Reflection Essay: My Volunteer Activities For The Soceity

For twenty years of my life, I have never done any volunteer activities for the soceity. Although I have donated money to some of the organisations, I have never joined any activities physically. As in the class Social Ethic: Phil 123C we discussed at the beginning of the semester about “you” and “me”, I always think in term of “me” instead of thinking for the soceity. I want all my free time after school is only dedicated for myself, even if I just doing nothing for a whole day. When I take the class Social Ethic: Phil 123C I see an opportunity for me to contribute my work for the soceity where I am living in now because it is also required by Suffolk University before my graduation. At first, there were many options and organisations for …show more content…
One of the options I had was working for St. Francis House which located on Boylston street, and it is very closed to the university. I decided right away that I would volunteer for the St. Francis House.
At first, I have a very little expectation about the job which I would take. I thought that volunteer was the work depend on my generosity and there was no strong commitment between the volunteer and the agency. I even felt a little bit nervous and scared when I had to enter the building, because they had a scan machine at the front door to search for weapons. My friends sometimes told me to be careful when I walked pass the St. Francis House building, because it is very scary with all the homeless people stand around that corner. At this point, after finishing my hours for the social service learning program I can see that my thought was so simple like a child. Doing volunteer is a big different from giving the donation. To ensure a good service and a good working relationship between the volunteer and the St. Francis House there are some agreements for me to know. The first one was that I had to attend their orientation before I could actually …show more content…
They are people who are struggling with difficulties in life. They need support and help from the other people to get back to the circle of life. I only worked in the clothing program which provides them a very basic need on outfits, but I do know that the St. Francis House also have many other programs in the building to help homeless people with more advance issues. They open classes for homeless people to have certificates in order to apply for jobs. They even have a program which is only for women to help them mentally and physically. Sometimes meeting and working with the people in the St. Francis House was the highlight of the day for me. Besides the drunk man and others difficult situations I have met many wonderful people. They told me jokes about their life, and gave me compliments which gave me a lot of motivation to start a new day at school after that. Some of them even asked for my name so they could asked for my service on their next appointment. They made me feel that I have done my job well on that