Who could I be?

This blog was created by a former volunteer with the help of the volunteers and sisters involved in the 2010 Charity in the City summer program, sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of New York for women ages 18-30.

As a volunteer last year, I found the experience of service in the city remarkable because it challenges volunteers to ask the question pictured in the mural above-- Who Could I Be? They ask this question of themselves, but also from the humbling perspective of the people they serve over the course of two weeks. People on the fringes of their communities must ask, "Who could I be if I had a home? Or if I had an education? If I were healthy?"
At the end of the program and long after, we as volunteers ask the question with greater consciousness of others, and consequently of our own gifts, graces, and privileges. Who Could I Be? becomes How Can I Be?
Then, with greater strides, our journeys continue.

About the Blog Editor

Morgan was a volunteer in the Charity in the City 2009 program, and came back in 2010 to compile the experiences of the volunteers onto this blog.  This fall, she will be a sophomore at Vassar College studying history and interning with the Children's Media Project in Poughkeepsie.  Her writing and filmmaking has been featured in the Arkansas Young Playwrights Showcase and the Chicago Youth Film Festival.
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