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Community Service is a Way of Giving Back Essay
Many think that community service is just something you are forced to do for school. To me, community service is a way of giving back. I like
making people feel as though they matter, and it gives me a warm feeling at the end of the day because I feel I have made a difference. I grow as a
person each time I do community service. Some people do community service because they have to, but I do it because I want to. I have volunteered
about 52 hours of community service in the READ program at a local elementary school on east 3rd street and ave S.
Two days a week, after school I would take the B82 and take it down to east 3rd street and walk to the school. I would wait about 10 min before the
children would come into the classroom. I...show more content...
I would have this little book where in the beginning I would ask the child to read a few words and sounds and correct him if I have to. After that,
we would start to read the story. After we finished the story I would record it on a record sheet and the kid would put a number on a cookie chart,
when we would get up to number one hundred, everyone would have a cookie party.
Each session of the books was in different colors. There were about 24 books in each session. When the kid finished reading the whole session, the
teacher would come by and the child takes a test by reading all the sentences that the teacher gave him and if he does it in 2 or fewer mistakes then
he can go on to the next color set, which is a little harder then the last one. It was very fun working with the kids and I enjoyed every moment I spent
with them. At first I was a little bit shy but it was a matter of time before I become a good tutor and a good friend to every one around me including
the kids, other tutors and the teacher.
My work definitely impacted the society and it benefited. I was one of the many that gave our free time to teach first graders that were reading
behind the other kids in their grade. I did a very good job to teach the kid everything I know and I'm sure I made them a better reader. After every
day, each kid was able to go home to their families and tell them how much better they became at reading. Their families where proud of their
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Why I Need Community Service
Imagine struggling to afford the 'mandatory' three meals you're supposed to consume a day. It would be hard and stressful right? I met over one
hundred hungry people that have to feel this emotion every day of their life, struggling to provide enough food to make a meal, fulfill their hunger, and
stay healthy. On October 17th my senior year of high school I volunteered at a place called "Broad Street Ministry" a Christian based community
church. They have many community service opportunities that you can get involved with. I helped with feeding the homeless or those who cannot
afford to eat. A teacher at my high school introduced me to this opportunity and I took away a lot of memories I will cherish with this event.
On October 17th myself and five other students loaded a van with our health teacher and headed off to Philadelphia. Personally, I volunteered with
this event just for community service hours at first but after I left the event I walked away with more than just some hours that I could write on
paper, I walked away with life lessons and a heavy heart. We got off the bus at our destination around 9:00 AM to help set up the equipment we
were using for the day. As we set everything up I thought that we overdid it because we many tables pushed together forming a long line each table
full of food followed by coolers of soda and water. After we got done setting up we had a brief meeting with a head leader of the Broad Street
Ministry simply thanking us and giving us a run down of the day. I didn't think the event would last too long and no way there would be that many
people coming to get food. I put on the mandatory clothing items we had to wear and got in my place to help out. Noon is when everything started
and people started forming a line with plates in hand. More and more people got in the line and eventually we opened everything up to start
serving people. By the time we started serving there had to be at least 100 people in line, I have only ever saw this happen on TV or in magazines,
never personally. There was such a diverse group of people that came to this event. I noticed the way each persons face lit up when they filled their
plate with what they were served, even if they did
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Essay Community Service Project Reflection
The thought of community service was a bore to me before I began my volunteer work. I dreaded starting my community service although I knew I
had to do it. Where I earned my hours did not even matter to me. I just wanted to get it over with. To my surprise it was not what I expected.
Community service was not a painful experience; it was a very enjoyable and beneficial experience.
I performed my community service with Habitat for Humanity. The non‐profit organization chooses the applicant that purchases the house and
Habitat only charges them the cost of the materials. Almost every worker is a volunteer so Habitat for Humanity does not have to pay a high amount of
wages. I felt good about myself being one of those volunteers. The future...show more content...
We shared many laughs and stories while we worked. It was satisfying to help improve these people's lives.
I took pleasure in how much I learned at Habitat for Humanity. We were doing construction so many tools were involved. On my first day I was
unaware of the names of most tools. Learning the names and functions of each tool was exciting. Being a male, I felt more confident knowing these
things. Construction involves math and clever thinking as well. On my first day I just watched as the processes took place. Eventually, I was helping
make the decisions. I even helped a volunteer build a fence and make precise measurements. The education about construction will benefit me for the
rest of my life.
The amount of respect I earned was an incomparable benefit that I received from community service. Oil companies volunteered their employees on
Saturdays and I spoke with all of them. They recognized my enrollment and scholarship achievements. Some of them see me and recognize me
around town and they ask about how my goals are going. I met people who made a huge positive impact on my life. Employees without a college
education worked full time at Habitat for Humanity, and I realized what I do not want to do with my life. During lunch breaks I spoke with the
supervisor, Alynda Best, and she explained to me the significance of hard work in college. Most importantly, I met the lady who made this opportunity
possible for me and she
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Essay about The Benefits of Community Service
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
–– Albert Einstein
Volunteering personal time to a cause, service, or other person can be very rewarding for various reasons, and in various ways. These reasons can be
specific to the volunteer task, whether the person was recruited for the work or if they found it themselves, life stage of the volunteer, or even the
motivation behind donating time. Although research has proved that volunteering affects each individual differently, it has also proved that the affects
are typically positive. Within the research done on how volunteerism affects well–being a few major themes emerge: motivations behind volunteering,
the affects of volunteerism on the volunteer, and duration and...show more content...
Along these same lines, there is the social capital, which is a persons social network, which provides people with trust and information that can be
useful in the perspective volunteers search for work and gives the place of volunteering the benefit of that same knowledge. The social capital
theory says that we will do something if other people in our social networks are doing it and that is why those with greater social capital are more
likely to volunteer than social isolates. People may begin volunteering because they are in need of a social network, or because their current friends are
all volunteering and they want to be recognized as a member within their group.
