This year I participated in many community service projects; projects such as singing for various organizations with my chorus class also volunteering at Buffalo’s chicken wing festival. The project‚ which I enjoyed most though‚ was volunteering for Habitat for Humanity and helping rebuild a home. The house which Fisher Price employees and I helped rebuild was located in South buffalo. The organization Habitat for humanity is a nonprofit‚ ecumenical Christian housing ministry. That seeks to
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Amelie Faith Vincent I am Amelie Faith Vincent. My values are God‚ family‚ & friends come before anything. I have learned through all this is I truly enjoy helping in anyway I can with anything. I have a much bigger understanding and much more empathy for volunteering now that I have experienced it. I now know that I want to help people in any way I can because I am a very happy person and I love when other people are happy also! Volunteering and helping other people when they need it makes
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"We make a living by what we do‚ but we make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill’s words have great meaning. They show that in the process of helping others‚ you help yourself as well. Volunteering is a great way to give back to your community‚ help others‚ and help yourself. It can help you learn more about yourself or put you on the right track to a possible future career. I know this from my own experiences. I started volunteering a few years ago and I believe it has truly changed my life
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For my service hours‚ I focused on my issue on the treatment of the animal and volunteered at Bunny Bunch in Orange County. During my time there‚ I helped around with Carolina‚ the person in change‚ doing any task need. Some examples are bagging hay‚ sweeping the cages for bunny dropping and hay‚ filling up water bowls‚ and stocking inventory. One day during Sunday‚ it was happy hour‚ so over 20 bunnies were brought into the bunny shelter to interact with each other. All I did was to make sure the
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Hour 1 Today I started my first hour of community service. I decided that I would donate some of my clothes and toys. First I had to think about where I wanted to donate too. I knew I wanted to help out kids in need‚ so I looked up hospitals that accepted donations. It turned out that a children’s hospital had a thrift shop as a means of getting money‚ so I looked into what they accepted. Then I went through everything I owned‚ and got my brother and sister to do the same. Then I sorted everything
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For my service hours this year‚ I went to the Collinsville KC to serve meals for veterans and families of veterans. I helped at the Edwardsville Food Pantry moving and organizing different types of canned or packaged meals. I went to the St. Mary’s auction and served meals and helped with the auction. Lastly I went to the Edwardsville library‚ and I helped set up crafts and helped the kids out while they did their craft I also helped do some other little things around there. The day I went to the
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How are you involved in giving back to others and/or your community? I try to extend an effort towards giving back to others and my community. Through my agriculture class‚ my fellow classmates and I have done numerous projects in an attempt to give back to local people and our community as a whole. For instance‚ my agriculture class has given back to local people by doing volunteer work‚ such as pouring new concrete driveways‚ as a part of our learning program. Also‚ we have done numerous activities
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NGOs are difficult to define and classify‚ and the term ’NGO’ is not used consistently. As a result‚ there are many different classifications in use. The most common use a framework that includes orientation and level of operation. An NGO’s orientation refers to the type of activities it takes on. These activities might include human rights‚ environmental‚ or development work. An NGO’s level of operation indicates the scale at which an organization works‚ such as local‚ international or national
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Hayden Raulerson Dr. Marshall ENC 1102 1 December 2014 Community Service Experience Overall‚ community service is paying back to people and animals that are in need. That is why it is necessary for the people that are able to participate do. Not only should people do it because they have to‚ they should want to. I have learned this personally through my community service experiences. By participating in community service it has allowed me to change as a person and look at life differently. In
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In every community‚ children find their own recreation and companionship in the streets. Such as joining gangs or being homeless. That’s why we as Americans need to step in and help those children have a better sense of stability and care in their lives. By donating your time and money we can make that happen. For every person who donates their service and money‚ just imagine how many lives we could change and think about the crime rate going down amongst youths. There are many children out there
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