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2009-2010 Third Place Winner – Rishabh Khatri (Glenelg Country School) Rishabh Khatri is currently is a sophomore at Glenelg Country School in Ellicott City, Maryland. Rishabh plays soccer and tennis, and enjoys learning about other cultures and community service. Rishabh believes that community service is a great channel for him to increase his knowledge about the world. He is fluent in Hindi and Punjabi and active in the Indian community. He is treasurer of the Common Ground Club which actively advocates for cultural and ethnic diversity. In his attempt to make the world a better place, Rishabh has partnered with the Build Haiti Foundation to help provide the Haitian children with an education by building a state of the art school in Haiti, so the children can finally have the resource of learning. In the future, Rishabh would like to become a physician because he thinks it the noblest profession: seeing no barriers and providing care to the people of any race, color, ethnicity, or gender. He hopes that in the future, after I attaining the necessary skills, he will be able to actively and efficiently make the world a better place. The Fund for the Future of our Children Abrahamic Peace Essay contest allowed me to think about religion and ethics in completely different perspective from before. After taking part in the contest, I have become increasingly aware about the world and its people. I have been influenced to make change and find creative ways to help people in need. The contest has helped me to understand the importance of compassion in society. My compassion reflection: "Compassion inspires humanity and rids the world of the feelings of separation, nurturing the encompassing feeling of unity. Through compassion, we can be humanitarians to the world and unify people in it. Compassion has the capacity to make everyone a part of humanity, but it will require the uniting of ideas, efforts, and resources, for it is a reformation about helping the future. Above all, everyone must be driven by the willingness to make a better world and being exemplars of compassion for humanity."
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