Student Management Group,

H.E.L.P. COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT

WHAT DID THE TRIP TEACH YOU?

“If we all help together, we survive” Sarah
“Some people have a lot and others have nothing to live” Laura
“These people didn’t have a lot of things and I have so many things I don’t need” Clara
“How to cook and clean. How young people and old people can get together, age doesn’t matter” Benedikte
“To learn how much people here need and how much more the people give” Jeppe
“That you can make a difference in other people’s lives and that a small group can do a lot” Coco
“That one of the women really appreciated our help, even though it wasn’t big, she was really glad” Kevin
“In America there are big cultural differences too” Sofie
“What nature can do to people, it can bring them together” Simon
“We don’t need many things to be happy, helping others make you feel good” Victor
“If we share and work together, we can do a lot of good thins” Karin
“How people are different, how deep friendship can become. The long term volunteers are giving so much, you learn there is much more outside the bubble you live in” Juan
“How generous people are through their worship and religion. How people can come together, they work together not to benefit themselves, nut others” Khoa
“People car for each other and they will give up thing in their lives to help others” Susi
“Many people sacrifice themselves and time to help others, It’s amazing” Joe
“Some people really needed help, you should help them” Dorothy
“You should be thankful for what you have and not to be shy to give up something to help others” Sabrina
“The American attitude of people giving things up to help others. This was a small thing to give help to someone else in a big way” Sami

WHAT WAS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE?

“When we were making the food for the Convoy of Hope” Sara
“The Convoy of Hope food drive” Laura
“When the woman at the house we worked at showed us her pictures and cries about how the hurricane changes her life” Clara
“The people are so grateful and nice. It was a positive atmosphere, I won’t forget” Coco
“That’s hard, it felt like home” Benedikte
“Getting the trust of the people we helped and everyone saying God Bless You” Simon
“The atmosphere, it’s incredible that people are so thankful you get so much back” Sofia
“The experience with the family we helped” Jeppe
“That I learned so much for the people in my group, we all came together. There are so many good experiences” Kevin
“When the woman of the house told me “There is no money in the world to Thank You for you all this help” Victor
“The faces of the people in the town that you are helping” Karin
”I got to do translation work” Juan
“The moment the lady hugged us after we were done working. We didn’t want to leave her; she didn’t treat us like workers but like friends” Khoa
“The feeling of being tired but all the time feeling good because I had helped someone else, feeling good about helping someone get their life back” Susi
“I felt I’m becoming apart of the group, amazed me that we could help other people so much” Joe
“The lady’s face when we were done painting her house, she was so happy” Dorothy
“It’s kind of amazing that it doesn’t matter where we are from, we all got along and that by working together we made the world a better place” Sabrina
“To learn to build a house and working independently” Sami