Hope.

This is what was happening on the Rollins Campus today. Change This World, non profit organization based out of right here in Orlando with a heart for serving. Right now, partnered with Kids Against Hunger they have been able to send over 500,000 meals to Haiti for earthquake relief to feed those who are malnourished. With their recent goal of feeding the hungry, it was brought to Rollins and were able to package 5,000 meals with the help of fellow students and volunteers. 

I only write this on the blog for this sake: This is the reason I am doing this class also. The people in Haiti have a certain need. They are in a place of hopelessness and it has been a goal to bring them hope. This class is working with people who struggle with their voice (though it can be somewhat literal in this case, I mean this metaphorically). They are not so different in my heart-These people that we are working with have had something stolen from them, though globally it's not as catastrophic as an earthquake, to them it is life. I want them to see a hope that may not have been able to be seen before. I want to bring a light into their life. Even outside of the client I am working with, I have seen during group discussions the frustration on some of the other client's faces and it hurts me every single time. But I want them to know that we, as a class, are there to bring them hope and to SHOW them the power that a single image can have. I want them to know how much more powerful it is when they are the one to take a picture and I want them to be excited because so many things are able to be expressed with what they have captured.