Commencing, to help advocate for EmpowerAndHelp Global Challenge I helped create one of the posters being used at the Voyagers school. Continuing, being one of the first Ambassadors, I helped launch the Homework Help program for Casa Freehold. The Homework help program strives towards reinforcing children’s understanding of the material they are currently learning. Since I am bilingual, I can easily communicate with students who are not fully fluent in English. For example, I have helped two children by going over some learning subjects that they needed more guidance on by using a slide show and a dry erase board to physically outline the topics being learned. While being at Casa Freehold, I also helped organize canned food on shelves which was shipped to refugee camps in Syria. I also created a fundraiser to help collect money from outside organizations that I pertain to. These funds that were collected went towards helping children at Casa Freehold.

In addition, I have three published articles on the Empowerandhelp website named, “How much do we know about ‘Poverty’?”, “Why Companies Need to Focus on Global Crisis”, and my latest publication, “Global Shortage of PPE”. My first published article consists of the gravity of poverty and how significant changes must be made to this worldwide crisis. My second article regards how more companies must assist individuals with their financial struggles and provide adequate working environments. Finally, my latest article discusses the current global shortage of PPE and how the continuation of the pandemic is thanks to the lack of PPE worldwide.

Additionally, being so inspired by the Frontline and Healthcare workers during the COVID-19 crisis, I decided to lead the Cards of Hope project. This project acknowledges the efforts made by all Frontline and Healthcare workers during these unprecedented times. To recognize their sacrifice we reached out to people all around the world including other Ambassadors and we made cards to thank the courage, sacrifice, and kindness that Frontline workers have had during the evolution of this pandemic.

A current project that I also contributed towards was the Online Mentoring Program. This project strived towards providing children from immigrant families that came to the United States as a part of the refugee resettlement program. 

From creating curriculum to having Zoom Calls, the Online Mentoring Program consisted of teaching STEM and even Coding. This opportunity gave me the experience to connect with children face to face and teach them the basics of Language Arts, Math, and Coding. Being one of the mentors for this project I learned how to navigate through Google Classroom in the teacher’s perspective and I strengthened my love for helping children. Not only has the Online Mentoring Program taught me life skills, but it has taught me the importance of appreciating a child’s education!

Overall, I am very proud of my accomplishments outside of being a Global Challenge Ambassador and my accomplishments within the Casa Freehold and Empowerandhelp platform. As time passes I will continue to strive for more and hopefully accomplish much more in the future. I would like to thank the Empowerandhelp organization for giving me this amazing opportunity to help people and to spread awareness of the Global issues that I am passionate about. I believe that with more people striving to make a change, we as a whole can leave an impact on our beloved planet!