Assignment #2 - What does service mean to me? This is a concept that I have been considering in great detail. I have always loved doing community service and giving back to the community. However, I never thought of what my life would be like without community service. The definition of service based on the Oxford dictionary: "The action of helping or doing work for someone." I agree with this definition of service, the only thing that I would add is that service should be done with no alternative motives. However in many cases, this is not the case, people do service to help them look better or to improve their resume. In my case service means a lot to me because I remember when my community building me into the person I am today. I want to give back to my community because someone helped me. Service to me is giving back to someone else so they can to …show more content…
For like my mom always says if you educate a guy you educate an individual, whereas if you educated a girl she brings the education back to the family. That is I want to do, in under privilege area to slow help the community to become stronger. To take this dream one step farther I hope to start a mentoring organization and scholarship to help girls to go off school. I hope through this program that young women have a role model to see the different fields they can enter into. For not everyone gets to here at home that they can do anything or all the opportunity that is out there in the world. In all, I can say that service learning has helped to shape me into a person that I am today and continues to makes me a better person. Service to me is a way of life and I can't image my life without service. I feel deeply indebted to the people who took the time to help me to grow into the leader I am today. Now I spend my days trying to give back to my community the way someone did for