Marital and employment status also affects motivation and reasoning behind volunteerism. "Married people are more likely to volunteer than single
people, although single people without children volunteer the most hours." (Wilson, 2000) Research proves that if one spouse volunteers, the other is
much more likely to volunteer as well. Research has also shown that as the husbands volunteer hours increase, the wives will also increase, but as the
wives increase the husbands decrease. The catch within the marital status motivation is that, young married couples may be less likely to volunteer
because they must do more paid work to establish themselves. It would stand to reason that if a couple is married and
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Persuasive Essay About Community Service
As an 18–year–old tennager, I was forced by my parents to participate a summer volunteer program in my freshman year. Even though I felt that I
was a victim of "tyranny" in the beginning, I realized that I actually enjoyed the process of helping people in the middle of the program. Now, I
participate that program every year as an active member, and I have gained the personal enrichment that I am unable to learn from other sources such
as math club or SAT preparatory class. There is no doubt that community service can bring essential benefits in helping students develop theirmoral
value and future interest, and it should be mandatory because some students attempt to utilize community service as a tool for their own profit without
the school supervision. Volunteerismenables students to gain the moral lesson that is vital to their life and develop their future interest. According to
source 2, "community service teaches us through experience – about the relationship between empathy and responsibility, about what it takes to be part
of a community, in essence, about human being". While students are helping their community, they learn the crucial moral lessons in the most direct
and impressive way. Through an actual experience of volunteering, students are reminded that it is their responsibility to serve for their community
because they are a part of it. Helping without any feedback allows them to realize the power of empathy, the essential value that makes the society a
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Community Service For College Education Essay
Getting a Free Education for Volunteering Your Time Performing public service as a student is like getting job experience before you graduate. Why
would any student be against having real world experience added to their resume before they graduate from college? Yet, there are some students who
are opposed to the requirement of public service in exchange for a free college education. However, education systems would be smart to add this
incentive because encouraging students to perform community service is a benefit to students, to the community, and to the entire country. Those who
criticize required public service in exchange for an education may claim that it is using them as free labor. Nothing could be further from the truth!
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The surveys went on to detail wide support among all age groups, indicating that this program could make a huge impact on communities (Lopez).
Finally, those who oppose public service may also undervalue it by thinking that it is not a necessity, nor is it their civic duty. Even President Obama,
in his speech to Texas A & M students, stated that there are still people who feel that "service is nice, but it's not really essential" (Dunham). He also
pointed out that volunteerism is "the very fabric of our nation...the essence of our liberty – that we give back freely" (Dunham). Students who hesitate
to volunteer should know that our country didn't get where it is without effort and sacrifice. In conclusion, is volunteering in exchange for an education
really just giving communities free labor and take advantage of students? Is there enough support, and is it essential? It is clear through many sources,
including our highest leaders, that public service benefits the student just as much as it does the community. Ultimately, students gain not only an
education, but also the pride in being responsible to themselves, to their community and to their
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Persuasive Essay On Community Service
Every Sunday, I have the opportunity to help as a child care worker in my church's nursery; and every week, after spending just one hour watching
over the kids so that their parents can go to service and not have to worry about their children, I remember exactly why I spend my free time helping
others. The term "Noblesse Oblige" is why I choose to be involved in multiple childcare opportunities and community service clubs. I believe it is my
job to make sure those who are less fortunate, or in need of aid, get the help they require and deserve. I take part in different aspects of community
service because it helps better my community and makes me a stronger leader.
For the past three years at Liberty High School, I have been a member of the Key Club community service organization. As a member of this club, I
am able to help with different jobs around the community that help the people in our town specifically. For example, every first Wednesday of the
month I go and help with a project called Snack Pack. During this time, about fifteen other kids and I prepare three weeks worth of food for
seventeen high schoolers in our school district. These are kids that do not have enough money at home to always have food on their table. Snack
Pack plays an important role in their lives because without it, they would not always eat. These kids deserve the chance to live their life and go to
school without having to worry about whether or not the will eat dinner that night. That is why I value my role in this club so much, because I
know what we do makes a difference. When the kids collect their food, they are able to relax a little more knowing that their family will be able to
eat. Another aspect of Key Club that I take part in is Fairy Tale Forest, held at Martha Lafite Thompson Nature Sanctuary. Every year, the weekend
before Halloween, I volunteer, with a handful of others from the club, to go and work at the children's fairy tale nature walk. The past two years I
have been a runner. This means I do the odd little jobs, like run food and drinks around to the different characters that are working in the trail, that
would otherwise be forgotten or not done at all. Although this is a small role, it is what helps make
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My Passion For Service And Community
I was raised up believing in the importance of service and community as I saw my family members and neighbors selflessly help and be in
community with people in need. It is therefore no surprise that I discovered my passion for service and volunteerism while still young. In my
hometown Nairobi, Kenya, I did community service through various ways, including my involvement in the charity walk for Street Children and
Orphans in Kenya in 2003 and the 2007 Brookside Freedom from Hunger Campaign. I participated in the charity walk for these causes and helped
raise money to support street children, orphans, ending hunger, and was recognized as one of the top three people to raise the most funds. In high
school, I volunteered at the St. Nicholas Children's home in Kenya, where I served, played, and was in solidarity with the children. In 2013, I
earned the President's Bronze Standard award given to me by Honorable Mwai Kibaki, the third president of Kenya for being a young person
equipped with positive life skills and a change maker in my community, country, and globally. Understanding where I have come from and how blessed
I have been to have an opportunity to attend college is what drives me to excel academically. It is also what makes me feel I must give back. While at
Xavier, I continued my passion for service by gaining leadership positions in various organizations, including the Students Government Association;
African Students' Association; Black Students' Association, and
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Reflection Of A Community Service
The aim of this essay is to reflect on my learning and development primarily during the process of the community service that I have done with my
team at St. Barnabas home, Klang. I will also be writing on the importance my experiences, evaluating my own development and examine the issues
encountered before, during and after October 22nd. Besides, I will be highlighting on my learning styles, role as the Vice Organizing Chairperson in my
team and how have I improved as an individual after this community service project.
Reflection
By the end of this service, I learned that my team and I are mostly action–orientated people. According to the Belbin's nine team roles model, I am a
mixture of the shapers and implementers. I could not decide on which role do I fall the most because throughout this journey, I have been dynamically
stimulating my team to give our best and training them to be both disciplined and organized (Enciso, 2012), when carrying out our individual duties.
For an example, I encouraged my team to bring in more volunteers from their circles of friends and families so that we would have more helping
hands to serve the children at the home. Besides, I also made sure that every meeting minutes are clearly typed and printed out...show more content...
