My name is Samantha DuBarry, and for the second year, I will be participating in a project developed to aid disadvantaged children in the community of Santiago, Dominican Republic as a member of Global Community Engagement. Global Community Engagement (GCE) is a non-profit organization that works with both Dominican and Haitian children living in Santiago who are less fortunate and struggle with poverty, low resources, working on the streets, homelessness, and lack of educational opportunities or parental support. Our main goal is to provide these children with school supplies, clothing, hygiene items, and to also develop lesson plans and activities to provide for these children. Most importantly, we empower them with love and support, because these children are truly amazing and inspirational.