Educating Volunteer For 5 Hours

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During my volunteer hours I learned a lot about my own community I that I have not been able to experience. For example I have never been able to participate in so many writing programs and workshops in my local high school, this is because I also did not attend my own local high school because my mother did not allow me to instead, she asked me to attend a charter school. By partnering with LA826, I was able to attend different writing workshops where I would help different high school student write essay, cover letters, and personal statements. Furthermore I believed that most of my activities consisted of just being able to listen to some of the students.

I have had a passion for art since childhood. Over the past three years i have sought to use this enthusiasm to good effect. I focused on discovering new talent and learning about the process of creation and also the curating of exhibitions. This lead to me creating a pop up exhibition for students at Central Saint Martins in a vacant space on the Portland estate in

I have been participating in 4-H since 4th grade. During all that time, I have done multiple volunteering acts to help the community I live in. Each year, my 4-H club works a four hour shift in the food stand, followed by a 45 minute shift of the Pavilion. I have helped someone who has needed it, whether it’s taking someone’s order of food, or letting a community member know rules and regulations of the Pavilion. By volunteering at the 4-H food stand, it has tremendously helped other 4-H members and the community because it lowers their membership fees, it has allowed 4-H members to be able to go to leadership trips, or other trips, at a lower cost, and lastly, because it allows everyone to have a large variety of fantastic food all day!

Tina Pelletier is a Communications Officer at the Prince Albert Grand Council, which represents 12 First Nations in northern Saskatchewan. She is responsible for health promotions and communications in the area of Health and Social Development and has been actively involved in providing communications support to various Emergency Operations Centres created to deal with wildfires, oil spills and other health-related states of emergencies.

(Wilson & Musick, 2000) Volunteering at City Youth gave me the opportunity to invest in children’s lives, and hopefully, have a positive impact. This semester, we played games, laughed, ate, and shared about our days. My experience at City Youth Ministries was not “ a short-term artifact” (Astin, Sax, & Avalos, 1999). Hopefully, this service participation will enhance my opportunities for graduate schools (Astin, Sax, & Avalos, 1999). By volunteering at City Youth, I accepted the social responsibility that I have to the children of

Art has a profound effect on society. Maya Cherbo argues that art is completely intertwined in our daily lives. It is found in every medium and in every culture. Everything from social status, to basic self expression, and even societies using art for solidarity and distinctiveness prove this point. Our species is inherently “artsy” - it’s in our DNA and it is a vital part of the human spirit. Art is something ordinary that is turned special and that is exactly what we are doing in this current unit. We are using the artistic platform of theatre to elevate our poems about social challenges we face in 2017 to make a statement. This project isn’t just pointing out the problems in the world, we are elevating it into a powerful piece of

The community engagement and service I’ve participated in has been unique. My community of Hudson, NY is home of the formerly know New York State Training School For Girls opened in 1904. The reformatory school housed “juvenile delinquents” ages twelve to sixteen, and among the most notable was jazz singer, Ella Fitzgerald. Through The Prison Public Memory Project my team and I were able to exhume the history of the prison through records kept by the institution. At the NYS Archives located in Albany, NY we analyzed legitimate documents recovered from the institution itself. We helped some local family members find record of their loved ones who had been detained in the reformatory. Some of the material unearthed seemed to suggest the institution

social, and commercial forms.” (American for the Arts 2017) I will also provide ways to achieve

We worked on building awareness surrounding animal rights at St. Edward’s University as well as making an impact on the animal community. We spread awareness by providing flyers about the animals we helped and handed out brochures from the Austin Zoo during our service project. We identified a need, in this case Austin Zoo’s lack of blankets for their animals and contributed our time and manpower towards helping the Austin Zoo in any way needed. On April 9th, 2016 we assisted the zoo by transferring loads of sand in four wheelbarrows to the mammal area enclosure. At the enclosure, we filled buckets with sand and repeated this process for about three hours. In addition, we gave elementary students the opportunity to donate linens and help build blankets so that they could engage in the service project and help Hilltop Leader members make a grander

For my first event paper, I decided to go to the Dallas Art Museum over the first weekend in February to see a painting. I decided to go visit the European Art portion of the museum as I have always been interested in it. This painting emphasized the true meaning of a mother’s grace in response to the children’s needs and attributes. Overall, the painting “Nature or Abundance” by Léon Fédéric uses vibrant, yet contradicting, colors and tender strokes to create an emotion of care and nurture, emphasizes the strength and hold onto the children by using hair as branches and wheat sheaves for leaves and flowers, and displays a sense of age, time, and effort given to these children using symbolism.

I am a little nervous but also very excited about volunteering. I am nervous because I do not know entirely what we are going to do or who we are going to work with. But, I am excited because I am looking forward to meeting the kids and getting to know them. I know some things about Perspectives because my Uncle works there so he has given me some information, helping me to have some prior knowledge before starting volunteering. My biggest challenge when it comes to serving will be getting there as constantly as I would hope to because with sports, it is hard to have the time every week to volunteer. I hope that through volunteering at Perspectives I will be able to help the children who are there to have fun even though their families are

The summer before eighth grade, I decided that I wanted to start volunteering. After researching many different organizations, I came across Nurses for Newborns, a non-for-profit organization in St. Louis that works to prevent infant mortality by providing families with in-home nursing visits. As a volunteer there, I organize donations and other necessities that the nurses take with them as they visit these families. One day, when I was volunteering, a nurse asked me to help take donations out to her car. As I was carrying the supplies to her, she told me about the family that was receiving these donations. The first time that she visited this family, she noticed that they were using dirty rags in place of toilet paper, unable to afford basic

As part of our graduation requirements, we each had to complete fifty hours of community service during the course of junior year. For me, Free Arts was both the most intriguing option and the one closest to my house. The organization specializes in bringing art therapy to kids of all ages living in group homes. Because I was too young to directly work with the kids, I spent my hours working around the office. At the end of my time, they were so impressed with me that I was offered a seat on the art auction board.

For this reflection paper I decided to visit the Young at Art Museum. It is located on Southwest 121st Avenue and is just south of 5-95.(Figure 1) I decided to go on a Friday and I think a few schools may have had the same idea. Upon first arriving I knew, almost instantly, that Young at Art was designed with the youth in mind. Which is great reasoning for the name Young at Art, but I hadn’t thought much of it before my visit. At first look I noticed that there was much to do at Y.A.A. and I was not sure where to start so I checked out the information wall which let you know all the different sections and styles of art they had on exhibit. As I began to walk through the first piece that caught my eye was a realistic sculpture of a young girl constructing a puzzle. (Figure 2) At first I thought she was really just a child at the museum playing and then I realized how well the artist captured the moment with the sculpture and I knew that I was hooked. I could not wait to experience more, so I quickly moved forward through the exhibits, possibly a bit too fast and I decided to make extra stops while on my way back. Another amazing piece had caught my eye named “Sweet Madness” which depicted perfect circles which were made using many different colored pill capsules. (Figure 3) I was really able to relate with this piece and because of the feelings I received, I really enjoyed my overall experience. From the moment I arrived I could tell that the environment had a life of its