Community Service

Community service means giving back to the community by volunteering a few ours out of my day to help someone else. I have done community service before, but after Katrina I try to give back in every way I can. I’ve been blessed. I just think about all those who helped me in my time of need. Clothes, school supplies, food, etc. were donated to me and there was no way to express how thankful I was. I still am and I count my blessings everyday. That is the main reason why I try to go out of my way to help others in need. I love volunteering. I know how it is to lose everything so when the Red Cross is having an event or there is some kind of drive (clothes, food, etc.) I don’t mind helping out. My favorite place would have to be nursing homes or places where there are people that haven’t seen their family members in a long time. They’re extremely appreciative of the time you spend with them and that really warms my heart. They’re very grateful. Another place I volunteered that I enjoyed was the Brent Woodall Foundation. This foundation is geared towards helping families assist their Autistic children. Those children there were extremely sweet. It’s a shame that they’re label and written off when truthfully most of them were extremely smart kids. This year I want to make it a habit to find somewhere to volunteer my time at least every other weekend. A little help can go a long way. You can make someone’s day and not even know it by volunteering.

Community Service

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When I was little younger and little less mature than I am now (last year), I used to dread the idea of community service. I understand that the golden rule is to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, however, my mentality was that I shouldn’t do unto others because I might get done in doing it. I wanted to take care of myself before anyone else because I felt that no one would ever over extend themselves for me. Then I came to the realization that the reason no one extended a hand in good favor toward me was because they thought the same way I did, but on the other hand if everyone was to work toward the common goal of bettering all of humanity beginning with their individual communities there would less violence and more love. Yea, I know that sounds weak but its real. Volunteerism is very important. There are many people in this world that need our help. Truthfully, I was a person who did not do anything that didn’t help me and thus community service was not in the cards, until I found out a way to benefit from volunteering. So, in order to excel in a field as extensive as medicine I knew I would need to have extensive knowledge, I was taught that it is never too early to learn and never to early to prepare. During the first semester of my senior year I served 90 hours of community service with MedShare International, Inc. My work at the MedShare organization gave me experience in sorting surgical steel and other emergency supplies, creating emergency surgery and ophthalmology kits to send to Third World Countries. In my service to the community I was able to help with intake of liquid meds and equipment from Emory, Grady, and Dekalb Medical hospitals to help bridge the medical and health disparity between minorities and whites in society. Although, all of that sounded good I was more impressed at how I could help myself by helping other people, not by expanding my knowledge or pocketbook, but by understanding how important my community is to me, and vice versa.

Me personally I have never participated in community service not once. If I would do it I would do a community with alot of children why because they are  the ones who going to run the country after us. Some need a good role modle because some arent as luckie to have a good one. Me myself was to stubborn to look up to someone I always wanted to do things the hard way. We need to avoid these things. How I feel about community service is that its boring to me, but in the long run it helps someone. I personaly havent ddone any but i know some people that has and they feel special afterwards because they feel they did there part for that community. Thats all and good I just cant see me doing something like that because Im not the nicest person to do that.

Community Service

Community service to me is when people are a group of people go to different communities or other places and help to improve. Community service is not work that you will get money for. People does community service out of the kindness of their hearts. When I was in high school we had to do a certain amount of community service to graduate. We had to do about forty hours of community service. On my own I helped out at a shelter to feed the homeless. This was two years after Hurricane Katrina. The shelters were full, men, women, and children were living in front of City Hall, and under the Claiborne Bridge. People were forced to live in these conditions because the amount it cast to live in New Orleans was extremely high. Most of the people who were out there had jobs. Some even had kids who were in school. Around Christmas time one of the clubs that I was a member of went to City Hall and under the Claiborne Bridge to give food, toys, toothbrushes, toothpaste, combs, brushes, and other hygiene materials. I felt good because as we were giving the food and hygiene materials to the people they knew that somebody cared about them. As we gave the toys to the kids they smiled and gave us hugs. Another community service project I was involved in was with the softball team which I was a member of. We went to a park that had a softball field that wasn’tin good shape. We helped to put the dirt and chalk on the field. It was a very dirty job but it was fun.

