My First Experience Volunteering in America (Day of Hope) zōng-yàn lǐ (Lily) Today was a very important day for me. While I am not quite sure how much this will affect my life in the future, right now, I am very very happy, very very satisfied. Churches, government agencies and the police department worked together to host the event. In Baltimore, there are several high-crime, poverty-stricken areas. I have been told they are some of the worst areas in the country. What makes these places so terrible? It’s because of the drug dealers, abuses and some other bad living conditions. The purpose of this event was to tell the people in these areas that life is full of hope, that the people of this society passionately want to help them, therefore, they should not lose hope and should not fall. Our church was in charge of taking care of the