The Importance Of Civic Engagement

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Civic engagement means helping out in the community and ultimately making the world a better place. Personally, I have a soft spot for those in poverty and struggling to make ends meet. Those people can be very stressed around the holidays, like Thanksgiving and Christmas, so I try and help make things a little easier for them. My church emphasizes helping those people out around the holidays and as I have gotten older, I have taken more responsibility for helping the less fortunate out myself. I have been running fundraisers and food drives to collect the necessities for Thanksgiving and Christmas, in correspondence with the Adopt-a-Family organization. I choose to hand deliver whatever was collected for families to their doorsteps just

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