If you’re not making someone else’s life better, then you’re wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.” –Will Smith. If I could put my exact thoughts and life actions into a quote the one above would be just that. Something I truly believe in and live by is making another persons life better. I have always wanted to “just help people”, I want someone’s life to be better because of me; I want to make an impact. My project this semester, U-Fit, allows me to do just that: make an impact. U-Fit is a program that works with children with disabilities and their siblings. This semester I have been paired with an amazing little boy named Dylan Carbine. Dylan, who is hard of hearing, is this lively and ambitious …show more content…
This means every child needs a different type of attention, no child is the same within this program and that’s what makes it special. The way I part take in activities with Dylan is different from the way I would part take in an activity with severely mentally handicap child. Being able to properly recognize and accommodate the differences within disabilities is extremely important, especially when focusing on health. With different disabilities comes different health risks, and it’s important to be aware of these differences when providing health. I think that’s important when focusing on community health, the realization that no one person is the same. This class has helped me realize there’s a lot more to people and situations than what meets the eye and there’s always more than one solution, that’s exactly what U-Fit has taught me too. Through U-Fit I’ve had to come up with solutions to a problem with the children I work with. Sometimes when focusing on health we run into problems and we have to figure out a way to re-present the information, and that’s exactly what I have to do in U-Fit. I have to recognize a weakness and be able to present a solution in an appealing