Volunteering At The Boys & Girls Club

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.

For most, lending a hand to someone only really counts for family members and friends. A person never really thinks about all the outside people in the world that need a little help. When the holiday season comes around people may not have the money to feed their families or buy Christmas gifts for their kids. Many agencies broadcast on television how to help these families, not just in your state but around the world. Like most, I for one have never volunteered, but I have donated. For a person that is looking to start volunteering, a little research should be done on different places. I for one like The Salvation Army as an organization. I always see them around the holiday season outside with the bells and red pails. Before volunteering

Our group, which consisted of Ricardo Carrillo, Emilee Cocuzzo, Sidd Dogra, Wurood Mandawi, and Trung Ngo, worked collectively on putting on a successful bingo and bake sale night for the YMCA. We ended up raising $ to help with the teenagers of the YMCA to go on their annual college trip during the summer.

A volunteering experience that holds a lot of meaning to me was being able to participate in a FCCLA Students Taking Action with Recognition (STAR) Event called Advocacy. As part of my class assignment, my partner and I first had to research a need in our community, state, or throughout our nation and then “advocate it”, or make it know, as well as find a solution. Our research quickly showed that Texas was ranked fourth in the nation for the number of children living in poverty and our own county was ranked 116th out of 264 counties in Texas for the number of children living in conditions below the Federal Poverty Level. This project went from being a class assignment, to a volunteer experience that positively influenced and changed my life in so many ways.

One great thing a person can do in life and that is to volunteer in an organization. Volunteering has many things a person can learn from that he or she may not know about. Volunteering is something that people do in spied of themselves. Volunteering, whether on a large or small scale, plays an important role in America. With the changes in the economy, cities depend on Volunteers more than ever. The Salvation Army has volunteers that give food to the homeless and a place where the homeless can lay their head. To understand better the power of volunteers, the benefits of volunteering and one example, The Salvation Army.

My sociological experience at the Houston Food Bank, a formal organization ( a group designed for a special purpose and structured for maximum efficiency), I used my time to social network (social relationships that link a person directly to others, and through them and indirectly to more people). I wanted to see and know why these volunteers were here at the HFB. Their stories along were amazing; some were there

Volunteering is something I love doing, I enjoy helping others that struggle with certain things. I love volunteering because I love giving back to the community and helping others. Communicating and making connections with people is very important because it can make a difference in people's lives and you can also have the opportunity to meet new and interesting people. Volunteering is a great opportunity for you to gain skills and experience working in teams. Volunteering can change someone's life a whole lot, you are doing something for someone that they struggle to do. I fit into the Volunteer community through babysitting at church, translating, and volunteering at the OKFD

For my personal experience project I decided to volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club. The reason that I decided to volunteer at this organization is because it is conveniently located next to my job, but also because I have previously volunteered here too. The Boys and Girls Club (BGC) is a non- profit organization, their mission is: “To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.” BGC is mainly an after school program for young students that are in elementary, middle, and high school. The resources offered at BGC range from character/ leadership programs, education/career, health/ life skills, art, and fitness/ sports programs. In my paper I will be discussing the day-to-day service provided by BGC, the types of problems and nature of the clients served by the agency, and finally my personal volunteer 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.

Why as high school students should we be required to volunteer in our community to receive a high school diploma? No, we as high school students should not be required to participate in a volunteer program in our community because there’s no transportation, no places to volunteer and no time to commit.

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.

Before entering high school, I had never volunteered anywhere besides the occasional road clean-up or helping a few teachers at my old elementary school. But when I found the Interact Club and Student Government Club at Eagan High School, they helped me find opportunities that I profoundly enjoyed. One of my favorite experiences in this past year was when I went to the Feed My Starving Children location in Eagan, and the two hours that I spent there vastly impacted my life and the individuals that I helped.

I’ve volunteered at a range of places of different causes. My time and experience with these charities opened my eyes to the range of issues that they were fighting and what people were victims of. But I also learned about different cultures and how some communities will respond differently

As the subject of my Community project, I have chosen my classroom volunteer work from Foundations 2100 because though it was not an opportunity I specifically chose to go out of my way to go to, it provides me with an insight as to how there might be different cultures in the different communities I experience in different aspects of my life and by practice, it helps me to apply what I have learned in this class so far into such situations. For the past three Thursdays, I have volunteered in an English Language Learners Biology Assistance Classroom at Highline High School for my classroom volunteer work and have thus spent six hours so far assisting in as well as observing. The particular