I am very excited to be the overseas JF for the University of Manitoba chapter of EWB. For those that don't know me, this post will provide a bit of background.
From as long as I can remember, I have been interested in a just and fair world. For the most part of my youth I just tried to treat the people I met fairly, equally, and with kindness. It wasn't until high school that I started to put a more global focus on my values.
Through my involvement with The Marquis Project Youth Committee, I remember reading a particular New Internationalist article on child slavery on Cocoa farms that hit me so strongly that I decided to pretty much boycott all non Fair Trade chocolate. With Fair Trade, I felt that I actually could have an impact, and it significantly increased my interest in human development.
In my first of engineering at U of M, my Mother passed on from cancer. At this point I didn’t know what to do with my life, but I felt that if I could make the world better for at least a few people, then my life was still worth living. This intensified my desire to have a positive impact.
When something like this happens to you, it sure puts the statistic of "50,000 die every day unnecessarily as a consequence of poverty" in perspective.
After taking off eight months from school, I returned to U of M to pursue engineering again. I joined the U of M EWB chapter and began to get more excited. Once I attended the National Conference, I knew that EWB was an incredible organization that was going to help me have a larger impact and I decided to put my weight behind it.
Since then I have been quite dedicated and held numerous positions (past co-President, and VPs) and decided to step up my commitment.
Hope you follow along with me on the journey!
Adam
2 comments:
good stuff, looking forward to seeing more. normally the getting there part is the boring(cept for the traveller as its exciting to be starting a trip)part of vacation pics, but it kept me interested so it'll be solid once you get to the actual Africa stuff.
Someone once told me that the journeys we travel in the world are not nearly as meaningful as the journeys we travel inside ourselves. You're on a very meaningful journey Adam!! Best wishes. I'll be reading your blog!
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