out about sarah sarah she has a heart for people that's why i want to talk about the benefit or serve in orders the benefit of humanitarian service sara i'm so excited to have in and jersey girl twenty three now i studied a little bit in at the university of delaware for a few years i took some time off helped start an insurance agency and i'm going back to school at karen university studying business and tell me about it how was your trip my goodness it was spectacular i was so sad to leave you know i think the major the most major reason was how much i love that place in those people but it definitely is hard to kind of step back into a place apart preparation rather than doing because i want to be actively working there but now i'm kind of back in the place of preparing at school for my education how do you balance these things because a lot of people at your age you know are not the focus so much on education which is very important but you also focus on education this is also about servant bodies and how do you balance these things you know i think the biggest thing for me is is really doing it simultaneously not removing that because sometimes for our goals we think oh i'll do that one day i'm preparing to do that one day but really what it needs to be is doing it as you prepare so i'm serving others i'm learning i'm engaging with people from different cultures and just my own peers when i'm preparing when i'm at school or when i'm at the store you know so it's just kind of so i think it's intertwining those things i want people you know east you know age group you know dear sometimes of a little bit we learn from that i have to admit that some of it is definitely just personality and how i've grown up but i think that for others for anyone to kind of get outside of their shell it's a matter of perspective and i think for me some of those items are that what if i care too much about what other people think of me then i'm not going to be able to live my full potential you know not being not being fixed on what others think about what i want to be and so i think it's a matter of perspective and having the people around you to encourage you that care about you rather than anyone who sees you that's a policy wow we ought to begin you know i want you to talk about what you do for humanity i want you to talk more about it because my viewers want to know more about what you do how you good but do we need and what are those terms that you've accomplished so far yes i think that there are about three areas that i see it i've become the most aware of and i'm the most passionate engaging in i think one of the biggest this is probably socially you know but globally my ability to have gone to other places and and see the needs and wanting to meet those needs and help people fill those gaps i think that's been a major thing for me i've mentioned you mentioned going to thailand and so i was able to engage a lot more in the business world there but at the same time you see a lot of the s issues that come with some of the poverty some of the education even some of the governments in the local countries because especially within asia the economy is very intertwined with  many countries there so i think that's the private first area so what we're most of your trouble to apart from like a thailand i've had the major bussing of going to every continent except for australia so in different areas you know i've been to asia and more humanitarian aspects i've been to south america in more missional aspects and i've been to europe in more educational aspects so i've been able to see the different parts in the different areas of the world what i mean can you share with us some lessons long from some of this time that questions touches my heart so deeply i have no idea i think the biggest thing i could share is be hungry to learn be curious be inquisitive and have the courage to ask questions i think that is the deepest deepest root of helping others of reaching your own potential in a and engaging with other people is want to learn that think so many people they want to travel on the do it experience do it to consume but they don't do it to learn they don't ask questions they just maybe critique  and so i think that's what you share with us some of those today you learned i think the biggest thing is that it actually doesn't have to do with physically going it doesn't have to do with the financial means you know i again i think it's about the learning you can do that here especially in the us and where we are there are so many people from different countries cultures and languages and so me being able to go to those places and meeting those people it helps me just to see how much  time yeah so i had the opportunity to work with two companies one was a printing company based in chiang mai in thailand and then other was actually a foundation that helped teach and train educate empower the youth it's thailand and mind me and my actually so i got to really experience and understand learn from them about how they are impacting those communities because like i said i'm still preparing or i can do that through in the future so i will do six what would you understood how different it is and i think one of the most interesting things is how much they focus on their family and their history i think that's that is what was most starkly different i think in the u s you know the u s is definitely a mix of cultures they prioritize so much being with their family serving their parents and their siblings but they also focus a lot on their history where they came from while we you know us thing how to innovate how to how to move forward they're looking back and seeing what did our ancestors do and how do they want us to approach life so i thought that was really interesting citrus to the people that are traveling is education is travelling truly education that is such a hard