Personal Statement

Creating Sustainable Occupations in Poverty-Ridden India I am extremely interested in applying for your three-week-travel grant. I would love to work with your company, Volunteer & Explore Abroad, on a trip to help impoverished people in the rural areas outside of Bihar, India. My main goal of this trip is to teach families in rural communities how to raise crops and make small trinkets that can be sold in town. I think that this is an achievable goal in the three week span I would be given. Upon returning home, I plan to tell local churches and schools about this trip as well as recruit others to go back to Bihar with me in the future. My long-term goal is to create an annual trip back to the rural communities to volunteer until the families

As part of ENACTUS (a community of student, academic, and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world), I understand the power behind the word “sustainable” ("Enactus | Our Story”). I plan to go back to the same villages multiple times. I want to be a face that these people recognize and expect to see at least once a year. However, I also know that people need to learn how to handle skills on their own. Upon returning to both the city of Lakeland, FL and the city of Decatur, IL I will be presenting the work I have done to family, friends, churches, small groups, local schools, etc. in hopes of inspiring them to join me in the future. I plan to implement an annual trip to villages in rural Bihar helping each one at a time. I believe that having a personal connection with people is extremely important as well so I would like to send letters to the villages and eventually have the volunteers that go with me to do the