Christelle, GP Boston, O’Bryant, 18 years old, originally from Haiti
“My name is Christelle, I was born in Haiti and I moved to the US about 8 years ago. Coming to the United States was probably the most eventful experience of life, simply because of my broad introduction to different cultures, individuals and perspectives. I was fortunate enough to be raised around 6 siblings and a huge family, because I think that the more people you have around you, the less closed-minded of a person you are and you are willing to respect and understand others ideas. And this is where my tenacity to accomplish my dreams of helping others derived. I value my education a lot and two things that accompany my education are success and helping others who are unable to help themselves. In addition to that, other things that come close to my education are my love for yogurts, peanut-butter sandwiches, dancing and singing, which I cannot do and my unconditional love for my family. I do believe that with peer pressure and a need to assimilate quickly in a different culture could have lead me to a bad path. Nevertheless, without the help of my siblings, the person that I am today would not have been in existence.
Ten years from now, I envision myself as one of the world’s top cultural anthropologist who is also involved in health and societies and bringing awareness to minor things such as curable diseases that have massive impacts on a society only because of a lack of attentiveness. Furthermore, I also picture myself opening an orphanage in Haiti which would eventually evolve into something similar to “Yele Haiti”. And this actually leads to my dream of meeting a famous person, Wyclef Jean. I have the outmost respect for Wyclef and to some degree it’s like living history in witnessing one man doing everything in his power to help an entire country by not only giving but also bringing hope that we are still standing. Moreover, if I had this great chance to have 1 million dollars, which I have been so desperately praying for, I would save one-fourth of it for my orphanage and the rest, splurge it in different communities to different families in Haiti. And finally, I joined Global Potential for two main things: to help and make a difference.”
