Ethics: What They Mean To ME
...my friends were starting to tutor younger students, donate plasma, and do volunteer work in the community. I have been assisting my peers and volunteering for many years and at first I thought that these people were becoming better people. I was very wrong. I soon found out when I was talking to them that they were doing it for completely selfish reasons. The only reason that they were doing these services was to improve their chances of getting into University and obtaining scholarships. Now although the community is temporarily benefiting from these students helping in various volunteer opportunities, they were doing it for completely the wrong reasons and I do not agree with what they are doing. Volunteering isn’t out there so that you can improve your resume or obtain scholarships. It is out there because there is someone out there who needs our help. When I was a young teenager, my mom started me on volunteering and at first I would do small projects such as a garbage cleanup of my neighbourhood. As I grew, so did the volunteer opportunities that I partook in. Now I am the President of OSAID (Ontario Students Against Impaired Driving) for Thunder Bay and am a member of Rotaract which is an off-chute of Rotary. What we do is find community projects that need a helping hand and we even help out in an international project with Rotary International to help raise finds to help eradicate Polio. I believe that I was raised on a good set of morals and am continuously working on myself to continually improve myself as a person. This past summer I was selected with nine other students in the city of Thunder Bay to attend a youth leadership camp in Crookston, MN. It is called RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award) and you are selected because you demonstrate excellent leadership skills and are a model citizen in the community. We are nicknamed the “Best of the Best” from our city. The purpose of this camp is to teach us good leadership skills but the major focus is on becoming a better person. We are taught a set of morals which we should live by and to teach them to other people to make them a better person. Now if we could do this, one person at a time, the world on a small scale, would be a better place to live. If everyone could have the opportunity to experience something like RYLA, I feel that things like the Enron scandal or the catholic priests issue would have been avoided or at least on a lot smaller of a scale. Camps such as these can do nothing but improve w...