Dearborn Reflection
During eighth grade, I was contacted by the University of Michigan Dearborn SIFE program. I was challenged to come up with a product used by students that needed to be improved. SIFE used my idea and it brought me into the U of M family. For two years, they used this project and I was heavily involved in it. I attended summer programs, meetings and planning committees. After that two years passed, it was declared that the SIFE program was dissipating and along with it the community service opportunity. I did not want to lose this so with the help of the UMich faculty, a year later, I was matched with the Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity. From there, we tried implementing the same program that had worked with SIFE. Although it worked, I did not see the summer program participants gaining much from it because most of it had to do with things such
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Each year, UM Dearborn hosts a community service project on Martin Luther King day. This year, the organization that we helped was called …………… It is an organization dedicated to helping children who have been abused. After an abused child has been taken into governmental protection, they are first taken to the hospital where they are assessed for mental, physical and sexual abuse. They are told to remove their clothes and are wrapped in a white sheet to wait for their doctors. It can be a cruel and humiliating process. ……………………. Creates blankets that are delivered to the hospitals where these children are assessed. Instead of being wrapped in the white sheet, they are able to look through the drawer of blankets and choose whichever one they would like. This helps them to feel more comfortable during the examination. Additionally, when the child is removed from their home, most of the time they are unable to bring anything with them. The blanket that they choose becomes theirs and having something of your own is also very
Each year, UM Dearborn hosts a community service project on Martin Luther King day. This year, the organization that we helped was called …………… It is an organization dedicated to helping children who have been abused. After an abused child has been taken into governmental protection, they are first taken to the hospital where they are assessed for mental, physical and sexual abuse. They are told to remove their clothes and are wrapped in a white sheet to wait for their doctors. It can be a cruel and humiliating process. ……………………. Creates blankets that are delivered to the hospitals where these children are assessed. Instead of being wrapped in the white sheet, they are able to look through the drawer of blankets and choose whichever one they would like. This helps them to feel more comfortable during the examination. Additionally, when the child is removed from their home, most of the time they are unable to bring anything with them. The blanket that they choose becomes theirs and having something of your own is also very