

Beaverton, OR

  • people helped100
  • People Doing It 30

The Problem

The organization that I worked with over this past summer is called Hope WorldWide, and the whole problem that this organization really focusses on is the hopelessness that goes along with being in poverty. We tried to attack this problem in many different ways this summer when thirty other teenagers,and I went to Nassau, Bahamas. We worked with the elderly, with childeren, people with AID's. We cleaned a ton of places and tried to reach out to people in need. The problem with this particular project is that, when people hear about the Bahamas, they automatically think,"vacation" but they are so ignorant to what is going on beyond Paradise Island (pretty much the only place that people go when they visit). There is a ton of help needed in Nassau, and we were there to realize and give that help to the Bahamians.

Plan of Action

I plan to continue to get involved with HYC every summer and help with basically really promoting HOPE worldwide and doing fundraisers. My church has come up with multiple different projects through out the year through HOPE. For example this past year we did Hoops For Hope, in which 24 men were sponsered to play basketball for 12 hours straight. That project raised ended up with about twenty-eight thousand dollars raised. All that money was sent to the hospital in Cambodia. Projects like that are what I plan on getting involved with. And I plan to return in the near future to the Bahamas and continue to serve my stinkin' heart out! "DO HARD THINGS" that's my new motto.
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Homelessness and Poverty

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