{"id":65307,"date":"2010-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-student-helps-orphans-in-nicaragua\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T00:00:00","slug":"uri-student-helps-orphans-in-nicaragua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/01\/uri-student-helps-orphans-in-nicaragua\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student helps orphans in Nicaragua"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013January 20, 2010–Matthew Brum and community service go together like balance sheets and audit reports. \u201cI think it\u2019s flowing in my blood,\u201d he says. While working toward a degree in accounting, he has participated in four service trips with the Newman Club. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe East Providence resident hung sheet rock, plastered and painted, and paved driveways to help the hurricane rebuilding efforts in New Orleans \u2013first as a freshman and then as a sophomore. <\/p>\n


\n\tHe\u2019s also made two trips to Nicaragua. During his junior year, he and 14 other 溏心vlog免费B站 students dug trenches and built steel structures under scorching sun to help build a new orphanage for disabled and abandoned children in Diriamba. The orphanage is run by the Mustard Seed, a Roman Catholic organization dedicated to caring, sharing and training, and uplifting the most vulnerable members of society, especially handicapped and abandoned children, and marginalized communities.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI remember getting off the bus and asking myself what I had gotten myself into. Here I was in foreign country, unable to speak the language, about to spend a week with children with whom I couldn\u2019t communicate,\u201d he recalls. <\/p>\n


\n\tWithin an hour of spending time with the children–some who couldn\u2019t speak, hear, or see–his fears disappeared. \u201cHuman interaction doesn\u2019t need a language,\u201d he says. \u201cThere is a mutual understanding. Spending time with the children was the most rewarding time, playing with them, feeding them, walking them, and rocking them to sleep. All the children wanted was love.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tDuring their stay, the 溏心vlog免费B站 students were driven to see the Nicaragua Garbage Dump. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t your average dump. It was a town of more than 3,000 people located within a garbage dump filled with debris, trash, and unimaginable pollution,\u201d Matthew says. <\/p>\n


\n\tAlthough the students brought food for their visit, it quickly ran out. \u201cI\u2019ll always remember trying to carefully break the Ritz crackers my friend had bought so that we could give more kids something to eat,\u2019\u201d said Matthew who left 90 percent of his clothes in Nicaragua. \u201cI had enough clothes at home. They didn\u2019t \u201d says the senior who has already been hired by CBIZ Tofias and Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. – Tofias New England Division, together the 8th largest accounting firm in the U.S. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe Newman Club needed to raise $18,000 to return to Nicaragua last winter. With help and fundraising support of the nearby Christ the King Church, the 16 溏心vlog免费B站 students raised $25,000. \u201cThat extra was enough to buy a bus for the orphanage,\u201d says Matthew.<\/p>\n


\n\tWhen they boarded the plane to Nicaragua, the 溏心vlog免费B站 students carried 15 bags of donations filled with Mustard Seed wish list items.<\/p>\n

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