NOTE: Unfortunately, due to the highly sensitive nature of some of the information in my motivational statement, I have only included the first half of my entry as well as slightly modifying some of the details. Please refer to my online submission for the complete motivational statement. Sorry and thanks for understanding.
A life-altering journey will soon be irreversibly set in motion. I will be married to my beautiful fiancée, yet we will not have a home. Our plan is to leave our jobs for at least one year. We will embark on a mission to seek out social change taking place in our global community, aspiring to be students of cultures, economies, philosophies, politics and history.
Our goal is to be temporary residents – not tourists – to more deeply integrate into societies and we relish the opportunity to be enablers of social change along the way. We hope to investigate things such as working on an organic farm, exploring the context of those in extreme poverty, consulting with entrepreneurs, while possessing flexibility to jump on a plane and assist with relief efforts.
This is not a solitary journey but rather, the journey of a community. The guests at our wedding will provide social issues and destinations they would like us to explore, perhaps even meeting us there, while we aim to redistribute our wedding gifts along the way, creating direct linkages between our friends with individuals abroad. We believe Kiva is the perfect conduit to channel our funds into local communities in a relevant and sustainable manner. Inevitably, with knowledge comes responsibility, and our hope is that this journey will grow in all of us a high value of humanity and develop a snowball of engagement with our global community.
While our goal is simply to learn and our hope is to be changed, my long-term dream is to be a social entrepreneur. This trajectory has been increasingly apparent.
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