question to answer i think it depends on the approach that you take i have seen people who go on to travelling and they do nothing but get upset i think that i get frustrated and angry and somebody even damage the cultures and people that they visit but for me and i mean for me i think it's actually always been a transformation i think even for people who are going to learn that can still make mistakes and unintentionally hurt the people there and people who are going there just to explore and have fun can actually end up learning more than expect little bit more a little bit isolated you know what i mean oh yeah and i've traveled like you know like through some of the men are widely traveled like you brought this up listen we don't see that they are more there's a little more kind of relationship compared yeah i think that that's another interesting difference in thai culture versus the us and how team oriented they are but i think when it comes to relationships i think again it's a matter of perspective the same with you know how going in willing someone is to step outside their comfort zone i think it's the perspective that everyone needs love and that might sound really really clich but it's not everyone needs someone to care about them everyone needs some of them notice in their hurt their questions their joys and when you see that and not just see it but communicate it and engage with it that is bringing the relational need that that you talk about you know talking about the the lack you know what i mean and that's what the point that we are trying to bring out here now you're talking about socially environmentally can you talk a little bit about how you have orders like and governmentally yeah so i think that's such an important thing i've been learning recently how there's basically five main areas of our physical health sleep exercise diet our water in our air you know and with the way that the world has been creating products that we does so much damage to the water we drink the food we eat in the air you breathe i think that we need to be aware of the consuming purchases we make and how we go about that to really help all of us maintain a physical health long term so things like reducing plastic use things like reducing travel when it comes your car and just small small ways to help reduce the impact to help all of us long term damage so there's a part of things that you teach people like like when you travel do you do you do you engage in teaching people young adults like things i did that list and i don't i think right now when i travel i'm learning right in that aspect because there's a lot of factors that i don't know and understand i think when i am here in the u s it's something that definitely impacts my personal decision and i do try to influence others but i think it's it starts with you you know you need to be an example for you you know start being a hypocrite i got you talking about helping others socially tell us about it and so i mentioned that in the philippines i had the chance to to bring some medical education supplies to a few different villages there and in thailand being able to help more support those who are educating and developing those communities and that's just a little bit what i've done i just admitting because of my age because my lack of experience and there's not much i can do yet but i would like to share with our viewers that that you do have to understand that the social social issues that we see in any country in any culture is so deeply rooted and it's not easy to fix it it can't be done in one person it can be done with one organization and so i think just being able to partner with others on all fronts is really important there's a book called when helping hurts by brian brian  talks about how people who want to help and they bring some physical aid and food can do more damage to the economy than they realize so i just want to communicate that it's not simple it's not easy so there's not one piece of advice i would give but it's definitely the biggest challenge that a lot of people can share with me whether very well versed in travel and maybe very new to it is language i think that's a major challenge because from that also some of out of cultural misunderstandings and that can cause a lot of challenges for you whether it's because you can't communicate what you want more they they misunderstand what what you're doing and they're offended and maybe there's a lot of tension or even physical harm done from that so i think that's the biggest challenge and it globally i should say there's the physically going the financial and getting side i think people have been growing in awareness of where they give their money and what those organizations do with their money so i think that is a major way to help but there are many people who go overseas who when they return to the states they need help as well not just financially but around relationally so i think wanting to engage of those people and asking them what they need how you can help them  i think that's a major way that anyone can help so where do you see yourself in the next i know now when you graduate would you see yourself like a next five five years with what you're going i hope i hope the next five years i i'm heading to asia but i saw some time i have two to three years left in school that i need to really i want to get more experience here and have obviously passes given that but i do hope in about five years that i'm in asia and so in ten years i i hope that i've really well learned the culture in language and i think language is really crucial i've learned especially being in thailand for two months and really trying to integrate with the cultures family here for example or in asia how would you know other people be trying to figure out they can understand you know those abroad or you know it doesn't bother me maybe it's because