Personal Narrative: My Catalyst For Volunteering

One of my first volunteering positions growing up was at a local elementary school assisting children in core math and reading subjects. Not only did I help the students but I also helped the teacher with grading and developing new assignments. This experience gave me great insight into how one can effectively explain education materials to young children.

I have been in the Marine Corps for roughly three and a half years and throughout that time I have done many things. Most of the things that I have done were with Combat Logistics Battalion 26. For three years, I worked with that unit through work ups and a deployment and I have seen and done many unique things. However, nothing I did with CLB 26 felt fulfilling, but that all changed when I changed units to CLB 8.

I joined the Make a Difference club on September 2016,where I completed my community service. I completed a total of 37.5 hours in the club.

When my aunt asked if I wanted to help at the nursing home, I mainly went because I was bored. When I arrived, I helped the residents play bingo and I even painted a few nails. Even though it does not sound like a lot, I realized on that day how much I loved helping others and how I couldn’t wait to volunteer again.

I have always taken great pride in my ability to bring myself out of poverty and to become a well-rounded person. I have suffered through many obstacles along the way, and with great determination, I have been able to overcome them. I know that I have been fortunate and I never take that for granted. Friends and family are a great support system and I am blessed to have the best of both. I work very hard to instill strong beliefs into my children and their friends. It is very important to me that I give back to the community. Understanding social culture and economic provides and even greater sense of wanting to help those that need it. I volunteer through my work with Habitat for Humanity and the Houston Food Bank. My daughter also volunteers

During the summer I volunteered at camp rainbow in pontiff from 9am to 3:30pm. I worked with kids ages 6-11 with mental disabilities. In the morning the kids and I would play with Legos Try to build something cool like spaceships or skyscrapers. After playing with the Legos, we would pick up and go outside to play with the kids on the playground equipment. There I would push the kids on the swing really high and watch their face light up with excitement the higher they swung. After playing outside the kids and volunteers went inside into the gym and ate popsicles while the kids worked on arts and crafts. When the kids got bored of arts and crafts they ate lunch then we took them to the gym where we played a soccer game until they got tired.

I found my interest when I volunteered at my local Hospital. I decided to volunteer there because I found it to be a great way to not only volunteer, but to have a bit of insight as to how a career in the medical field works. In the summer of 2016, I volunteered every weekday except Friday at Kingwood Medical Center. I was placed in Pediatrics, ICU. Every shift was four hours. On Thursday and any other day I could, I volunteered for eight hours. On a Thursday I got ready to head out to my shift. I entered through the south tower, and clocked in. Every thursday I was set to go to pediatrics center. Sadly, the pediatrics center never really had much patients, so there wasn’t much to do. Mrs. Aaron, who was in charge of the volunteer department,

The agency I volunteered to work at was the Graffiti Church Ministries After-School Program on 205 E 7th St. During the school week, usually Mondays, I would take the train to this program and strive to make the kids’ days at least a little bit better. I would almost always arrive at 3:15 PM exactly and would first help the children with their homework. Helping the children was shockingly much more troublesome than anticipated. I would have to explain exceptionally basic concepts to someone who knew next to nothing about it. I remember distinctively helping a kid, Jamel, with his homework and it proved extremely difficult for me to explain the concept of time to a first grader. I attempted to clarify that a quarter, as far as time, is commensurate

I started to with the idea that I want to make a positive impact on a large scale, a community scale. to make to make an impact in a multicultural country like Australia or an outside environment I will have interact with populations diverse to own experience.My curiosity and want to connect lead to volunteering. I wanted to see what I could help with.

For my Make a Difference Project, I decided to donate 2 large boxes of unused toys to Goodwill. I also wanted to donate $50 to Riley Hospital. I exceeded my goal as I donated two boxes of gently used toys and a full desk set to Goodwill. I also met my goal to donate $50 to Riley Hospital. I earned the $50 by lawn mowing. Something I could have done differently was to maybe focus on one organization rather than two. This would have helped because I could have helped that one organization more. This inspires me to do more service projects because I would like to help the community. I really enjoyed doing my Make a Difference

Today for my service learning project I headed over to Pulaski County to volunteer with the Habitat for Humanity to help build houses. The trip to Pulaski took about forty-five minutes as the I-81 was calm. Upon arriving at the work site, I took it upon myself to get acquainted with the supervisor currently present. Although, I was unable to locate the supervisor immediately, someone working at the site instructed me to fill out a wavier before I could be assigned any duties. After all that was said and done, I was instructed by a fellow volunteer to pick up a tool belt, some nails and a hammer. The first task that was asked of me was to hammer in some nails on the frame of the house. This task was simple as the places where I needed to hammer were clearly marked. The

There is more to the Union than just the significant health, dental, and other benefits it provides. I have family members who have been greatly affected by the Union. My grandma has been a part of the Union for over 15 years and my mother is currently in her fourth year of being a part of it. Even after my grandma suffered a stroke, 32BJ was there to guide her. My mother is absolutely content with the benefits she gets for herself and her family. However, the Union has not just affected my mother or my grandma, but me as well. While it does affect me in terms of benefits, it most definitely affects me in a way of allowing me to acknowledge what being a part of a community is.

My leadership roles have included being a big brother and volunteer trainer at Brackenridge hospital. The most important skill I have learned as a big brother is how to motivate someone who may not see the consequences of their actions later down the line, or may not see the reward that can be achieved. This is a skill I have been able to implement in my own life, since it can difficult to be motivated by a reward that is 2 or 5 years down the line. However, by improving my ability to project the consequences of my actions, years down the line, I am able better to focus on my goals and to stay motivated. This can be done by simply writing out small goals that can be accomplished now that form a bigger goal, eliminating any distractions, and establishing rewards for when immediate actions are done. As a volunteer trainer at Brackenridge hospital I’ve had to train new volunteers at the help desk. The most important skill I learned as a trainer at Brackenridge was how to help the new volunteers adapt and feel comfortable to the help desk. This skill is very important, since working with a team on a stressful task requires everyone to be focused, and

For the past couple of years I have volunteered in my local church. I have helped my priest by greeting people at the door, and handing out songs and books before mass. In the summer, I would take care of the younger kids at our church camp for a week. I recently started volunteering in our church choir. I now sing in the choir every Sunday mass.

Roughly two years ago during the summer, my dad and I volunteered to participate in a community service event sponsored by his employer, Duke Energy. The event involved volunteers to pick up litter from the local green way and clear a path for trails that hikers and bikers could navigate. We arrived at the green way just before dawn to meet a several of his colleagues and to lay out tools for people to grab. Once the head volunteer gave us a speech about safety and how to properly use the tools, we headed down the trails. We started off by picking up any litter that we saw, which was way more than what I actually thought would be down there, and then started hacking away at the thick grass to carve up a trail. Early on, this was a fairly easy