Services Learning Summary I did my volunteering at my job Cedar Wood at Sandy. I work in the kitchen, but I volunteered with the activity director. The first day I helped with games and helped with a farewell event. My work used to be owned by Atria but not Cedar Wood owns the building that we are in.…
In the summer of 2012 I volunteered at the Krazy Kicks Soccer Camp. The camp's purpose is to teach children between the ages of five and twelve years old about basic soccer skills as well as team building activities. When I was younger I went to this camp every summer so I wanted to go back and volunteer. As a volunteer my responsibilities include doing everything possible to help the counselors and keep the campers safe.…
Camp is place unlike any other. It is a place that people’s wall begin to fall down and new relationships are formed. This is bound to happen when you drop 200 teenagers in the middle of the Smoky Mountains without any of their electronics. I was lucky enough to be chosen for the Project Serve team and got to see camp from a new perspective. I got to be a part of all of the behind the scenes work, but also daily interactions with all of the campers due to my job at camp.…
2. RTH 404 Pediatric Disabling Conditions (online elective) 1 Not Important 2 Somewhat Important 3 Moderately Important 4 Very Important 5 Extremely Important 1.…
At St. Jude day school I was a volunteer where I helped distribute the meals for the kids, give them snacks entertain the kids and clean up after. This day school is a church in neighborhood where many people use to put their kids in while they go to work. During the summer I would volunteer where there would be almost 50 kids in the summer camp. It was so chaotic at times. I accomplished gaining great friendships with many kids and teachers that I could never forget.…
I worked at Ahead with Horses at Sullivan Canyon for my community service. Ahead With Horses is an organization that helps many different disabled people, mostly kids, to help them overcome some aspects of their disability. Ahead With Horses throws many different activities like fairs and parties that many of the clients attend. They have a “horse show” where the kids walk around on the horses and sit in different places on the saddle. Ahead with Horses goal is to help disabled, disadvantaged and special-needs children by providing developmental therapy, education and recreation through horseback riding.…
Bob Marley once said, “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.” In today’s society teenagers are expected to succeed and excel throughout their high school journey with the support of their parents, In order to gain a successful future. However, when fate decides to turn its back on you and pose challenging obstacles the opposite occurs, unless you decide to do something in order to turn it around. After moving to the United States at the age of six, and having to learn a completely new language, I realized of how capable I was as an individual.…
Class Connections: 1. Through volunteering at KinderFrogs, I mainly learned that gender can be such a social construct. Meaning, we as humans either consciously or not, typically adhere to the different gender stereotypes that have been presented to us throughout our lives. While we have discussed this concept in great detail in class, we usually focused on the negative aspects of “socializing gender.” For example, we have talked about how boys feel pressured not to cry or play with dolls, girls feel like they can’t be as good at math, and one’s personal appearance determines what gender they are.…
Volunteering at Veterans Affairs Medical Center was one of the greatest experience I've ever had. Sitting down with the elderly and getting to know them, I noticed if more teens could actually sit down and take the time to talk to an elderly person they could gain an opulent amount of knowledge. Sitting down and getting to talk an innumerable amount of veterans as I could, I was intrigued by how each person had a story of their own going through WWII. Voluntarily, I was able to contribute to the organization by having open conversations with the veterans, providing beverages, and having a great time. It wasn't till the end of the program when my perception began to change about the organization I volunteered for, it's more than just about kids…
In school, you study a numerous amount of world cultures, but what is your cultural identity? Some people spend their whole lives trying to answer this question for themselves. But why? Why do people not know where they fit in, or what the significance of the culture they are blind to defines them. Your cultures could define the whole way you live your life style.…
I started to volunteer to help during the summer two years ago, at the kids festival. The Kid’s festival was hosted every Tuesday and Thursday during the summer. They have activities for the kids set up and I kept in charge of the kids, helped them when they asked for it. They have smaller events for the children during the holidays of Christmas, Easter and New Years. They have booths set up and one person oversees a booth, my usual booth is the face painting.…
The name of the non profit religious organization I volunteered for is called Habitat for Humanity. Their mission is to help people in need of a home. They believe that every person deserves to have an affordable place to call home. They have many locations all over the world. The office I went to was located in Harwich.…
This report will demonstrate the high level transferrable skills that I learned during my experience as a volunteer which will play a vital role in my future career in investment banking. Confidence and self awareness - Volunteering is a way of giving back to your community and at the same time it helps in building critical and social skills, the activities I was involved in which will be explained further in outcomes 2 and 3 helped me gain confidence which is important in any future job or career, I gained confidence by working with disabled kids and going out of my way to make kids feel comfortable and welcomed, it also taught me self reliance, that I can work independently in addition to gaining self aware that I can organize myself and priorities through rearranging commitments to get the job done. interpersonal skills and communication skills - Working with disabled kids and blind people in addition to my experience working in the continues training and…
If only there would have been more people volunteering, then so much more people could have been helped. And if more people can be help, then the suffering on earth can be ease. The big problem is that everyone is so busy with their personal life that they forget about the importance of helping others. A positive aspect I saw was that those who were already volunteering were really dedicated and kind hearted. I believe they are making a big impact on every person they touched and made it a task to spread their kindness.…
I feel that working as a member of the staff at a Boy Scout camp is one of the most life changing experiences I have ever had. It taught me the value of hard work, time management, how to work with others, and how to handle large amounts of stress. The most important thing; however, is the relationships that I have built with my fellow staff members. I started work at Camp Rainey Mountain as soon as could the summer of twenty twelve as a counselor in training, or CIT, and I fell in love with it. The department I worked in was The NEW Trail, the camp's program for first year scouters.…