Firstly, my open area is that I am both a disciplined and practical person. Secondly, my hidden area is that I seldom discuss my issues or negative
feelings to other. For example, I tried to solve the issue of compiling the videos for the final report presentation by myself without discussing the
stressful workload on the editing part to my team members. However, I am still unsure of what are my blind and unknown areas. I am still working
on being a more critical and reflective person so that I can discover more of these regions on
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Narrative Essay On Community Service
Ana Portillo
Professor Russel Whitaker
English Composition I
November 13th, 2017
Narrative Essay Many teens consider community service a chore to complete in order to graduate or something to include on a college application.
Yes, I was one of those teens in my high school years, but because I didn't really know what community service was really about, and I hadn't
experienced it until my history class. With this opportunity I was able to experience this wonderful community service taught me more than what I
could ever give.
When I was in high school I had this history subject in which community service was a requirement to pass the class, because of this we had to
complete 18 hours of community service during the semester. To be honest,...show more content...
I walked there with three girls named Alicia, Veronica and Karla. They showed me where their beds where and gave me a whole tour around the
institution. I was impressed with all the beds they had, it was a huge wide room with many vertically arranged beds for each and every one of
them. I started on cleaning and washing all the bed quilts, and all the girls were willing to help within everything, I didn't feel it was a job. They all
seemed so cheerful and happy because somebody came to help them. Though, I was the one who got out learning things I hardly knew about. They all
looked so mature to me, but I only could see a little girl from the outside.
Then, I saw from across the room a very shy and quite little girl, she barely talked and interacted with the others. So, I went up to her, and asked
her name. "My name is Sofia," she said with tears in her eyes, "What's wrong?", I asked. The other girls told me she had just arrived to the
orphanage a few days ago. So, I grabbed her hand and went to the kitchen to give her a sandwich. She was amazed the whole sandwich was just for
her, and she couldn't stop thanking me. This shocked me a lot because there are many children out there that don't have a place to stay or anything to
eat, while we who have the privilege to have a place to call home, food always on the table, and most importantly a family, we take all that and
everybody for granted. We should place more value on all those
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At first when I found out I was going to have to do this essay I was not too excited. I had no idea what I could possibly write about because I did not
know that things I did on the average day could be considered community service.
"Community Service is important for many reasons. Taking part and volunteering teaches compassion and understanding. 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." Community service is really
easy to get into. I mean, it is not like you have to put out an application and have an interview in order to do it. It is really easy to get into, and is
really fun. It is things you wouldn't even think are considered, like:...show more content...
It benefits me in a lot of ways as well. For instance, I get extra credit, opportunities to get ribbons, and the opportunity to get to go on the canoe trip for
free.
When I help my grandma and the neighbors I help with things around the house, babysit, and do yard work. Babysitting isn't exactly my favorite thing,
but I do it to help out. Most of the things I do I don't mind doing. I love helping out.
At my church I help clean, watch the kids, organize the youth group, plan plays, plan trips, and serve communion. Helping out at the church is
one of my favorite things to do because I get to do so much. My favorite things that I do at the church are with the youth group. I organize who all
needs a ride, what we will be working on that day, and the activity afterwards. I also plan the trips in the summer and which camp we will go to.
And at church events I keep an eye on the kids for their parents and find things fun for them to do. I clean up after church, meetings, and events.
Usually it only takes a little over an hour and a half to do. On Sundays I serve communion and sometimes I even read scripture. We do an Easter play
and a Christmas play every year and I help decide what play we will do and organize the meetings and the performance
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Throughout my life I always thought the little things that we do to help people in our community are the things that made the biggest difference.
I learned in church one day on a Sunday about how to improve ourselves to get closer to God. The pastor said that we are so busy with our daily
activities that sometimes we get distracted on things that matter the most. Sometimes even though we might be busy, we should just take a brief
moment to help others in need. That is why I find community service important because you are not just building our career we are also building
our character as a leader and as a citizen. I never was a good leader; I still struggle to become a leader. I struggle because I am shy; I am shy because
I am scared to rise above others and scared to make a stand. That if I do raise above others my opinion won't matter and if I make a stand the
position I take will be wrong. Sometimes I see people on the bus bully or laugh at others and I think to myself, someone say something do
something, anything. No one ever does. Are those people scared like me, that if they stand up for what is right they will be pulled in to the hate and
get judged? We don't realize that even though people might judge us, but to others you will become a leader, a remodel. That is who I am trying to
become, a person who is not afraid to look the worst of enemies in the eye even though we know we might lose.
I find character the most important out of leadership and citizenship
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Argumentative Essay On Community Service
Community service is beneficial for personal and academic purposes, it helps to develop sense of social responsibility and increases "social
connections" also community service help to improve the individual communication skills "Community service learning offers a unique and rewarding
way for business students to reinforce communication capabilities while developing lifelong career and social skill (Mary L. Tucker et al. 1998) (Anne
M. McCarthy et al. 1998) (John A. Hoxmeier et al. 1998) (Margarita M. Lenk et al 1998)." As this author states community service help to develop
skill that in some point are going to be useful, also research found that community service help individuals to see the world with a different perspective.
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Community Housing of Wyandotte County (CHWC) is a non–profit organization that build, rent and sell houses for lower prices, to families in need,
their goal is to help people to achieve their dream of having a house or rent a house with affordable payments. CHWC not only provide houses but
they also provide financial counseling and homebuyer assistance, that help individuals to get better understanding of the process that need to do
in order to buy a house. The time I was there I felt so welcome by the staff and also it helped me to improve my communication skills since I was at
the front desk receiving calls, interacting with the clients, making appointments to meet with the counselors and receiving the donations from
different associations. I had a lot of good experiences at CHWC, one of the best experiences I had at CHWC was when a family finally get their
house,I was the one who inform them that we had some goods news for them, as soon the family arrived the counselor speak to them and it was
great seeing the face of those people, they were so happy about it. Another good experience was when a man came into the office with flowers and a
cake for one of the counselors, he was so thankful because he was a first time homebuyer, and the counselor form CHWC helped him and oriented
him, it was a great experience, I feel like CHWC gives a lot to the community. It was the
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Benefits Of Volunteering And Community Service
Nowaday, many junior high and high school in the United States require their students to do volunteer, and community service to be graduated.
Volunteering and community service also help students to learn more about social life; it also helps students learn to be responsible for their action.
Most people believe the idea that it would promote a good citizenship and cultivates compassion by that it will help young generations build an
excellent ethnic, and make this world become better.
