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Alexandra Kaziyeva

Providing Warmth to the People that Needed It the Most


“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others” – Mahatma Gandhi

One of the main reasons I choose to be an undergraduate student at Queens College is that they provide a lot of community service opportunities. The most memorable experience was helping the military club every winter since Freshman year to organize and fundraise money for the “Midnight Run” event. After we collected warm jackets, sweaters, socks, etc., we “run” (actually drove in a van with the clothes and hot cocoa) all around Manhattan distributing care packages to the homeless. Whatever packages we had leftover, we stopped by a local homeless shelter and donated the rest. Seeing and receiving pure gratitude from these New Yorkers made my heart smile.

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