As a teenager‚ the best things that you can do is volunteer and be involved with your school. One may ask why? Well‚ you are the next generation‚ so why not make your community a better place? You can make your community better just by volunteering at your local church‚ food shelters‚ or just by visiting the elderly and putting a smile on their faces. No act of kindness‚ no matter how small‚ is ever wasted. While in high school‚ I have participated in many clubs. Clubs have been a great impact in
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love to help out the community by volunteering. Many different volunteer programs are appealing to different people‚ like helping take care of dogs and cats at the animal shelter for animal lovers‚ caring for a child at a children’s hospital if they are affectionate towards children‚ or cooking a meal at a food kitchen for a person wanting to be a chef or someone inspired to help the needy. I am called to a different group to volunteer with: the elderly. Each organization helps the elderly in different
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Black MBA Association‚ which is a professional business organization focused on increasing educational and career opportunities within the African American community. Sasha is the director of Leaders of Tomorrow (LOT) program and has served in this volunteer role for six years. Sasha’s outward zeal for improving and enhancing the lives of African American youth was the motivating factor in my interest to interview her. Through various civic activities‚ Sasha and I always cross paths. Sasha shared
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secretly smiled at the thought. This is just one example of how youth volunteers dedicate themselves to assisting others by having “a desire to become more internally aware” and “to understand what [is] ‘out there’”
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This current events article is about a middle aged man named Gregory Kloehn‚ who builds mobile homes‚ using less than $50 by finding recycled items that other people throw out. These shelters provide a safe‚ warm‚ and dry place for homeless who are stuck out in the streets. Despite the seemingly cheap price‚ it made a large difference to the homeless people‚ who promised that‚ if and when they got out of the streets‚ they would give the
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By the time the child is placed in their new foster care home‚ there are many factors and emotions that the foster care worker have to take on to care properly for the child. It becomes the foster care workers responsibility not to only provide shelter and food‚ but to be responsible for the child 24/7 as if the child were their own. The foster care worker will be responsible for keeping the social worker assigned to that child informed about the behavior of the child and so much more. A foster
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I. According to Denver’s Homelessness Plan‚ we are in the third year of a ten-year plan that will end homelessness in Denver. A. Denver spends 70 million annually on services for the homeless. 1. These services include shelter‚ healthcare‚ and other necessities II. Though‚ this has made great strides‚ there are still a large number of homeless in Denver. A. Over 40% of these homeless are women and children. B. Specifically‚ children make up 50% of homeless
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October 29‚ 2012 Hurricane Sandy a category 2 made landfall in New Jersey. Sandy had + 96 mph winds and a 6ft-8ft storm surge. Force winds extend 175 miles out from Sandy’s eye‚ making it much larger than most storms. Before the storm hit many of residence were without power due to sever winds and rain. Many people did not know how to prepare for such a storm in the North East states. Hurricane Sandy weakened to a post-tropical cyclone in the evening before it hit the southern coast of New Jersey
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I. Introduction A. According to the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty‚ in 2008 roughly 670‚000 people in America were homeless. Of that number‚ 58% were living in shelters and/or transitional housing and 42% were unsheltered. Since 2008‚ these numbers have been rapidly growing due to the economic recession. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness‚ presently an estimated 1.5 million people in the United States are homeless. B. I can bet that each individual
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strong rapport with the seniors. I vividly recall my first day as a volunteer‚ stepping into a setting comprised of dejected‚ isolated seniors. By weekly visits to the organization‚ I am able to provide a sense of comfort and companionship to the seniors‚ which inevitably positively impacts their overall health and wellbeing. Furthermore‚ members of the Alpha Lambda Delta society aim to aid the community‚ through various volunteer activities. Prior to Thanksgiving‚ we were able to not only organize
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