The world is developing day by day; technology has penetrated to everyone, especially to the young generation nowadays. Young generation paying
their attention to technology, and they do not care about others. Some parents were taking this problem seriously; they gave their kids many ways to
stay away from technology by making them do some activities. Most of the parents send their kids to do volunteer and community services. They
believe that their kids would be a good person, to understand others, and build a better community in this world. Understanding sounds easy, but it is
hard to do. Nobody could see the homeless man in a street, but never understand what happened made him homeless. As the volunteer, and doing
community service, students will start to learn about social life, instead of staying home and playing video games or doing bad habits. Students could
gain more knowledge about life skills, and social life. They could learn how not to be selfish, and sympathy for others. In my
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Argumentative Essay On Community Service
Some individuals do not realize how privileged they may be, while some individuals' live in a bubble and thinks that everyone lives lavish or swell
like they do. However, this is not the case. In the United States of American there are approximately forty–five million people or in other words there
are about fourteen point fiver percent of people who live below the poverty line. That number may seem not that drastic to you, because you may
not come from a household that is considered to be poor, but this level of inequality is not right. Coming form a middle class or upper class home,
having a roof over your head, clothing on your back, shoes on your feet and being able to eat more than one full meal a day makes you privileged!
Instead of keeping your privilege to yourself, ways in which, you are able to give back to not only your community, but other communities as well. Is
through community service. Community service can be defined as voluntary work intended to help people in a particular are. Community service is
normally unpaid work, intended to be of social use, or as a way of not sending an individual to jail or prison, or not paying a ticket. Community service
is done normally around a particular area in which you reside in. In a way this can be beneficial to the community, because it is a way for individuals
to clean up their own neighborhoods, because who does not want their neighborhoods to look appealing. Community service is not solely based
around cleaning up your neighborhood. However, some actions that can be considered as community service are the following: Build a house with
Habitat for Humanity, donating your clothes to goodwill, the church or red cross, donating eyeglasses to organizations who are in need of eyeglasses,
donating your blood in a blood drive, donating food, volunteering at a soup kitchen, helping out at schools and non–profit organizations, send cards to
soldiers over seas, hold a bake sale to raise money for a charity, influencing people to not only register to vote but to also get up and vote, help out in
hospitals, tutor children, coach a youth sports team, babysit children, help out in senior citizen nursing homes, foster an animal from a shelter,
volunteer at police
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For my community service project I did a large variety of projects. I completed a total amount of seventy–one hours, which includes: eleven hours of in
school hours, and sixty hours of out of school service. The groups I worked with include: The Immaculate Conception School, The Merimack Heights
Academy, and the Mad Science program. Overall I had a great time and a wonderful experience serving the community. For the Immaculate Conception
School I did many events. First for the I.C.S I helped to set up with two of the Junior High Socials and ran one of the games at the Halloween party.
Through working with our school I learned valuable skills of teamwork and leadership by working with others and being a role model. I learned how to
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I will never forget this experience and I hope that I am invited back next year to help coach my players. The next community service project I did was
to help renovate The Merrimack Heights Academy. We worked for about four hours at the school painting rooms, fences, and other buildings.
Although we didn't finish the project I feel a sense of satisfaction that I helped to create a school for special needs children. I also feel that It was a
lot of fun to work with all of my classmates outside of school and to see everybody working so hard. The last thing I am going to talk about is my
time as a mad scientist assistant job for the journey program. I did this awesome job for about five hours over a period of five weeks. This was
really one of the most fun things to do because I have a deep love for science and passing that love on to younger bright eyed students is wonderful. I
got quite the experience. After doing this project I can see why teachers get frustrated with us students and all the talking. I realized that the less
talking we do the more we get accomplished and the more fun we end up having. I would defiantly do this service again and I recommend it to all
science loving students. When I first began this project I was daunted by the amount of hours I would have to complete, but accepted the challenge
with much
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"Volunteers are not paid; not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless."– Sherry Anderson (Volunteering Quotes: Finest Quotes). On
average, when people think about community service, they assume that volunteering is just 'hours we need to be able to graduate' and that is it.
Community service is more than just hours; community service is based on the acts performed by someone with the purpose of helping or bringing
benefits to his or her community. People frequently compare community service as a punishment since it is often offered to small–time offenders as an
alternative to fines or jail time. However, community service is the vital force to many communities since they depend on the service made by the
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Volunteering in your community helps solve many dilemmas in your community that descend through the eyes of government and social agencies
(Everything you ever wanted to know about volunteering). Discussing about volunteering to teenagers should be the first step for a better life, since
teenagers are the future of tomorrow and they will leave a mark from yesterday. Volunteering has been such an important matter, that schools in many
countries around the world established that 12th grade students will need certain hours of community service in order to graduate. But the frequent
answers all the schools are getting are "Why do I need to volunteer? I have better things to do!" What people are forgetting is that each one of them is
part of a community, a community that is not perfect and that the government sometimes forgets about their problems or needs, because obviously the
government needs to take care of other things that require more attention. People are not only helping others, they are also helping themselves
(Volunteering). Volunteering is not a new subject now, but people did not perceive it before because as time goes by, volunteering is becoming more
and more popular since each year more people volunteer. Volunteering began around the early 19th century since America was experimenting with the
Great Awakening. The Great Awakening was a period in which the importance of the church was slowly dying and instead the
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Essay On Community Service Hours
Should high school students have to complete community service hours to graduate?
Goal or Thesis
2007, WA high schools to make community service compulsory
The Western Australian Government is introducing a compulsory program which will force all high school students to completecommunity service
work in order to graduate.
The program will require students in years 10, 11 and 12 to do at least 20 hours of community service.
Partnerships between schools and community service organisations will be central to the success of this program.
Community service provides opportunities for young people to develop the values, skills and understandings needed to contribute to civic wellbeing. It
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Activities that benefit the school environment or other students such as an art project, tree planting, recycling, gardening and other maintenance
activities; or filling a support role at a school sporting, cultural or fundraising event.
Activities undertaken following skills development or leadership programs such as peer mentoring or first aid duty in a school playground at recess or
lunchtime.
Activities that benefit the community such as helping to mind lost children at the Royal Show or manning a drinks station for a charity fun run.
Work for non–profit organisations in areas such as aged–care, animal welfare, childcare, culture, education, health, disability services, refugee support
or environmental sustainability.
Participation in citizenship or leadership service activities such as youth advisory councils or youth parliament or ANZAC Day services.
Home–based service given by young carers who have significant responsibility for aged, young, disabled or ill family members.