Serving the community

To me community service means doing your part in the community to help others and be a benificial factor in society. Community service could be anything ranging from feeding the homeless to helping rebuild a house, any of these can be considered community service, some one picking up trash and throwing it away  in a trash can is community service. It all depends how you look at it but to me community service means just what it’s name says “serving the community”. I have done community service before in the form of giving food and clothes to the homeless. To be honest at first i was very relucant to do any form of community service just because i did not want to do community service but with some persuasion by my mother i eventually gave in and decided to go and help out the cause. The feeling it gives you to know you have helped out another human being, that you have made a significant impact in that person’s life is satisfying in itself. Any type of community service would interest me i am not partial to a specific type of service as long as i know that i am helping some one else out then i am happy. The best community to target would be a poorer community with people who are much less fortunate than others or to help out a group of homeless people who have absolutely nothing to their namesake.To know that i am helping someone else in any way makes me feel better better as a person and helps to boost my moral character overall.

Community Service — We All Need Somebody To Lean On

Community service means a lot of things to different people. For example, it can mean “making someone look generous”, it can mean a pretty nice looking job admissions application, or it can also mean “Hey, I did something for someone else, and I didn’t have to. I feel good about myself”. To me, community service means helping others help themselves. By this I don’t mean if you can’t do something that I won’t help you. I just mean that if I help someone in a community, then maybe others from that community will say to themselves “If she can come out here and give us a helping hand and she doesn’t even live here then surely I can help improve my own community”. Basically community service is important to me, because I can help others and I can learn (and perhaps even teach) a lot from it. I have participated in community service for years through different groups including my church groups and my school groups. I have gone with different church members to nursing homes to sing, talk to, and just keep the elderly that live there some company. Those experiences were very valuable to me because the fact that I could put a genuine smile on a man or woman’s face that possibly helped shape my past and that has probably endured many struggles in doing so really touched me. Also in trying to make someone feel good, I personally felt good about myself, like it kind of gave me more self worth (if that makes sense). My feelings about involvement in community service is that everyone who is able should at least try it out. I know that community service may not seem like some people’s cup of tea, but my opinion is how would you truly know if you don’t try it. Maybe you’ll find yourself liking it, and that would be a good thing because more help is always needed. I think since I am into animals and stuff like that then some type of community service that helps animals out would interest me. There is no particular community that I would target because if a community needs help, then they need help. If you are able to get there then it shouldn’t really matter where it is. I would just like to end this blog post by saying that I am a first-hand witness to the fact that community service can, and does touch people to their souls, and I think that community service helped me learn more and more about who I am as a person; by continuing in community service, I hope that I can keep learning about myself.

Community Service

When I was little younger and little less mature than I am now (last year), I used to dread the idea of community service. I understand that the golden rule is to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, however, my mentality was that I shouldn’t do unto others because I might get done in doing it. I wanted to take care of myself before anyone else because I felt that no one would ever over extend themselves for me. Then I came to the realization that the reason no one extended a hand in good favor toward me was because they thought the same way I did, but on the other hand if everyone was to work toward the common goal of bettering all of humanity beginning with their individual communities there would less violence and more love. Yea, I know that sounds weak but its real. Volunteerism is very important. There are many people in this world that need our help. Truthfully, I was a person who did not do anything that didn’t help me and thus community service was not in the cards, until I found out a way to benefit from volunteering. So, in order to excel in a field as extensive as medicine I knew I would need to have extensive knowledge, I was taught that it is never too early to learn and never to early to prepare. During the first semester of my senior year I served 90 hours of community service with MedShare International, Inc. My work at the MedShare organization gave me experience in sorting surgical steel and other emergency supplies, creating emergency surgery and ophthalmology kits to send to Third World Countries. In my service to the community I was able to help with intake of liquid meds and equipment from Emory, Grady, and Dekalb Medical hospitals to help bridge the medical and health disparity between minorities and whites in society. Although, all of that sounded good I was more impressed at how I could help myself by helping other people, not by expanding my knowledge or pocketbook, but by understanding how important my community is to me, and vice versa.

Community Service

COMMUNITY SERVICES MEAN TO TAKE IN ON A JOB AND HELP YOUR ENVIRONMENT. COMMUNITY SERVICES MEANS TO TAKE TIME AND HELP YOUR COMMUNITY BECOME BETTER. COMMUNITY SERVICE IS TO HELP SEEK A MORE SUSTAINABLE LIFE IN LIVING. COMMUNITY SERVICE IS WHERE YOU FELLOWSHIP IN HELPING GIVING OUT FOOD TO THE COMMUNITY, OR JUST HELP KEEP YOUR ENVIRONMENT CLEAN.

