Community Service Ideas

em
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:32:08 +0000

I really don’t mean to sound like a heartless teenage who only wants volunteer hours for the sake of college applications…

To be honest, I have really done anything yet, and I am already a junior. I know you are all tsk-tsking. So help me out here!

-I was supposed to do some volunteer stuff for the election but I had to work on all the training days so it never did work out, and I do feel bad about it.

-BOTH the librairies I belong to told me that they do not need any volunteer help!!

-You have to be 18 or older to volunteer at the zoo, which was something I was actually really interested in seeing as I am interested in nature & the environment.

-You have to be 18 and a high school graduate to volunteer at this Literacy Center in the area, which teaches adults to read. They have training workshops like twice a year, but the organzier said I really did have to be 18, in order to maintain the peer-aspect of tutoring an adult. I was really disappointed by this because I don’t think it’s so much of a problem, it’s not like I would be condescending towards them or anything. And reading is such a big part of my life, I really wanted this to be able to happen.

So enough excuses!
*Something I was thinking of doing was organizing a book drive at my school. There are plenty of organizations we could send the books to afterwards.
*Of course, there is always tutoring.

Any other ideas? What are some community service activities you are/were involved in that are important to you or that you really enjoy doing?