Sunday, March 22, 2009

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL COLLEGE SPRING BREAKERS FOR YOUR VOLUNTEERISM

For many years, College students who were on Spring Break made headlines for their crazy antics while at a beach resort, a ski resort, or any other vacation venue where there was just fun-loving practices, excession drinking and lunatic activities. However, many College students were determined to break those bonds of negative spring break headlines with positive activities that impacted the lives of those in need of more affordable housing, learning disadvantages, and the lonely and forgotten in our many communities. These projects used the tremendous resources of the energetic and enthusiastic young minds to build rather than to destroy the images that College-age students are often subjected. You encouraged a HAND UP rather than a HAND OUT!

Thank you and congratulations for all of those College Spring Breakers for assisting in building and rebuilding the Ladders of Achievements in the communities throughout the United States and throughout the world community. Your positive efforts are well-noted and rewarded by the smiling faces of the recipients of newly built affordable houses and by the hope that you brought to the community centers that were enriched and enhanced by your providing literacy training for those who were looking for a positive learning environment.

Many college students assisted in helping the homeless receive hope in the face of a declining economic environment by their helping to fix and repair challenging environments. Your efforts were noted in the soup kitchens and the long lines of the unemployed and the underemployed who needed encouragement to seek out positive avenues for training and retraining. Your countless hours in church-related activities brought about a renewed spiritual energy that is lacking in a godless society that ignores the poor, the oppressed, the disadvantaged, the disabled, the health care facilities that have been overwhelmed with devastation for many reasons, and the elderly care facilities that have lost the value and the dignity of the human person by their attitudes.

Yes, THANK YOU, COLLEGE SPRING BREAKERS, FOR MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY GIVING OF YOUR TIME, YOUR TALENTS, AND YOUR LIMITED TREASURES FOR THE LESS FORTUNATE. You are God's army of love that shows what can be done by the private sector when given an opportunity to respond to the needs of a Country starved of love, joy, and peace.

Your exemplary examples have given hope to those who are striving to regain their energies to CLIMB THEIR LADDERS OF ACHIEVEMENTS one day at a time.

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