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What does not count as community service
Social and personal development activities that involve learning new skills or practising and/or developing existing skills through membership of a
sporting, cultural or other kind of club or organisation such as playing in a band, singing in a choir, belonging to a football, drama, surf or judo
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  • 1. Community Service is a Way of Giving Back Essay Many think that community service is just something you are forced to do for school. To me, community service is a way of giving back. I like making people feel as though they matter, and it gives me a warm feeling at the end of the day because I feel I have made a difference. I grow as a person each time I do community service. Some people do community service because they have to, but I do it because I want to. I have volunteered about 52 hours of community service in the READ program at a local elementary school on east 3rd street and ave S. Two days a week, after school I would take the B82 and take it down to east 3rd street and walk to the school. I would wait about 10 min before the children would come into the classroom. I...show more content... I would have this little book where in the beginning I would ask the child to read a few words and sounds and correct him if I have to. After that, we would start to read the story. After we finished the story I would record it on a record sheet and the kid would put a number on a cookie chart, when we would get up to number one hundred, everyone would have a cookie party. Each session of the books was in different colors. There were about 24 books in each session. When the kid finished reading the whole session, the teacher would come by and the child takes a test by reading all the sentences that the teacher gave him and if he does it in 2 or fewer mistakes then he can go on to the next color set, which is a little harder then the last one. It was very fun working with the kids and I enjoyed every moment I spent with them. At first I was a little bit shy but it was a matter of time before I become a good tutor and a good friend to every one around me including the kids, other tutors and the teacher. My work definitely impacted the society and it benefited. I was one of the many that gave our free time to teach first graders that were reading behind the other kids in their grade. I did a very good job to teach the kid everything I know and I'm sure I made them a better reader. After every day, each kid was able to go home to their families and tell them how much better they became at reading. Their families where proud of their Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 2. Why I Need Community Service Imagine struggling to afford the 'mandatory' three meals you're supposed to consume a day. It would be hard and stressful right? I met over one hundred hungry people that have to feel this emotion every day of their life, struggling to provide enough food to make a meal, fulfill their hunger, and stay healthy. On October 17th my senior year of high school I volunteered at a place called "Broad Street Ministry" a Christian based community church. They have many community service opportunities that you can get involved with. I helped with feeding the homeless or those who cannot afford to eat. A teacher at my high school introduced me to this opportunity and I took away a lot of memories I will cherish with this event. On October 17th myself and five other students loaded a van with our health teacher and headed off to Philadelphia. Personally, I volunteered with this event just for community service hours at first but after I left the event I walked away with more than just some hours that I could write on paper, I walked away with life lessons and a heavy heart. We got off the bus at our destination around 9:00 AM to help set up the equipment we were using for the day. As we set everything up I thought that we overdid it because we many tables pushed together forming a long line each table full of food followed by coolers of soda and water. After we got done setting up we had a brief meeting with a head leader of the Broad Street Ministry simply thanking us and giving us a run down of the day. I didn't think the event would last too long and no way there would be that many people coming to get food. I put on the mandatory clothing items we had to wear and got in my place to help out. Noon is when everything started and people started forming a line with plates in hand. More and more people got in the line and eventually we opened everything up to start serving people. By the time we started serving there had to be at least 100 people in line, I have only ever saw this happen on TV or in magazines, never personally. There was such a diverse group of people that came to this event. I noticed the way each persons face lit up when they filled their plate with what they were served, even if they did Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 3. Essay Community Service Project Reflection The thought of community service was a bore to me before I began my volunteer work. I dreaded starting my community service although I knew I had to do it. Where I earned my hours did not even matter to me. I just wanted to get it over with. To my surprise it was not what I expected. Community service was not a painful experience; it was a very enjoyable and beneficial experience. I performed my community service with Habitat for Humanity. The non‐profit organization chooses the applicant that purchases the house and Habitat only charges them the cost of the materials. Almost every worker is a volunteer so Habitat for Humanity does not have to pay a high amount of wages. I felt good about myself being one of those volunteers. The future...show more content... We shared many laughs and stories while we worked. It was satisfying to help improve these people's lives. I took pleasure in how much I learned at Habitat for Humanity. We were doing construction so many tools were involved. On my first day I was unaware of the names of most tools. Learning the names and functions of each tool was exciting. Being a male, I felt more confident knowing these things. Construction involves math and clever thinking as well. On my first day I just watched as the processes took place. Eventually, I was helping make the decisions. I even helped a volunteer build a fence and make precise measurements. The education about construction will benefit me for the rest of my life. The amount of respect I earned was an incomparable benefit that I received from community service. Oil companies volunteered their employees on Saturdays and I spoke with all of them. They recognized my enrollment and scholarship achievements. Some of them see me and recognize me around town and they ask about how my goals are going. I met people who made a huge positive impact on my life. Employees without a college education worked full time at Habitat for Humanity, and I realized what I do not want to do with my life. During lunch breaks I spoke with the supervisor, Alynda Best, and she explained to me the significance of hard work in college. Most importantly, I met the lady who made this opportunity possible for me and she Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 4. Essay about The Benefits of Community Service "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." –– Albert Einstein Volunteering personal time to a cause, service, or other person can be very rewarding for various reasons, and in various ways. These reasons can be specific to the volunteer task, whether the person was recruited for the work or if they found it themselves, life stage of the volunteer, or even the motivation behind donating time. Although research has proved that volunteering affects each individual differently, it has also proved that the affects are typically positive. Within the research done on how volunteerism affects well–being a few major themes emerge: motivations behind volunteering, the affects of volunteerism on the volunteer, and duration and...show more content... Along these same lines, there is the social capital, which is a persons social network, which provides people with trust and information that can be useful in the perspective volunteers search for work and gives the place of volunteering the benefit of that same knowledge. The social capital theory says that we will do something if other people in our social networks are doing it and that is why those with greater social capital are more likely to volunteer than social isolates. People may begin volunteering because they are in need of a social network, or because their current friends are all volunteering and they want to be recognized as a member within their group. Marital and employment status also affects motivation and reasoning behind volunteerism. "Married people are more likely to volunteer than single people, although single people without children volunteer the most hours." (Wilson, 2000) Research proves that if one spouse volunteers, the other is much more likely to volunteer as well. Research has also shown that as the husbands volunteer hours increase, the wives will also increase, but as the wives increase the husbands decrease. The catch within the marital status motivation is that, young