Volunteering Benefits High School

After high school, I plan to continue by volunteering at events around the community and the college I will be attending at. I am going to participate and join clubs at the University of Washington that focus on community service and provide me opportunities to give back to the community. I think that community service is important in shaping an individual and it would not only benefit me, but I want to give back to the community gave me the opportunities I have now.

In todays society there are many things that people can be involved in. One is volunteering. Local organizations around my community are always looking for people to come in and help volunteer with the young and the old. A local Boys and Girls club is one that I volunteer at when ever I get a chance to. Volunteering with the Boys and Girls Club has allowed me to help the boys and girls to have a safe place to come learn and grow while having fun. It is a place where young people can come and know someone cares about them. Volunteering makes a difference in the lives of boys and girls in the community. (Volunteer1) Volunteering with the Boys & Girls Club has taught me more about the organization, what a volunteer does, and what I can learn from volunteering.

Volunteering is considered doing a good deed in which can help to implement development skills such as, meeting new people. Who knew that enjoying yourself and meeting new people will be such fun while volunteering your time and assistance in helping someone else? Preparing and packaging hot food to be delivered to senior citizens in the local community really made me feel like a did a great deed!

It can also help me gain scholarship opportunities and enhance my character which will help make me a better person with a noble character. By advancing my character, I will influence people that I run into in a positive way. It will also help me get more involved in my community. Although I don't have much volunteer experience, I hope to earn more service hours. I personally like to help people because it makes me feel good to help someone else.

Currently, I volunteer and participate at numerous places; that include recreation centers, my current high school, public library, and etc. I commit my time to serve the community and the school with events like open house, food drives, school tours, and etc. I volunteer for different programs like lifeguard, link crew leader, tutor and etc. Throughout my high school life, I always took charge as a leader to help the community and the school with any occasion. I look for opportunities to help the community and school and that includes charity work, food drives and etc. I will contribute to the local and the community of the Laurier by volunteering for different occasions like university tours, charity work, and food drive. I also will contribute

Around the age of 8, my parents inducted me into a C.C.E. program where I received 3 sacraments of the Catholic Church. During my last year before receiving Confirmation, we were all assigned to do volunteer hours in the church. It was either helping assist during mass or help assist C.C.E. instructors. Since I hadn’t taken alter server courses, I got stuck with being a teacher’s assist. I just wasn’t fond of the idea of being stuck in a room with younger children. All I could do was hope I was assigned to an older age group.

Volunteerism is a path to responsible citizenship. Volunteering is a form of generous behavior, with a goal of providing help to others, a group, an organization, a cause, or the community at large without expectation of accolades or material reward (Musick, 2008, p 3). Volunteer work encourages good citizenship. It builds trust with others and public institutions. Trusting people are more likely to get involved in leadership positions or even politics. It gets individuals involved by letting them meet a wider range of people, then learning more about local issues and legislation. Volunteer work teaches civic skills, which can then be used in the political arena, and help individuals become aware of social problems needing solutions (p 460-461).

“Volunteering could help colleges bridge the gap between the academic world and the world beyond it” says Eggers. Volunteering could be done at many venues and by volunteering at work places or in a field they prefer to, students can get to know that field better. Acquiring that perspective will connect the students to that field of work allowing them to gain experience.

As an incoming high school student, I have already started thinking about college. What do I need to do to get them to notice me? What do they look for in a student- volunteerism, leadership? My parents helped me figure out what I could do to separate myself from others in a positive way. Just like every other kid, I have many extracurricular activities and play sports, but none of them stopped for a second to think about ways to help others instead of helping themselves.

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.

Imagine immigrating to a foreign country where uncertainty and unfamiliarity awaits. That was my family in October 2008 when we arrived in America as refugees, deprived of basic necessities such as food and clothing. We faced difficulties adjusting to the culture and meeting our needs. However, volunteers of all ages from different charities delivered and donated foods, clothing, and presents, and warmly welcomed us with comfort during a time of major adjustment in our lives. They guided my family in our transition as we apply for schools and jobs. Volunteering was also a rare and uncommon practice in my birth country, so the number of volunteers helping us in America made a good impression of the country to my family. As I grew up and attend high school in America, I realized the amazing and endless opportunities for young people to make a difference in other’s lives by feeding the homeless, responding to natural disasters, caring for the elderlies, cleaning the community, saving the lives of animals, and much more. Community service should be required to graduate high school because it provides essential skills, builds character, and promotes higher education for a successful life.

Many high school students do not have volunteering program. There are many ways to participate in our community. Schools should require students to participate in volunteer program in their programs in their communities as a requirement for graduation because, it will make students get ready to college, it gives life and work experience for future, and it also strength our community.

During high school I was one of the leaders of our high school volunteering organization. I have volunteered NTFB, Texas Discovery Garden, Angel Tree for the salvation army, Race for the cure, YMCA turkey Trot, Blood Drive of 2014, the Balloon Festival, and the MLK convention. I was also the founder and the leader of the middle eastern club. I was a member of our high school student council and a member in LULAC. I was also the treasure in our high school’s choir. I worked at my high school’s admissions and testing center. I also volunteered at the GO center which helps the students apply for scholarships and FAFSA/TAFSA paper work. All of this community work has made me understand what is the meaning of giving back to the society and helping

Discussing about volunteering to teenagers should be the first step for a better life, since teenagers are the future of tomorrow and they will leave a mark from yesterday. Volunteering has been such an important matter, that schools in many countries around the world established that 12th grade students will need certain hours of community service in order to graduate. But the frequent answers all the schools are getting are “Why do I need to volunteer? I have better things to do!” What people are forgetting is that each one of them is part of a community, a community that is not perfect and that the government sometimes forgets about their problems or needs, because obviously the government needs to take care of other things that require more attention. People are not only helping others, they are also helping themselves (Volunteering).

I am very interested in the military, did not know why at the time I entered high school my heart to switch sides who used to work in the office now want to work so as to guard and protect the country wholeheartedly. But obstacles arose when my father did not approve, I need to apply to the school office job prospects. I lived with a heavy heart, all the dreams of my father disappeared when he suggested all failed. But I still want my dad to the office or work the same as he was a teacher, I finally entered the University PGRI Semarang with the freedom to participate Student Regiment. Student Regiment is a unit of student activities and students who are trained by the military, it makes me a little happy. I often pensive when dreams do not