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I am Tori Kersey, a high school senior seeking to combine my passion of art with my heart for children to become an art therapist and social worker for children in Honduras. This dream started in September of 2006 when my family made the decision to start the process of adopting a young boy from Honduras. In that very same month 1,528 miles away, my highly energetic brother came into the world an orphan in the poverty stricken Central American country of Honduras. After seven years of being a test family for a closed to adoption country, we finally brought my brother Gustavo home. Not only were these years filled with paperwork, long meetings, and fundraisers, but also with six weeks of traveling for my parents to visit the young boy. Those …show more content…

Beyond discovering my direction for my life through the adoption of my brother, I found the country where I want to live out my mission. This summer I will have the opportunity of visiting my hopefully future home for the fourth time to help those with physical and spiritual needs, continue to build friendships with the Hondurans, and teach art to school-aged children. Another passion in my life is art, which has always been a place of refuge, an area of comfort, a way to relax, and an outlet to express myself. One day I want to provide this same satisfaction and healing to others. As a daughter of a graphic designer and sister to an artist, I have always been immersed in the world of creativity and art, which has helped build my love and passion for it. Not only do I desire to use art to help children overcome traumatic experiences or difficulties, but also as a means to see the beautiful creativity of God. To fulfill this dream of teaching children self-expression through art I must earn not only a college degree, but also my masters in art therapy. For my undergraduate I am planning on attending Union University in Jackson Tennessee to not only earn my degree in Art Therapy, but also to grow as a person so I can better humbly serve others. I am actively trying to achieve higher education in order to help others in

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