married couples may be less likely to volunteer because they must do more paid work to establish themselves. It would stand to reason that if a couple is married and Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 5. Persuasive Essay About Community Service As an 18–year–old tennager, I was forced by my parents to participate a summer volunteer program in my freshman year. Even though I felt that I was a victim of "tyranny" in the beginning, I realized that I actually enjoyed the process of helping people in the middle of the program. Now, I participate that program every year as an active member, and I have gained the personal enrichment that I am unable to learn from other sources such as math club or SAT preparatory class. There is no doubt that community service can bring essential benefits in helping students develop theirmoral value and future interest, and it should be mandatory because some students attempt to utilize community service as a tool for their own profit without the school supervision. Volunteerismenables students to gain the moral lesson that is vital to their life and develop their future interest. According to source 2, "community service teaches us through experience – about the relationship between empathy and responsibility, about what it takes to be part of a community, in essence, about human being". While students are helping their community, they learn the crucial moral lessons in the most direct and impressive way. Through an actual experience of volunteering, students are reminded that it is their responsibility to serve for their community because they are a part of it. Helping without any feedback allows them to realize the power of empathy, the essential value that makes the society a Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 6. Community Service For College Education Essay Getting a Free Education for Volunteering Your Time Performing public service as a student is like getting job experience before you graduate. Why would any student be against having real world experience added to their resume before they graduate from college? Yet, there are some students who are opposed to the requirement of public service in exchange for a free college education. However, education systems would be smart to add this incentive because encouraging students to perform community service is a benefit to students, to the community, and to the entire country. Those who criticize required public service in exchange for an education may claim that it is using them as free labor. Nothing could be further from the truth! ...show more content... The surveys went on to detail wide support among all age groups, indicating that this program could make a huge impact on communities (Lopez). Finally, those who oppose public service may also undervalue it by thinking that it is not a necessity, nor is it their civic duty. Even President Obama, in his speech to Texas A & M students, stated that there are still people who feel that "service is nice, but it's not really essential" (Dunham). He also pointed out that volunteerism is "the very fabric of our nation...the essence of our liberty – that we give back freely" (Dunham). Students who hesitate to volunteer should know that our country didn't get where it is without effort and sacrifice. In conclusion, is volunteering in exchange for an education really just giving communities free labor and take advantage of students? Is there enough support, and is it essential? It is clear through many sources, including our highest leaders, that public service benefits the student just as much as it does the community. Ultimately, students gain not only an education, but also the pride in being responsible to themselves, to their community and to their Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 7. Persuasive Essay On Community Service Every Sunday, I have the opportunity to help as a child care worker in my church's nursery; and every week, after spending just one hour watching over the kids so that their parents can go to service and not have to worry about their children, I remember exactly why I spend my free time helping others. The term "Noblesse Oblige" is why I choose to be involved in multiple childcare opportunities and community service clubs. I believe it is my job to make sure those who are less fortunate, or in need of aid, get the help they require and deserve. I take part in different aspects of community service because it helps better my community and makes me a stronger leader. For the past three years at Liberty High School, I have been a member of the Key Club community service organization. As a member of this club, I am able to help with different jobs around the community that help the people in our town specifically. For example, every first Wednesday of the month I go and help with a project called Snack Pack. During this time, about fifteen other kids and I prepare three weeks worth of food for seventeen high schoolers in our school district. These are kids that do not have enough money at home to always have food on their table. Snack Pack plays an important role in their lives because without it, they would not always eat. These kids deserve the chance to live their life and go to school without having to worry about whether or not the will eat dinner that night. That is why I value my role in this club so much, because I know what we do makes a difference. When the kids collect their food, they are able to relax a little more knowing that their family will be able to eat. Another aspect of Key Club that I take part in is Fairy Tale Forest, held at Martha Lafite Thompson Nature Sanctuary. Every year, the weekend before Halloween, I volunteer, with a handful of others from the club, to go and work at the children's fairy tale nature walk. The past two years I have been a runner. This means I do the odd little jobs, like run food and drinks around to the different characters that are working in the trail, that would otherwise be forgotten or not done at all. Although this is a small role, it is what helps make Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 8. My Passion For Service And Community I was raised up believing in the importance of service and community as I saw my family members and neighbors selflessly help and be in community with people in need. It is therefore no surprise that I discovered my passion for service and volunteerism while still young. In my hometown Nairobi, Kenya, I did community service through various ways, including my involvement in the charity walk for Street Children and Orphans in Kenya in 2003 and the 2007 Brookside Freedom from Hunger Campaign. I participated in the charity walk for these causes and helped raise money to support street children, orphans, ending hunger, and was recognized as one of the top three people to raise the most funds. In high school, I volunteered at the St. Nicholas Children's home in Kenya, where I served, played, and was in solidarity with the children. In 2013, I earned the President's Bronze Standard award given to me by Honorable Mwai Kibaki, the third president of Kenya for being a young person equipped with positive life skills and a change maker in my community, country, and globally. Understanding where I have come from and how blessed I have been to have an opportunity to attend college is what drives me to excel academically. It is also what makes me feel I must give back. While at Xavier, I continued my passion for service by gaining leadership positions in various organizations, including the Students Government Association; African Students' Association; Black Students' Association, and Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 9. Reflection Of A Community Service The aim of this essay is to reflect on my learning and development primarily during the process of the community service that I have done with my team at St. Barnabas home, Klang. I will also be writing on the importance my experiences, evaluating my own development and examine the issues encountered before, during and after October 22nd. Besides, I will be highlighting on my learning styles, role as the Vice Organizing Chairperson in my team and how have I improved as an individual after this community service project. Reflection By the end of this service, I learned that my team and I are mostly action–orientated people. According to the Belbin's nine team roles model, I am a mixture of the shapers and implementers. I could not decide on which role do I fall the most because throughout this journey, I have been dynamically stimulating my team to give our best and training them to be both disciplined and organized (Enciso, 2012), when carrying out our individual duties. For an example, I encouraged my team to bring in more volunteers from their circles of friends and families so that we would have more helping hands to serve the children at the home. Besides, I also made sure that every meeting minutes are clearly typed and printed out...show more content... Firstly, my open area is that I am both a disciplined and practical person. Secondly, my hidden area is that I seldom discuss my issues or negative feelings to other. For example, I tried to solve the issue of compiling the videos for the final report presentation by myself without discussing the stressful workload on the editing part to my team members. However, I