For Many Years, I Have Gain An Interest Within The Area

This experience led me to carry out several ventures. One of my first ventures was helping in food bank where I helped to pack food and transport it to several organizations and people in need. was hard to balance my school work with volunteering since I had to go in the evenings, but I developed the grit and passion to work hard! I started feeling a sense of accomplishment and gained responsibility.

at the orphanage, I was able to help build a sidewalk and a garage for

I volunteer for many organizations because I am currently in clubs such as HOSA and Key Club. For HOSA, we volunteered at God's Storehouse. God's Storehouse is a small, local community center that helps citizens in the local community to gather the necessities they need. They take donations for clothes, food, and even toys. Us HOSA members went around Thanksgiving. We helped with hanging and organizing clothes and rearranging toys and placing them in the proper places. What I really enjoyed the most about this experience is seeing the wonderful smiles on the faces of the people in need. I was very blessed to have the luxuries in my life. It feels even better to give a person in need happiness. I would love to volunteer for God's Storehouse

Lisa, I am so proud of you for selecting The Salvation Army. This place is somewhere where people can go for a hot meal, place to sleep, and a kind word. I think this company provides many helpful services for the men, woman, and families in our community. I have volunteered there helping with meals and brought my two children along. I felt like they needed to witness how good their lives are and give back to the community too. This was an eye opener for them and they came away with a better understanding of the real world and what they have. I recommend all children volunteer there to get them thinking how good they have it verses the people there. The company is non profit and provides these services for free. This is why people should donate

Volunteering to feed the homeless is truly an eye opening experience to what reality is. There is an estimated one hundred million homeless people in the world who are starving and are trying to find a way to survive. On a day-to-day basis, we see homeless people everywhere such as on the streets, by the freeway asking for money so they can feed themselves, or maybe even feed their own family. One day, my mom and I decided we had to take action after witnessing so many homeless people on the streets.When people are in such a difficult situation, their only option is to beg for money because they have no roof over their head, and no food to eat. Many of these people are suffering from their own decisions, unemployment, or for other personal reasons. There are many homeless people who are sick and suffering from severe mental illnesses. It breaks my heart seeing homeless people in the streets, so I knew I had to take action and help out someway. The experience of volunteering to feed the homeless was most certainly a life changing experience. It made me realize how grateful I am for my life, how important it is to help those in great need, and to never take a meal for granted or roof for granted. This event was one that happened in the spur of the moment but has also changed me as a a person by becoming more involved and helping out more in my community , learning to never taking anything for granted, and by not assuming all homeless people are bad people as such.

I volunteered at my local domestic violence shelter called JCCDV or Jennings County Counsel on Domestic Violence. Volunteering at this shelter has taught me lots of strategies that I hope to use in the future. The shelter is only 5 years old and is making itself more known every day. The staff does hosts events for the community and they go into schools to talk about what services they offer. JCCDV firmly believes in self-empowerment. It is important to them that the people they shelter try to make a better life for themselves.

Working at the food pantry involves ensuring that people in need have fresh food and personal hygiene items. Volunteering here has exposed me to the vast needs within my own community. It has taught me to look

The organization that I volunteered for was Harvest House through the CCE program. “Harvest House is an intensive rehabilitative program which provides a variety of integrated and varied life skills training for its member” (Orgsync). Harvest house is a place for both men and women with severe and chronic mental illness are able to gain community support and participate in services that focus on facilitating appropriate socialization, adaptive coping skills, improving self-confidence, and learning how to live with their mental disability. The particular activity that I participated in was receiving donated clothes from designated areas and bringing the clothes to the men and women at the Harvest House. The individuals who participate are living in severe poverty; some receiving as little as $50 a month from the Harvest House organization and having no other income. Harvest House works with both its members and professional staff who provide food to the members and set up meetings for them to interact with each other. The donated clothing that we brought to them is very helpful because it can provide things such as a winter coat, a scarf, a warm hat, or many other articles of clothing that these people would not normally be able to afford.

I have done a lot of volunteering through my church with Vacation Bible School and several holiday celebrations. I also volunteered at Kettering Health Network Hospital for the summer of 2013. I would help discharge patients. During the

I have volunteered a lot. I have been with key club for three years and every year, I would a fundraiser to raise one-hundred dollars to be qualified in relay for life. Relay for life is a cancer society that helps patients get cured as soon as possible from the money that was fund raised. I have volunteered often when new events are announced. My experiences was to help others who are in need. I have learned a lot from the experiences I had to

For the majority of my service this year I volunteered at St. Vincent de Paul's on the east side of Green bay. When signing up for tasks when I was volunteering I tried to choose something different each time so I could experience volunteering there from multiple different perspectives. The first time I volunteered signed up for “stocking.” For this assignment I worked upstairs in one of the back rooms sorting through and organizing donations that people had dropped off. Although with this task I didn't get to really directly work with the marginalized I still think it was beneficial not only for the staff at St. Vincent's but for myself as well. When I was rummaging through boxes and organizing I got an insight as

From sophomore to senior year, I volunteered at the Glide Memorial Church, an organization that helps to serve food to the low- income and homeless. I decided to volunteer at Glide because I want to give back to the community that I am part of by mitigating the issue of homelessness in San Francisco. On the first day of volunteering, I was sent to pass trays of food to people. I like volunteering there because I enjoy seeing the smiles on the people’s faces when I pass the trays to them. As I continue to volunteer, I was placed in many positions and challenged myself with different and new responsibilities. I did clear up, help people to clear up their mess and clear up the trash. I help fill in food in the trays and pass the other volunteers.

I have volunteered at a public hospital for three years. I am not affiliated with any non-profit organization. However, I do run a project of my own it's called Feed Free. I provide food/home supply and personal hygienic items to people in need, mostly to homeless shelters.It happens every last week of the month. I am hoping to expand this project and reach out to more people. It has benefited me and my community.

Over the summer, I volunteered at a Habitat for Humanity Restore on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays; each session would usually last for three hours. The store regularly accepts donations, such as furniture, and then resells them at a heavily discounted price for low-income families to purchase. After spending over 50 hours storing and organizing donations, I realized the store was very dependent on volunteers because the staff was very limited. My experience at the restore taught me that volunteers are crucial for the well-being of communities as they make beneficial programs, such as the restore, possible.

I was fortunate to be a part of the Salvation Army, where I was provided with the opportunity to volunteer at the Thrift store. The organization’s goal is to provide a way for people in the society to purchase donated clothes, toys, books, and household furniture’s at extremely low prices enable to produce funds to support many other ministries, programs, services including food banks, shelters, children 's camps, addiction treatment accommodations and charities for the community’s most vulnerable citizens. Their mission is to not only meet human needs but also driven to share the love of Jesus Christ, and be a transforming impact in the communities. The association’s vision is to be a functioning and thriving modern day model of William Booth 's who is the founder of the Salvation Army through which the banished and excluded of society will be refreshed and restored by way of meeting their practical needs. (Podkalicka, 2012) This organization values every costumer equally with respect, reach out and care for them. It also promotes the dignity of all persons. The Salvation Army Thrift stores provide a clean and professional atmosphere for the buyers. Furthermore, the compassionate staff and volunteers foster teamwork and partnerships for others to emulate as shown when they are replenishing stock, organizing products, hanging clothes and merchandising. All genders and ages are welcome to shop and deliver dignity and grace to children, families and individuals to the