Community Volunteering

This past month we put on a global awareness project. My society advisor and I discovered this foundation, The Pulsera Project. The organization sought to help individuals working in textiles gain freedom from their poor conditions and give them respectable jobs making bracelets, referred to as pulseras, that are sold all over the world. So, we joined immediately in the cause selling bracelets at our school, telling our peers about the Nicaraguan workers lives, and helping to provide financial relief. Our society decided to not use this as a fundraiser, but instead send all our profits back to the Pulsera Project. Not only do I help others through clubs, my high school sports teams I play for also run sports camps over the summer to help smaller child learn the game and improve their skills. The players, like me, help mold and sculpt the younger generations of

I am committed to many different community events including Special Olympics, Ronald McDonald house, and M-Fuge. Within each of these events, I contribute my time, talent, and treasure to address others issue of inequality. Special Olympics is a community service group that helps disabled and diseased men and women bowl. This community service event means a lot to me because I have built relationships with the people. Another thing that I like it that there are Teams, but they are all very kind, nice, and loving to each other. Everyone's there to help one another and support each other. One example of this is when anyone gets a strike or spare, everyone I cheering for them giving them high fives and hugs! Another community service I do is volunteering at the The Ronald McDonald house. At the Ronald McDonald house, we make all the families staying there dinner and desert. This community service means a lot to mean because I feels good to feed those in need of food, who are poor because their trying to provide for their children. The last type of community service I do is attending a camp called M-Fuge. My youth group has gone to Belmont University (Tennessee) and North Greenville University (South Carolina) both for the M-Fuge Camp. Within this camp, we go to local underprivileged and poor schools throughout the city, helping them with homework

Many schools need to push students to participate in volunteering services to receive their high school diploma. By students being part of an active role in the community, they are capable of becoming responsible leaders, learning new things, and helping those in need in their community. Volunteering is beneficial to students because it helps them become more mature and it helps them get ready for the real world. Students need to help the community whether it is forced or not.

The United States, as some can say, is a country known to be a hand in help. Although, they are a help by choice not mandatorly. In the United States there is a great amount of volunteers for many volunteering programs. The amount of volunteers increase through the years for different causes. There are volunteers for schools, churches, sport clubs, and even more. Not only do Americans volunteer but also make donations. Americans do this sincerely from heart, not because it's a law.

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Honestly, the school having programs to make the students volunteer isn’t good in my opinion. Let’s look at it like this when people sign up to volunteer they are doing this because they chose to and they want to be doing it.

-I would like to try something I have never done before. I think to become a volunteer in SDC would be a very valuable experience.

When I was thirteen and in middle school in the year 2006 I had a good friend and she name was Ally who was also thirteen. Ally was never one to deserve the way others acted toward her. People at school bullied her, her family she has left only make it worse. To help her with the pain of her family and classmates she started to volunteer. Ally gave everything to the world, even her own life.

Do you want a more well-rounded society in the future? Only 40% of 2,000 students volunteer according to New York Times.That leaves 60% of those students without those communications, leadership, problem solving, ability to work with a team skills, that every person should have. Volunteering gives students the acquiring valuable job skills, they will need. The next generation will be more experienced in talking to someone new; as they would have an increased self-esteem, by having experienced working with others. High schools around the country should make volunteering a requirement in schools . Therefore, they won’t regret their acts of kindness, they will make.

My schedule during the day is go to school, then come home. Unlike most teenagers I don't hang out with friends outside of school, go to the mall or have friends over. However to keep my sanity, I do need to get out the house every now and then so I spend most of my time volunteering. I have been volunteering at my church's daycare since freshmen year, for two hours every Sunday. Spending my time there always refresh my memory on how I cannot take care of a child by myself at my age. It teaches me responsibility, how to care for a child, how to properly discipline children, and keeping a safe environment for the children. I've also tutor underclassmen at school in English and help teachers with their students. This year I'm currently tutoring

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Volunteering: The great experience no one can afford to lose. Opposers say, mandatory community service can have several negative effects on students. “Community service hours are impressive additions to college applications and can provide a student with a great sense of accomplishment; however, the mandatory hours will have many negative consequences” (Cydney Hayes, 2012). Many students are barely even passing the regular school curriculum, and opposers believe that adding the additional load of mandatory service hours will discourage teens from even wanting to graduate. Also mandatory service is usually assigned by a court as punishment to delinquents. “In a small number of cases, community service is

Volunteering is an aspect of society that is characterized with selflessness and honor. Volunteering is defined by academic sources as, "A person who performs a service willingly and without pay (Van Der Wagan, 2005)." Volunteers provide services from society from the kindness of their hearts and require nothing in return. They are not extrinsically motivated by awards such as money, prestige, or status but are intrinsically motivated by a sense of service for others. Volunteers have given freely of their time and energy to help others through many of the world's crises. The London 2012 Olympics is no different in this regard as many individuals give of themselves for nothing more than a "Thank You." The Olympics is a grand spectacle which exhibits many of the finer qualities of human society. Sacrifice, honor, collaboration, and respect are just some of the quality traits that many athletes and volunteers alike exhibit to the world. Volunteering however, has much different strength depending on differing perspectives. Organizers, Tourists, and other volunteers see the overall status of volunteering from different perspectives. Through this document many of these differing concepts will be discussed in detail.

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Volunteering is one of the many ways to give back to a community and the people within it. When a person volunteers it is normally because he or she wants to repay the community in which he or she currently resides. Not only does it give back to the community, but it also helps establish new relationships with people within that community. Lending a hand to someone in need is something that should be identified as an important task, rather than being understood as a burden. Whether it is feeding the homeless people or helping rid the highways of litter, there are many ways to provide assistance to someone in need. I plan to volunteer at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital as a Unit Buddy and I will develop many benefits such as better social skills