“Action is the foundational key to all
success.”- Pablo Picasso
Congratulations to the Spring 2012 class, we are doing a great job
and I am proud to be part of it all! The last two events were a great success.
GLOBE had its second information session and its third fundraising event for
the semester.
The information session had an overwhelmingly great
turnout, so great that we should have chosen a bigger room for this session! It’s
so exciting to see a lot of students showing interest in such great program.
This is great as we hope to recruit another great conscientious class to
continue what our class would be ending at. During the information session Dr.
Sama mentioned that she tried to get this class to be one year long, yielding
six credits due to a lot of students wanting to do more. When she said this
immediately I was in high spirits, this came as music to my ears even though
this is my last semester at St. John’s. How awesome would it be to be enrolled
in such great class for a year! The attachment to GLOBE that we develop over
the course of this semester is quite strong! To give students a chance to
continue the initiative of GLOBE out of the class itself, we are trying to get
a Microfinance club started on campus!
On
the other hand, yesterday was GLOBE’s International Buffet fundraising event,
another great turnout! The class provided a wide variety of dishes from our different
cultural backgrounds to be sold at this event! We were definitely able to
capture the attention of many students and raise a great amount of money! There
is still one more fundraising event left and I hope that it would be as
successful as these and even greater.
The
feeling of knowing that we were able to raise a lot of money is amazing. This
money is solely for the needs of an entrepreneur in a developing country. I can
only imagine the happiness that our borrowers feel when they are given a loan.
With these loans, they are also given a feeling of hope and surety that
everything will get better once they can do something on their own. With this
hope they can overcome poverty and make a better life for themselves and their
families. The thought of knowing that we are able to give someone such hope and
a better life is the most gratifying feeling ever! As said by Sai Baba, “No Joy can
equal the joy of serving others.”
- IT & Communications Team
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