YES, I HAVE PARTICIPATED IN COMMUNITY SERVICE, WHEN I WAS IN CHURCH. WHEN I PARTICIPATED IN MY CHURCH COMMITTEE IT ALLOWED ME TO HELP OTHERS IN A BELIEF THAT THEY DIDNT CARE ABOUT AT FIRST. IT SHOWED THE YOUNGER PEOPLE TO REALIZE THAT OUR CITY IS LOVED AND IT IS CARED ABOUT SO IF WE MAKE OUR ENVIRONMENT BETTER THAN WHAT IT IS COMMUNITY SERVICE WILL BE A TREMENDOUS JOB FOR EVERYBODY TO PARTICIPATE IN.

MY FEELINGS TOWARD COMMUNITY SERVICE IS ACHIEVEABLE BECAUSE IT SHOWS A WAY TO BETTER LIFE BY DOING THINGS AND BEING HELPFUL. IT SHOWS THAT REWARDS DO NOT ALWAYS HAVE TO BE GIVEN OUT IF YOU TAKE IT UPON YOURSELF TO KEEP A STABLE ENVIRONMENT.

I WOULD LIKE TO GO AND FEED ALL OF THE HOMELESS PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE NO PLACE TO STAY A MEAL IN THE MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT BECAUSE I JUST HATE THE FACT WHEN I SEE THEM THEY ARE ALWAYS BEGGING FOR MONEY, THAT HURTS ME TO MY HEART TO SEE THEM HUNGRY LIKE THAT, SO IF A TRUCK CAN BRING FOOD TO OUR CITY TO HELP FEED THE HOMELESS I WOULD LOVE HELPING ISSUEING IT OUT TO THEM BECAUSE I CANT SEE NO ONE HUNGRY LIKE TH

Community Service

What does community service mean to me?

As I went through high school I was involved in a lot of community service groups. I was really involved in a group called Rethink. It was a group of middle school kids who I was an intern for. The kids would tell their stories of how they went to other school after hurricane Katrina and how they compared to the New Orleans schools. This group was made so that we can take the ideas of improving the schools in New Orleans and put them in action! When I was interning the group we went to various schools in New Orleans and surveyed them on different subjects. These subjects included: food, the environment, whether or not if they were handicap accessible and other things. We then made plans to better the schools. We took it upon ourselves to organize a press conference that would air on all the news stations. We let the city know how the kids want better school and better learning experiences.

After the press conference we had a lot of feedback from various organizations. We received grants to promote our group. We received interview invitations from newspapers, magazines, and radio stations. Being involved in this group showed me how rewarding community service can be. Since then I try to give back to the community as best as I can. As I attend Xavier I will try to attend the community service days. Giving back to the community makes me feel better about myself and about my city. New Orleans needs a lot of volunteers, especially now. So I encourage everyone to try and give back!

Community Service!

I feel that community service is something everyone should do in order to give back to others in their community. This is what it means to me because so many good things have happened to me and my community has been there to support me through all of my endevaors and the only way I can repay them is by giving back what I can. There is so many ways that I can participate in giving back to my community like building a garden, picking up trash, visiting people, and even feeding the homeless. Although these are just a few ways to participate in community. I have done a number of activites for community service. When I was in high school I had to have a certain number of hours by the end of the year. The way i would get my hours was working at a nursery, that I attended when I was younger. I also worked at Children’s Hospital helping set up events and parties for the children. Some of my other things that I have done was f

Jasmine Grant:Comm. Service

What does community service mean to me? It means helping the community that I am living in a better place. Helping out the people in need. It means doing what you can to keep our community safe, and to keep our enviornment safe. I have been involved in many community service projects. In high school I was the president of Beta Club and we helped pick up trash aroung our community and our school campus. We gave canned good to people in need. In the club BSA we raised money every year for sickle cell. In national honor society we helped work different events around the city such as carivals and revels. My feelings about being involved in community service are strong. I think that people should get involved in the community that they live in. It is their community why wouldn’t you want to make it better?I think it is a good feeling knowing that you have made an inpact or difference in the community that I live in, it makes me pround to know that my community is getting better.I feel that anything involving to help the community that I live in to get better would interest me. I like helping in any way that i can to make my world a better place and to help people in need. If it were me I would want the same thing in my time of need. There is no particular community I would target. I do no know enough about New Orleans to know which community need the most hel. In my eyes all of New Orleans can use work because of the previous damage done by Katrina.

