Army Essay
Army Essay: Community service
Community Service refers to service that a person performs for the benefit of his or her local community. Step outside of your familiar environments and expand your horizons. Strengthen your senses of civic engagement and nationalism. Broaden your educational, developmental and social goals. I haven’t done a lot of community service, but I have put several efforts to help do whatever possible. Most of the few things that I’ve done that may count as community service are mostly through JROTC, such as movie nights, football CP’s, Teen Courts, etc. All of the ones listed before were a part of a team. Individually, I’ve helped out at a preschool for free, and at a public library. Community Service is important for many reasons. Taking part and volunteering teaches compassion and understanding. One of my favorite things about community service is that there are opportunities and choices right in your very neighborhood. You can volunteer for something you really believe and have an interest in, and can volunteer as much or as little as you'd like or have time for.
In the JROTC community service projects, or events, I’ve usually been the one who takes orders and follows directions, which I believe is a good learning experience because you actually get to make things happen than telling someone else to make it happen. In the Preschool, I was a caretaker for the kids that were going to kindergarten the following year. Later, as I got to know the toddlers and staff members I learned to enjoy and relish my time there. It was a very rewarding experience and I got to do many things I wouldn't of had an opportunity to do
otherwise. In the Library, I was the organizer in the used book store, and I helped plan fun activities, and events, activities for the summer camp. Every community service project I’ve done so far has been a success.
Sometimes when I go in to volunteer I see other kids taking part. Most of them are
Community Service refers to service that a person performs for the benefit of his or her local community. Step outside of your familiar environments and expand your horizons. Strengthen your senses of civic engagement and nationalism. Broaden your educational, developmental and social goals. I haven’t done a lot of community service, but I have put several efforts to help do whatever possible. Most of the few things that I’ve done that may count as community service are mostly through JROTC, such as movie nights, football CP’s, Teen Courts, etc. All of the ones listed before were a part of a team. Individually, I’ve helped out at a preschool for free, and at a public library. Community Service is important for many reasons. Taking part and volunteering teaches compassion and understanding. One of my favorite things about community service is that there are opportunities and choices right in your very neighborhood. You can volunteer for something you really believe and have an interest in, and can volunteer as much or as little as you'd like or have time for.
In the JROTC community service projects, or events, I’ve usually been the one who takes orders and follows directions, which I believe is a good learning experience because you actually get to make things happen than telling someone else to make it happen. In the Preschool, I was a caretaker for the kids that were going to kindergarten the following year. Later, as I got to know the toddlers and staff members I learned to enjoy and relish my time there. It was a very rewarding experience and I got to do many things I wouldn't of had an opportunity to do
otherwise. In the Library, I was the organizer in the used book store, and I helped plan fun activities, and events, activities for the summer camp. Every community service project I’ve done so far has been a success.
Sometimes when I go in to volunteer I see other kids taking part. Most of them are