Freshman Seminar Fall 17 DTD

Blog Post 1 – Student Life

The club I visited was UNICEF. Initially, I didn’t know much about the club nor the organization, although I saw the UNICEF tags on soccer team jerseys or banners. UNICEF stands for United Nation International Children’s Emergency Fund and they advocate and fundraise toward helping children across the countries in education, protection and child survival. In Baruch, UNICEF club fundraises money for the actual program and work with UNICEF to plan events. Last year, the team went to the UNICEF headquarters to gain more insight of what UNICEF does. At Baruch, the club does bake sale to raise money to help those unprivileged children in other countries. While my time at the meeting, they wanted everybody to engage with others with their fun activities. First, we watched a video of UNICEF going to countries and helping children to get clean water and providing education that brought tears to the viewers. Seeing children stand in line to get clean water or going to classes where they are being taught outside without a roof made me feel sympathetic. Then, we played ice breakers and bingo and found out interesting things about each other. This club made me realize that there is something we can do help others outside of obtaining our degree. It helped us to feel empowered. Everybody had fun and asked questions afterwards. At the end of the day, we are the next generation and we can change the world. If we look around the world, many influencer put their efforts to help others outside of their work or career. Life is not all about attaining your dream job. It is also helping others to become successful especially those who are unable to get education. I love the initiatives the schools are taking and promoting to help for good cause. Members of the club love what they do and makes them feel accomplished for taking such initiative.

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