Community Services.

Community service to me means to help the people around you, lending a helping hand. I have participated in community services throughout my life. A few years ago I use to go to a temple on Manhattan, gretna. It’s called the Cao Dai Temple. I had helped them raised money to fund for building their temple by participating in their holding events. We would hold big gathering events with other Buddhist temples from around the country, we would sing and serve food for donations. When I was younger I use to tutor lower grades level to bring up their grades in my elementary school. During highschool, I was in a few clubs such as asian club and key club which done community work also. Being involved in community service is an importance to me, it build characteristics. It makes you into a better person and makes you feel good about yourself, like an accomplishment. Service that interest me is government community service, like rebuilding homes (though I never got to do it). There’s not a particular community that I want to target because I feel all community needs a little help in some way. Thought doing work with no pay doesn’t really benefit you in anyway it benefits your list of good deeds. Everybody needs some kind of help sometimes right? Giving back to the community is a great thing to do, because without the communities around you, you wouldn’t be where you at. I hope being at Xavier would gives me opening opportunity to do some kind of community work because I know that’s something Xavier University like to do.

With <3,

Phuong:]

COMMUNITY SERVICE!!!

What community service means to me is helping other people and helping the community, community service could be volunteering at a hospital or an old peoples home. You could also volunteer at a day care or babysite. There are many things you could do to help out in the community you clould voluteer by picking up garbage in a park or help the poor by having can drives there are many oppertunitys for people to help out.In the begining of high school they told use that we need 40 hours of community service to graduate i thought that was a waste of time but when i started to volunteer i really enjoyed it and from there  I have been involved in communtiy service I have voluteered in a daycare I used to watch little children every day for about 2 hours. I’v also helped out teachers after class by cleaning up the classroom. I volunteered at my sisters elemenary school i also volunteered for a water clean up at my old high school where you go on saturday to a pounds all over florida and help clean the garbage. I think its great to help out in the community it makes you feel like your doing somthing useful and there are many people that are happy that your helping out in the communtiy it teaches you to be responsible. I think a certain community I would target would be New Orleans because there are many opportunies to help out especailly after huricanes there is lost to do.  After Katrina there was lost of thing to do people need lost of help and if the community didnt help out then New Orleans wouldnt have gotten back on there feet. Thats why communtiy service is important.

Community Service

When I think of community service I think of giving back something I old to my community. Community service means giving back to some sort of organization or community at no charge. I have particapted in serveral community activities. I have been active with my church such as bringing food to the needy sometimes. I have helped out at around serveral neighborhoods with my old school with just picking up trash and different waste off the ground. Personally I love to be involved in comunity service. I enjoy helping out around the community to help spice things up and make it look a little better. It’s an incredible feeling to know that you’ve done a great deed helping out around your neighborhood without looking for something in return. I know I can’t speak for everone but I love helping out with looking for something in return. It’s called doing it out of heart and because you want to not because you know your going to get something put of it. If or should I say when i began to reach the top of my goals, I plan on starting my own community service project. I want to help out with homeless people. I am going to open up a shelter for them to stay from time to time with food for them to eat morning, noon, and night. I also want to travel around the city to help out with the one’s who don’t stay in my shelter. So, I must say my service that I am going to target is helping out with the poor and homeless. I am going to help get more off the streets and from under the bridges.

community service from mychelle’s view

Community service is self-explanatory. It means service done in and for the community. I love community service, in fact, at my church, I was a part of the Jr. Missionaries and all they did was minister to people through community service. We have had clothes drives for all ages and genders. We made toiletry baskets for the battered women shelters. We served food at a place called Chosen 300 ministries. Through our partnership with them, we help and minister to 300 ministries. We also joined the Foreign Mission Baptist convention founded by Lott Carey. During Lott Carey’s mission convention we travel along the east coast and stay for a week with many other churches doing all that we can for those communities.  Just recently, we gleaned greens and corn in North Carolina. Then we served food at a nearby shelter. We also hosted a service at a nearby church. Lastly, we visited the state Prison where we met some prisoners and heard their stories and how because of their incarceration they have a stronger relationship with God.

