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Let me tell you what Students Sharing is not. It is not your typical non-profit organization that helps out in the community. It is not only an organization that provides students with the opportunity to perform service work. It provides service combined with learning and an opportunity to share with others what they have learned so that all can benefit. It is truly a unique organization. Nothing else exists like it. The students have an investment in their own efforts and, in a sense, own Students Sharing. Where else can a student give and learn from a variety of people- we may be unique individually, but we all share the same needs and wants. In Students Sharing, we learn that we are all in this together, and that people are the only things that really matter. Things come and go, but people are the only things that really matter. Things come and go, but people are always here, And they need to grow in a soil of love, respect, and self-worth, or they will wither and weaken.
It seems that of the things that we learn, the most important things are learned when we are young. Particularly about other people: how to live with them, how to learn from them. Students Sharing Coalition gives students the opportunity to look at what they know or think they know and the chance to evaluate and re-evaluate all this...stuff. It's the stuff that cannot be taught in school or in Life 101. It's the stuff that carries us into adulthood and hopefully will give us a willingness to keep an open mind, to accept things preciously unacceptable, to show a little kindness and compassion where there was only once despair. These are the precious, intangible gifts that we carry through life. They enhance possibilities--possibilities for mankind, rather-- humankind, to make a better world and to get along with one another in it. In order for us to keep what we have, we must give it away. In that way, the continual cycle of giving, growing, learning, sharing, caring...the mission of Students Sharing Coalition will go on and on.
-- Doug
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