Hi! My name is
Melanie Sheehe and I am a freshman at Penn State University Park. I grew up in Hershey Pennsylvania as a lover
of film, the environment, and social service.
I came across the Community, Environment and Development major during my
new student orientation and knew that it was the perfect major for me. I am an intended Spanish minor, as I took
many years of it in high school and one semester here at Penn State.
As for the Peace
Corps, I have some experience travelling to developing countries and during my
travels, I noticed that many of the relief efforts from nations like the US
involve giving away resources and supplies, when this action is only a
temporary fix that worsens the state of the struggling economy in the long
run. Instead of this, I want to use my
life to spread knowledge to these countries so that they are
able to recover and continue to grow in a sustainable way. This way, the
foundation of the nation is strengthened through community and steady growth. I
am particularly interested in the use of environmentally conservative
transportation, like bicycles and public transportation; both of which reduce
the use of nonrenewable fossil fuels.
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