I also did community service with the little league team in my community. I was once their age and wanted to be a cheerleader (which I am) and I wanted to give back. So four times a week I would go to the park and teach the aspiring cheerleaders new cheers and I mentored them on how to be a great cheerleader. My position, I took seriously because I am aware of the trouble that they could get into if they were left without anything to do. I also served as a big sister to them. I was a listening ear when necessary and a watchful eye and critic if necessary.  Along with that I was on the Pep squad at my high school and we did various community service activities. For example, we all joined Big Brother Big Sisters, which is a mentoring program for underclassmen. We also tutored underclassmen as well and middle school aged students. We also performed to raise money for various community organizations.

I enjoy community service and I try to do many different things. I did participate in the August 23 Community Plunge. I went to Second Harvest food bank, sorted, and packaged food. I plan to do many more activities for the community maybe something in the lower ninth ward.

 

Community service

 

            Community service is basically aiding to nature, the unfortunate, and anyone who needs assistance. When you do a service for a community you are giving back to the place and/or people who’ve contributed to your community.

            I am proud to say that I have been very active in my community in the past three years. I have marched in homecoming parades for community churches, played games of bingo at senior centers, and even helped plant trees at parks. My personal greatest accomplishment in my community is a program I created, Christmas Extravaganza. In my senior year in high school I thought about when I visited a Senior Center and saw that they hardly had any visitors. This got me thinking about the upcoming Christmas Holiday, I starting brain storming ideas that I could do to brighten up the lives of our well-deserving elders. The final product of my program included a gag auction, ornament decorating, gifts, bingo, food, Christmas skits, and live entertainment. I plan to make my annual show bigger and better each year.

            When I do something for my community I feel a sense of accomplishment and pride. Nothing is more pleasing than seeing joyous faces and knowing that I made them look that way. When I do community service projects I try to involve youth volunteers so they will be influenced to contribute their services and get that feeling I get.

            There is no particular community I would like to target. I am willing to aid and assist anyone who needs my services.

 

Week 3: Community Service

What does community serive mean to me? I think community service mean to help the people around your area or where you live or what group you are in. At West Jefferson High School I was in Key Club. Key Club is all about SERVICE! We held bingo nights at the nursing home across the street from us weekly, and also donated our gifts to them for Christmas. We garden our school front and back. We also helped the community by cleaning out public parks. To keep our finance up so that we can go on trips and raise money to start more projects we held a tailgating party for our Homecoming game. We also held many events  during lunch and after school. To raise more money we also held many car washes and bake sales.

At first I was not interested in community service because I always thought I had better things to do. Which was nothing but to sit around and relax, but once you finish one project you get an awesome feeling. Everyone wants to be important or be recognize to someone. If you help the community you are helping more than just one person. Sometimes I feel like a super hero after doing community service because your helping many.

They types of service that interest me is anything that has to do to raise money. Money is important to our society. After raising money you can donate it to the poor or people in need and you have done a good deed by working hard. Or you can raise money to go on trips. I do not think there is a particular community I want to target because i want to do all!

– Mike Tran

Community Service

My definition of community service is giving back to your people. Community service could be something as simple as helping a neighbor take out trash, having a school supply fundraiser, or just picking up trash to make the area look nice. I have never participated in community service but I’ve always wanted to. I think if a child may happen to see me or anyone else cleaning up the community, it would encourage them to do the same. A person would be setting an example for the youth as well as making the environment a safe and clean place to enjoy. I feel we don’t have enough people who participate in community service. Many conversations people have are about how bad their neighborhood is or how bad it looks. Don’t sit around wishing you could do something. Get together with people who feel the same way you do and make it happen. I’m interested in community service like Habitat for Humanity. I’ve seen some of their work and how they make people feel when their homes are done. I want to be a part of that. After the hurricane many families lost their homes. I want to give them that feeling to be in a permanent home again.  It’s not the only community service that I would do but it’s my biggest interest to participate in activities like Habitat for Humanity. I don’t feel that there is any specific community that I would like to target because I feel that every community needs a little work.

