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Post-Service Reflection Paper

Community engagement is an essential way of keeping in touch with the society, within our vicinity, or even far, depending on the needs that a program wants to achieve. While there exist serval community engagement practices, such as teaching people about something important like the need for a proper diet and prevention of diseases, there are those practices which do not necessarily require experts. Such that, any person can easily take part in community engagement and have an impact on the people. To me, the most crucial community engagement that one can engage in helping the needy. At one point in our lives, we feel the need to seek for help, but the people we cry out for may not be willing to help us. That is why, during this course, my boss and I devoted to assisting people by distributing clothes and preparing feasts for people in Matamoros region.

When I started to study in this institution, I always wanted to take part in changing people's lives, or at least making someone smile even if it was just for a day. I cannot explain the happiness I felt when we started this course on community engagement. I thought that I had an opportunity to understand better about giving back to the community and at the same time, being able to correlate well with people; I was correct. Our main objective of taking an active part in the community engagement was to empower people by allowing them to access clothes, which would, otherwise, be hard given the history and the economic situation of the region that we toured.

It was on a chilly morning when my boss picked me at a petrol station near my home as we had planned. It was the beginning of a journey to a "not very safe" neighborhood. Matamoros is located in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas and is characterized by gunfights and related illegal activities. I was a bit sceptical...