Service Learning Volunteerism

Service learning, volunteerism, and community service are similar since they offer help with the needs of the environment to society or communities. While working on those needs, we get to learn and gain not only knowledge, but a formation of moral and civic values. By performing service learning, volunteerism, or a community service, we have the opportunity to interact with people who failed to get a job that month, people who do not have sufficient resources, and with members of communities that are not legal in this country. In any of these three services it is expected the exchange of material things such as money, but rather a pleasant satisfaction of being able to help others. The three concepts mentioned before are different because service learning involves a method of attaching a social commitment to the learning of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values in order to be competent, while being useful to others. Volunteering involves people who move all the threads …show more content…
just by seeing the huge building and long shelves where they store food, I realized that the Houston Food Bank not only feeds one, five-hundred or a thousand people, but millions of individuals; many people depend on this food bank to survive. I learned that even reality is closer from us, we do not realize it until we get to be there and feel it. I never imagine that in a country of high resources there could be many people without jobs, and most of all, those people were Hispanic. Since I began to develop the duty I was assigned, I felt useful and very motivated to be able to contribute with a grain of sand to help people. when I get home, I told my experience as a volunteer to my father and my brother and how blessed I felt by the things God has given me in all aspects, such as the gift he gave me to have my five senses. Also, the ability to speak Spanish allowed me to