My Observation Of Community Service

I chose to volunteer at New Directions the shelter for domestic violence. When we decided what community service site we wanted to work at I had to choose between my love for children of my desire to help people who have been put in hard to escapable situations. I value community service and voiding doing things that everyone are already doing and since Bessie Weller was the mandatory location from last year I knew many people would chose to do that location. That is why I chose to do New Directions I figured it would be a location that would not have a lot of Ida B Wells’s students volunteering.
Once I decided what location I wanted to volunteer for I contacted MS Brochette, however I struggled getting in contact with her for a while. Yet when she did call me back I remember her saying the only thing she could hear was my name was Byers. She then set up for the day I could come up to her office and discuss the times I would come in to volunteer. Initially she …show more content…
Originally I just thought people who allowed themselves to become victims of domestic violence were dumb but as I listened to her stories and how people fall a victim I began to grow more empathic for them. Many people become victims of domestic violence because they lack the ability to see the bad in someone and so they continue to be with the person who is physically hurting them.
I cared a lot about my community service but I wish I could have done more. The only reason why I did not do as much as I wanted to was because Ms. Bruchette had a very relaxed and uncaring attitude about this group of volunteers. I assume she had this attitude because it was her final year at new directions before her retirement and wanted to make sure it was easy for her, so she gave herself the smallest amount of paperwork. Which is understandable but at a volunteer I hoped to have done more for the