i haven't i'm not in that place yet i don't actually have children that i'm worried for but i think the biggest thing with how i'm how i've been reaching in approaching these goals and talking to other people who have experienced it and you know i think the funny thing is that our children and our families aren't safe anywhere you may think oh i don't want to leave my country because it's unsafe out there it's not it's not that much more unsafe you know where i think we think we have more control over our world than we do so i think that's actually one of the biggest motivators for me to wan help and serve others is that i am so blessed with so many factors i can never control i can never control where i was born i can never control what language i what language i was grown up in grown up with i was never able to control my physical brain and how mabel to think my physical body and my health i don't have control over those things and so i think for people who are concerned about what will happen if they go overseas i think that they again it stop perspective they don't have control over a lot of those things and if you want to serve that every person has their own gifts passions and goals that i would like to see those people who maybe are working towards that or have the potential to help coming alongside them and helping them understand better what that looks like for them maybe connecting them with people who i think can opportunity i had a short amount of time to decide i decided to go and that program taught me so much about the impact that that we can make and also the great need that there is for it i think it's a matter of connecting with mostly been funded by friends and family so some a lot of the opportunities that i've had to go they require that we fundraise for the money needed to go so my nonprofit organization has mostly been my friends and family comes up i think it's it's hard to say i don't think i have a particular method right now and that i should mention that when i am talking to friends and family and fundraising through got that's been in my preparation stages i don't intend to do that long term although many people do many people from their twenty's to their sixty's until they were taught retire receive their full income through giving of others because of the ministries that they're involved in and i don't think there's anything wrong with that but for me i intend to i intended to use that to prepare myself to learn to give myself a solid foundation in hours to continue to complete my education and enter the workforce i intend to have a business that or work in a business that funds me funds what i'm doing so i years i didn't look at the reason i ask you this question because you are young and sometimes like may not be the way you wanted to go so you may want to see in the next five years i want to concentrate on the humanitarian part of what i do but anything can change and so that's the question i'm asking how were you are flexible with if something like that happen you're willing to change because yes yes i definitely think so i think in general i have been a pretty adaptable person that's why i do enjoy going to these new countries for her many months but i think that when it comes to life in general we have to understand that our there again are many factors we can't control and there's there's always a lot that needs to be done wherever we go and i think even as things were to steer me a different way seeing the impact that you can make with still motivate you in to be fired not a lot of people especially students you know the go  you need to keep a positive attitude and remember that that nothing will ever be well nothing on this world ever be long lasting right so even when you have those great moments you know when things seem like oh wow it can get any better than this it's going to pass away you know and you're going to have different times that is make them better or worse necessarily but you do need to always stay engaged even in those low times saying wow this is the most awful place i've ever been realizing that it will keep moving think i mentioned being observant and being willing to engage but i think among when it comes to engaging people i've learned how important it is to be timely when you think of someone when you notice something say right away because it will be too late if you wait another day but i think when it comes to the courage it takes to say it is remembering that yes there will be uncomfortable moments when maybe you regret saying something but it won't compare to the number of positive moments you've experienced during that so for example sometimes people are they say oh like she looks out i want to say something and sometimes you go there and you say are you ok something wrong then yeah i'm fine and you go oh my gosh i was so awkward i came and i just did that at least as  but for that moment if you're willing to be that forward for those compared to that moment there be ten more moments when you say hey i saw you you know a little of this current are you ok there will be so many more moments where they say yeah thank you so much for noticing that means so much to me and it's not so much for your personal feeling it's not so that you feel good to know that people in need that care people want that care and yes we're going to take that step was one more  from an honest answer that as a believer a follower of jesus christ that that really motivates me everything i do especially my care for people knowing the needs that there are and really just using my gifts to to meet those  you know some people i it's funny i'm not i'm talking to people who may be much younger than me much all than me but i think the biggest piece of advice i would say is keep learning stay curious ask questions and don't be afraid to do that because that's how we grow and that's how we make a difference