<p>While I don't really condone going overseas to "help" soley to appeal to colleges, I fail to see how that hurts you. I mean, if you have money and wants to go overseas to help people who are starving, how does that mean you're not willing to help your own community? Hell, if you have money to do it, perhaps the biggest problem your community faces is a broken DVD player in somebody's Mercedes, or the neighbor's Mexican gardener got sick and needs somebody to trim the specially imported, multicolored roses.</p>
<p>Seriously, to claim that picking up some garbage in a place where there's are corporations and servicement doing the same thing is just as important as building schools in places with 80% illiteracy and 90% poverty rate is, well, quite illogical.</p>