Community Service Strengths And Weaknesses

Service & Strengths Strategy
Over the summer, we took a strengths quest to find out our top five strengths. My strengths are belief, developer, connectedness, empathy, and responsibility. I can definitely see where I relate to most of these. I am a pretty positive person. I believe in myself and like to see the best in other people. I will be the first one in line to support a friend. I am a people person. I love investing in people and their lives. I am better at one-one-one conversations than in a big group. One of the questions I have been asked while here in Abilene is, “What are some needs that people need to be aware of?” There are many things I have seen that have caught my attention. As a generation, we should rise up and make these …show more content…
I have been volunteering at an African, refugee church called Shalom. The church meets in a very small building with a small congregation. There are about six or seven volunteers each time that go to help some of the kids with their homework. Both times I have gone I worked with a girl named Denise. She is such a sweet, beautiful girl. Denise is in third grade, or at least that’s what she told me. As a third grader, one learns how to write sentences and learn multiplication. She should not be in third grade because she does not know her alphabet or numbers. She especially does not know how to multiply numbers. I am not an education major so I am not the best teacher. It has been extremely difficult for me to try and teach her while having to do homework as well. She is doing the best she can, but is not able to do her homework because she doesn’t know what to do. So she goes to school with incomplete homework almost every day. It makes me so sad that those kids do not know what is going on in school because they didn’t properly learn the basics. We could use people who are teachers or who have had teacher experience to come and help teach these kids. They could really help the kids catch up in school and actually know how to do their homework. I could start an official afterschool program where kids can come in and get taught what they didn’t learn in school. If they didn’t learn to read, they can be paired up with someone who is good at reading. If they don’t know their alphabet they can work with someone who is good at helping with letters and sounding out words. I have the strength of developing and empathizing. I am able to notice there is a need and want to fix the problem. I have the ability to create an idea of how to fix the problem. I do not have the characteristic of woe. I am not good at winning people over. I need someone to get the word out that there is a program for kids. We would need to