Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Scott's Video

Scott's video takes us through is post grad experiences as he chronicles his life abroad with the Piece Corps in Armenia. He also takes us into the process of researching organizations, such as Habitat for Humanity. He shows what then organization does, what their goal is, and shows how to find whether this is overall good and if it makes a difference; the pro's and con's. The main point of his video though was to show that even in our own community you can find sub-standard living conditions. He encourages everyone to go out and do something to try and make a difference, while showing you can complete this at home and abroad.

Scott stated that he always felt as if he had to go abroad to help. He lived for two years in Armenia, have some pleasurable and some difficult experiences. What he learned from that experience was that he had to listen to he community, and that there is never a right or wrong solution to something, just different. Upon coming back to the states he became aware of many new things that hadn't been apparent to him before. He thought about going abroad again helping with other organizations, but didn't find anything to his satisfaction. Just walking around Flagstaff he was able to find houses in disrepair. Even in Flagstaff, there is always help needed at food banks, homeless shelters and even humane societies and second chance shelters for animals. It doesn't matter where we are, there is always something to be done. What matters is if we do something or not.