Community Service Reflection

Students sometimes find it hard to find opportunities to complete community service hours but they often never have to look further than they're neighborhood or the local businesses and clinics and a lot of students are blinded to that fact(khan 1).Community service is something positive but it shouldn't be forced upon you to do it because it becomes more of an assignment and will be done half-hearted, and that's due to the fact that it focus more on the hours than the service itself(khan 1).

As surprising as it may sound, I have been doing community service since the sixth grade and it is a new experience each time. It all began with a community clean up known as 'Keep McAllen Beautiful' as we got there everyone seemed excited to be there. It was beautiful to see such unity inside of my community, and I decided from then on that I would like continue helping out where it is needed. As I joined the National Honor Society my chances of providing my services increased, and I decided that I would assume a position of leadership when needed. I became the society's president, which allowed me to develop my time management skills, creativity, and efficiency. I organized an fundraiser for the hurricane Harvey disaster victims where all

As a second year National Honor Society student, the last couple of years I have been more focused on ways I can help my community to help get all my service hours in for the end of my high school NHS career. I’ve always loved doing little things to help someone who needs it but I never thought about the things that I do everyday count just as much as the other things. Community service to me, is more than just holding the door open for someone, picking up trash, or helping someone with their groceries. I want to help people grow and be a better person while serving my community. I want to do more than volunteer, I want to impact the lives of people and I feel that is what I have done.

From day one my mom taught me that you will get more satisfaction giving to and helping others than you ever will by just doing things for yourself. I truly believe this. Volunteering to teach swimming lessons, organizing recycled items, and visiting the nursing home are all things I have been involved in and doing each of those I have learned more and more about how important service is. Just recently my classmates and I helped an elderly woman move all of her belongings out of her home and into the 4H building for an auction. The 4H building is on the fairgrounds where I have volunteered to clean up every spring for the last 3 years. Service is very important but also very rewarding. I look toward to doing more service projects in the

I have learned that community service would take the focus off of me and make me more aware of the world and people around me. Today it seems that everybody is so wrapped up in themselves and material items that they lose sight of the things in life that truly make you happy. Just the good feelings you get when you're able to help somebody out are more rewarding than a paycheck. I also feel it would help me develop better leadership skills by planning and organizing fundraising, food drives, etc. It's difficult for many people to work as a team and work out their ideas. It's important to know when to step up and take charge, and when it's time to sit back and listen to others ideas. I feel that the sooner you can learn to work with others, the better off you are. Last but not least, I believe that community service prior to graduation will give me a better idea of what to expect once I have graduated. A lot of people enter the workforce with no prior knowledge or experience. By having that knowledge and experience I feel that I would have an edge over other graduates from different schools. All in all I know that I can and will make a difference in people's lives everyday. I hope you consider taking on a few hours of community service. I feel that this will make you an asset as well as a person to your

Depending on where you live, community service is different for everyone. But despite where your community is, there is always a way to help out and contribute. Community service is a way to show that you as a citizen, are grateful to live in a community that supports you and you would like to keep that tradition going in the town. Community doesn’t have to be a thing to get into a good school. It should be something to do out of respect for your family and the people that you care about around

I learned giving to the community is far more than just doing it for a grade. It's about Helping out people somehow so we can grow and surpass the past failures and struggles we’ve experienced escalate to our destination , little by little it’s about coming to discover more about ourselves and our weaknesses.

One morning volunteering in high school changed my life; because when I was a little girl I always had the idea to help others, yet I did not know how. It all started in eighth grade when I did community service for confirmation and I decided as my act of service to volunteer at a food bank. That day made me realize the simplest things could make a difference in somebody’s life and kept getting involved since then. Throughout high school I was an ambassador and active club member in different organizations which performed acts of service throughout the community, it included collecting clothing and organizing food and toy drives.

In the spring of my junior year, myself, other National Honors Society members, and members of the community came together to put on a spaghetti dinner fundraiser. This fundraiser was to help the family of a freshman who was battling cancer. This experience impacted me in a way that I will never forget. By working to put together this dinner and working as a waiter at the dinner I realized how much I take for granted, and that I need to be more grateful in every aspect of my life. In preparation for this dinner I went to businesses for donations, made personal donations, and worked to get district and community involvement. As a waiter at the dinner I greeted the public, served the three-course meal, and helped to accept further donations for

Students who participate in community service learning tend to do better in school. It 's believed that community service is somewhat of a missing link for students, giving them the chance to apply what they 've learned in the classroom to real human needs. Volunteering is a great way to follow up on and supplement subjects that have been covered in the classroom.

By participating in Service Learning I have learned that helping others in and around the community not only makes myself feel good for helping someone, but also leaves a positive impact on those that I help/interact with. I love volunteering at the elementary schools over the years I have realized how hard teachers work and by helping them out once a week by grading some papers, making copies and any other busy work they may have for me to do. Also working at the little kid camp I learned that it takes a lot of patients to work with kids trying to get them to listen, follow instructions and learn a routine is way harder than you think it would be. By contributing my free time to help others out I hope I am able to leave a positive impact on

My second round of service learning hours was conducted at the same location, Rahab Sisters. A place that gives “radical hospitality to women in the Portland Metro area that have been marginalized by the sex industry, domestic violence, poverty, substance abuse, and homelessness” (2016).

For my service reflection paper and caring and teaching component, I volunteered with the “Youth Stand Tall (YST),” Hope Grace Opportunity, Inc., in two different areas. First, I served as a counselor and mentor for the students at the Franklin K. Lane Educational Campus, which encompassed five different schools on the campus. The class size is approximately 10 to 15 students and the subject ranges from learning about themselves to giving back to their community and mentoring others. The YST is a community intervention program geared towards helping and enriching the lives of our youth while also teaching them sisterhood and brotherhood. The ultimate mission was to fill the gaps in our children’s lives by providing a range of programs, services, and activities that would mainly be led by the YST student body. Therefore, teaching them leadership, responsibility, commitment, and dedication were the essential teaching components and tools/strategies to become more productive and caring adults.

Community service is something that doesn’t only improve us, it also benefits the broader public. A community is similar to a puzzle, without one of the pieces it is never flawless. Even though people at times contemplate that their retribution is meaningless, they’re truly not looking at the bigger picture. Personally when I volunteered at Sanford Health, I didn’t focus on who I was truly helping or whether or not it was making a difference. This volunteering experience, I considered to be a service I was providing and nothing more. Looking back at it, I can distinguish the difference I made not only in the patients’ lives, but also in the nurses’ lives. When analyzing this service opportunity, it became clear that community service can affect not only the people we are serving but those around and also ourselves. Not only was I helping the patients and the nurses, but they were helping me become a well-rounded person.

Throughout my life and academic career, I have continually provided service to the community in various different ways. My first such experience came during my time in elementary school when, each year, myself, and many of my classmates, would engage in a day of service on Martin Luther King Day. We made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for a local food cupboard, played bingo and did arts and crafts with elderly residents in a retirement community, and even played music for nursing home residents. These early year activities introduced me to the idea of giving back and helping those in need and since that point, I have continued to prove my dedication to serving the community.