Community means lots of different things to each of us, to some of us, it is the way that we connect to each other and stay with each other. Community is not supposed be in a certain place, it can be anywhere with anyone. Community has not been as important as it was in the earlier times of the United States, it has lost the meaning behind it.

In this sense of caring and giving back to the community Chris Sanders opened the club of Help Others Now(HON) in the Fall Quarter of 2015. The purpose of the club is to provide students with the opportunity to give back to their community while also helping them grow as individuals. The club president, Chris Sanders is hoping to get`s people attention and their help to help the ones that seeks the help the most.

Mr. Sanders decided to open the club with the idea of making a difference in the community after coming back from the Nicaragua trip. 10 Pierce College students went to Nicaragua for nine days in their summer break. In one of the interviews Sanders gave to the News Tribune he said “It changed us for the better”.

Sanders and other students decided that they should make a difference in their community as they did in Nicaragua, so the trip to Nicaragua was not only beneficial to local people of Nicaragua but also to the Pierce College community.

Sanders thinks that the best way to make a difference in the community is “by providing an opportunity for others to experience the joy you get from helping others.” Which also explains the reason behind the club`s name, Help Others Now. Community to Mr. Sanders means “a genuine bond between two groups that benefit from their relationship with each other.”

Helping Others Now has three main goals. “The first and most important goal is to make sure our community is taken care of. Whether that is by helping the homeless or working with incarcerated youth there are many ways we choose to give back. The second is to always give our students the opportunity to give back and provide them with rewards such as letters of recommendations. The third goal we have is to ensure that the Helping Others Now Volunteer Club will continue to live on and grow every year,” said Sanders.  

Helping Other Now meets every third week of every month on Thursday. You can stay updated by texting @helpnow to 81010.