am still unsure of what are my blind and unknown areas. I am still working on being a more critical and reflective person so that I can discover more of these regions on Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 10. Narrative Essay On Community Service Ana Portillo Professor Russel Whitaker English Composition I November 13th, 2017 Narrative Essay Many teens consider community service a chore to complete in order to graduate or something to include on a college application. Yes, I was one of those teens in my high school years, but because I didn't really know what community service was really about, and I hadn't experienced it until my history class. With this opportunity I was able to experience this wonderful community service taught me more than what I could ever give. When I was in high school I had this history subject in which community service was a requirement to pass the class, because of this we had to complete 18 hours of community service during the semester. To be honest,...show more content... I walked there with three girls named Alicia, Veronica and Karla. They showed me where their beds where and gave me a whole tour around the institution. I was impressed with all the beds they had, it was a huge wide room with many vertically arranged beds for each and every one of them. I started on cleaning and washing all the bed quilts, and all the girls were willing to help within everything, I didn't feel it was a job. They all seemed so cheerful and happy because somebody came to help them. Though, I was the one who got out learning things I hardly knew about. They all looked so mature to me, but I only could see a little girl from the outside. Then, I saw from across the room a very shy and quite little girl, she barely talked and interacted with the others. So, I went up to her, and asked her name. "My name is Sofia," she said with tears in her eyes, "What's wrong?", I asked. The other girls told me she had just arrived to the orphanage a few days ago. So, I grabbed her hand and went to the kitchen to give her a sandwich. She was amazed the whole sandwich was just for her, and she couldn't stop thanking me. This shocked me a lot because there are many children out there that don't have a place to stay or anything to eat, while we who have the privilege to have a place to call home, food always on the table, and most importantly a family, we take all that and everybody for granted. We should place more value on all those Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 11. At first when I found out I was going to have to do this essay I was not too excited. I had no idea what I could possibly write about because I did not know that things I did on the average day could be considered community service. "Community Service is important for many reasons. Taking part and volunteering teaches compassion and understanding. 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." Community service is really easy to get into. I mean, it is not like you have to put out an application and have an interview in order to do it. It is really easy to get into, and is really fun. It is things you wouldn't even think are considered, like:...show more content... It benefits me in a lot of ways as well. For instance, I get extra credit, opportunities to get ribbons, and the opportunity to get to go on the canoe trip for free. When I help my grandma and the neighbors I help with things around the house, babysit, and do yard work. Babysitting isn't exactly my favorite thing, but I do it to help out. Most of the things I do I don't mind doing. I love helping out. At my church I help clean, watch the kids, organize the youth group, plan plays, plan trips, and serve communion. Helping out at the church is one of my favorite things to do because I get to do so much. My favorite things that I do at the church are with the youth group. I organize who all needs a ride, what we will be working on that day, and the activity afterwards. I also plan the trips in the summer and which camp we will go to. And at church events I keep an eye on the kids for their parents and find things fun for them to do. I clean up after church, meetings, and events. Usually it only takes a little over an hour and a half to do. On Sundays I serve communion and sometimes I even read scripture. We do an Easter play and a Christmas play every year and I help decide what play we will do and organize the meetings and the performance Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 12. Throughout my life I always thought the little things that we do to help people in our community are the things that made the biggest difference. I learned in church one day on a Sunday about how to improve ourselves to get closer to God. The pastor said that we are so busy with our daily activities that sometimes we get distracted on things that matter the most. Sometimes even though we might be busy, we should just take a brief moment to help others in need. That is why I find community service important because you are not just building our career we are also building our character as a leader and as a citizen. I never was a good leader; I still struggle to become a leader. I struggle because I am shy; I am shy because I am scared to rise above others and scared to make a stand. That if I do raise above others my opinion won't matter and if I make a stand the position I take will be wrong. Sometimes I see people on the bus bully or laugh at others and I think to myself, someone say something do something, anything. No one ever does. Are those people scared like me, that if they stand up for what is right they will be pulled in to the hate and get judged? We don't realize that even though people might judge us, but to others you will become a leader, a remodel. That is who I am trying to become, a person who is not afraid to look the worst of enemies in the eye even though we know we might lose. I find character the most important out of leadership and citizenship Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 13. Argumentative Essay On Community Service Community service is beneficial for personal and academic purposes, it helps to develop sense of social responsibility and increases "social connections" also community service help to improve the individual communication skills "Community service learning offers a unique and rewarding way for business students to reinforce communication capabilities while developing lifelong career and social skill (Mary L. Tucker et al. 1998) (Anne M. McCarthy et al. 1998) (John A. Hoxmeier et al. 1998) (Margarita M. Lenk et al 1998)." As this author states community service help to develop skill that in some point are going to be useful, also research found that community service help individuals to see the world with a different perspective. ...show more content... Community Housing of Wyandotte County (CHWC) is a non–profit organization that build, rent and sell houses for lower prices, to families in need, their goal is to help people to achieve their dream of having a house or rent a house with affordable payments. CHWC not only provide houses but they also provide financial counseling and homebuyer assistance, that help individuals to get better understanding of the process that need to do in order to buy a house. The time I was there I felt so welcome by the staff and also it helped me to improve my communication skills since I was at the front desk receiving calls, interacting with the clients, making appointments to meet with the counselors and receiving the donations from different associations. I had a lot of good experiences at CHWC, one of the best experiences I had at CHWC was when a family finally get their house,I was the one who inform them that we had some goods news for them, as soon the family arrived the counselor speak to them and it was great seeing the face of those people, they were so happy about it. Another good experience was when a man came into the office with flowers and a cake for one of the counselors, he was so thankful because he was a first time homebuyer, and the counselor form CHWC helped him and oriented him, it was a great experience, I feel like CHWC gives a lot to the community. It was the Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 14. Benefits Of Volunteering And Community Service Nowaday, many junior high and high school in the United States require their students to do volunteer, and community service to be graduated. Volunteering and community service also help students to learn more about social life; it also helps students learn to be responsible for their action. Most people believe the idea that it would promote a good citizenship and cultivates compassion by that it will help young generations build an excellent ethnic, and make this world become better. The world is developing day by day; technology has penetrated to everyone, especially to the young generation nowadays. Young generation paying their attention to technology, and they do not care about others. Some parents were taking this problem seriously; they gave their kids many ways to stay away from technology by making them do some activities. Most of the parents send their kids to do volunteer and community services. They believe that their kids would be a good person, to understand others, and build a better community in this world. Understanding sounds easy, but it is hard to do. Nobody could see the homeless man in a street, but never understand what happened made him homeless. As the volunteer, and doing community service, students will start to learn about social life, instead of staying home and playing video games or doing bad habits. Students could gain more knowledge about life skills, and social life. They could learn how not to be selfish, and sympathy for others. In my Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 15. Argumentative Essay On Community Service Some individuals do not realize how privileged they may be, while some individuals' live in a bubble and thinks that everyone lives lavish or swell like they do. However, this is not the case. In the United States of American there are approximately forty–five million people or in other words there are about fourteen point fiver percent of people who live below the poverty line. That number may seem not that drastic to you, because you may not come from a household that is considered to be poor, but this level of inequality is not right. Coming form a middle class or upper class home, having a roof over your head, clothing on your back, shoes on your feet and being able to eat more than one full meal a day makes you privileged! Instead of keeping your privilege to yourself, ways in which, you are able to give back to not only your community, but other communities as well. Is through community service. Community service can be defined as voluntary work intended to help people in a particular are. Community service is normally unpaid work, intended to be of social use, or as a way of not sending an individual to jail or prison, or not paying a ticket. Community service is done normally around a particular area in which you reside in. In a way this can be beneficial to the community, because it is a way for individuals to clean up their own neighborhoods, because who does not want their neighborhoods to look appealing. Community service is not solely based around cleaning up your neighborhood. However, some actions that can be considered as community service are the following: Build a house with Habitat for Humanity, donating your clothes to goodwill, the church or red cross, donating eyeglasses to organizations who are in need of eyeglasses, donating your blood in a blood drive, donating food, volunteering at a soup kitchen, helping out at schools and non–profit organizations, send cards to soldiers over seas, hold a bake sale to raise money for a charity, influencing people to not only register to vote but to also get up and vote, help out in hospitals, tutor children, coach a youth sports team, babysit children, help out in senior citizen nursing homes, foster an animal from a shelter, volunteer at police Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 16. For my community service project I did a large variety of projects. I completed a total amount of seventy–one hours, which includes: eleven hours of in school hours, and sixty hours of out of school service. The groups I worked with include: The Immaculate Conception School, The Merimack Heights Academy, and the Mad Science program. Overall I had a great time and a wonderful experience serving the community. For the Immaculate Conception School I did many events. First for the I.C.S I helped to set up with two of the Junior High Socials and ran one of the games at the Halloween party. Through working with our school I learned valuable skills of teamwork and leadership by working with others and being a role model. I learned how to ...show more content... I will never forget this experience and I hope that I am invited back next year to help coach my players. The next community service project I did was to help renovate The Merrimack Heights Academy. We worked for about four hours at the school painting rooms, fences, and other buildings. Although we didn't finish the project I feel a sense of satisfaction that I helped to create a school for special needs children. I also feel that It was a lot of fun to work with all of my classmates outside of school and to see everybody working so hard. The last thing I am going to talk about is my time as a mad scientist assistant job for the journey program. I did this awesome job for about five hours over a period of five weeks. This was really one of the most fun things to do because I have a deep love for science and passing that love on to younger bright eyed students is wonderful. I got quite the experience. After doing this project I can see why teachers get frustrated with us students and all the talking. I realized that the less talking we do the more we get accomplished and the more fun we end up having. I would defiantly do this service again and I recommend it to all science loving students. When I first began this project I was daunted by the amount of hours I would have to complete, but accepted the challenge with much Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 17. "Volunteers are not paid; not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless."– Sherry Anderson (Volunteering Quotes: Finest Quotes). On average, when people think about community service, they assume that volunteering is just 'hours we need to be able to graduate' and that is it. Community service is more than just hours; community service is based on the acts performed by someone with the purpose of helping or bringing benefits to his or her community. People frequently compare community service as a punishment since it is often offered to small–time offenders as an alternative to fines or jail time. However, community service is the vital force to many communities since they depend on the service made by the volunteers...show more content... Volunteering in your community helps solve many dilemmas in your community that descend through the eyes of government and social agencies (Everything you ever wanted to know about volunteering). Discussing about volunteering to teenagers should be the first step for a better life, since teenagers are the future of tomorrow and they will leave a mark from yesterday. Volunteering has been such an important matter, that schools in many countries around the world established that 12th grade students will need certain hours of community service in order to graduate. But the frequent answers all the schools are getting are "Why do I need to volunteer? I have better things to do!" What people are forgetting is that each one of them is part of a community, a community that is not perfect and that the government sometimes forgets about their problems or needs, because obviously the government needs to take care of other things that require more attention. People are not only helping others, they are also helping themselves (Volunteering). Volunteering is not a new subject now, but people did not perceive it before because as time goes by, volunteering is becoming more and more popular since each year more people volunteer. Volunteering began around the early 19th century since America was experimenting with the Great Awakening. The Great Awakening was a period in which the importance of the church was slowly dying and instead the Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 18. Essay On Community Service Hours Should high school students have to complete community service hours to graduate? Goal or Thesis 2007, WA high schools to make community service compulsory The Western Australian Government is introducing a compulsory program which will force all high school students to completecommunity service work in order to graduate. The program will require students in years 10, 11 and 12 to do at least 20 hours of community service. Partnerships between schools and community service organisations will be central to the success of this program. Community service provides opportunities for young people to develop the values, skills and understandings needed to contribute to civic wellbeing. It will enable students to address many general...show more content... Activities that benefit the school environment or other students such as an art project, tree planting, recycling, gardening and other maintenance activities; or filling a support role at a school sporting, cultural or fundraising event. Activities undertaken following skills development or leadership programs such as peer mentoring or first aid duty in a school playground at recess or lunchtime. Activities that benefit the community such as helping to mind lost children at the Royal Show or manning a drinks station for a charity fun run. Work for non–profit organisations in areas such as aged–care, animal welfare, childcare, culture, education, health, disability services, refugee support or environmental sustainability. Participation in citizenship or leadership service activities such as youth advisory councils or youth parliament or ANZAC Day services.
  • 19. Home–based service given by young carers who have significant responsibility for aged, young, disabled or ill family members. 1–2 What does not count as community service Social and personal development activities that involve learning new skills or practising and/or developing existing skills through membership of a sporting, cultural or other kind of club or organisation such as playing in a band, singing in a choir, belonging to a football, drama, surf or judo Get more content on HelpWriting.net