Community Service

To me community service means to deed done by a person or group of people in oder to help or better their community. I have participated in many community service projects…from simply painting over graffiti to help building houses with Habitat for Humanity. My favorite community service was when my AP English Literature class volunteered with the Habitat for Humanity. We worked every weekend in the month of March working on this elderly lady’s house that had just burned down in a fire. It was amazing to see the tears of joy rushing down her face as we gave her the keys to her new home and she was able to move back home. I feel that everyone in some point of there life should become involved with some type of community service. Not only is it nice to help others but the feeling you get when you see how much of a difference you have made is undefinable. people often lose sight of the fact that everyone, even themselves, will inevitably need help sometime in their life and through community service we as a society can make the biggest difference someone’s life. If anyone can say that they see one area of community service that i see needs more interest than the other they would be misinterpreting the whole ideal of community service. In order to service the community as it should be we must divide our attention to community serve evenly into every single division. We must spend just as much time cleaning up our parks as we do rebuilding others’ homes.

community service

To me community service is an act that is performed to meet a need, whether it is for an entire community or just for one person. There is always someone or a group of people with a need anywhere you turn. We just have to be willing to lend a hand.

As for me, I have not had too much experience doing service-work. I did work with the “Volunteens'” through “Volunteer Baton Rouge” a couple of times. I worked at a local blood bank with them. I was also a member of the “Junior Civic Association” in my neighborhood. We held numerous activities including just making the neighborhood look better by maintaining the flower beds at the entrances. I also have been on a couple of mission trips with my church where we set up “Vacation Bible School” to reach out to the surrounding communities. 

As far as being involved in community service, I really would not mind. Even if it is not something I particularly enjoy, I would get over it and still make the best of it. As long as someone’s day turns a little brighter, it is worth it. There really is not a certain type of work nor a certain location that I prefer over another. Something to do with children would probably be pretty fun. On the other hand, working with the elderly could be just as fun. I really enjoy learning about different folks in different situations, so maybe that will happen through community service.

It Is Better to Give Than to Receive

Community service gives me a chance to give back to my community.  Instead of complaining of what I need to see happen, I can actually change hopes to reality.  The best thing about that is being included in the process.  There is no better satisfaction than knowing I am apart of the movement or change. 

 

I have participated in community service several times.  I have done things such as working with children in a day care, on a construction site, in the church, in the hospital (obtaining hours for my CNA qualification), and on projects around the school.  I enjoyed working in the hospital and day care the most because my career will be a pediatrician.  In both settings, it is hard to predict what the day will bring.  No matter how much experience you may have in the field, everyday is unpredictable and full of new surprises.  However, I did enjoy most of it and I definitely learned to be quick in my thinking. 

 

The perfect way to improve my surroundings was to get involved.  Everyone benefits from the effects of community service.  Personally, I obtained a better appreciation for the individuals who do those things on the daily basis.  The joy is visible on the faces of the helped persons and a feeling of accomplishment takes over me.

 

Next, I would like to try painting a building, gardening, recycling, or just about anything that I have not tried yet.  I realize that is the only way I will know what I do or do not like.  In the mean time, I will keep an open mind and try anything offered to me…

Community Service

Community service to me is making your environment better.  It is filling the needs of the people and places that surround your everyday life.  I used to volunteer at Charleston-Methodist Hospital in Dallas, Texas.  I helped the nurses assist the patients.  To elaborate, I handed out newspapers to the patients, gave them water, and made sure they had clean water.  Also I filed papers for the head nurse, made sure the carts were full withsupplies, put away supplies, cleaned the kitchen, made sure the boards were in order, and wiped down the counters and the binders.  I also used to volunteer at the Salvation Army.  I put all the food away in their proper categories and filled boxes with the food.  I used to also volunteer at the Westbank Regional Library in Harvey, Louisiana.  I made sure the books were in order on the shelves.  I think being involved in community service makes you a better person.  It is a great reality check.  It shows you a bigger picture of the world.  I personally like services that have to do with something medical, but I also like working at the Salvation Army because at the end of the day I feel like I accomplished something.  I feel like I am reall helping someone.  I would like to target poorer communities because I think they need the help the most.  The 9th ward which is where I was born is one of those communities.  I think that it would help tremendously if people would volunteer there.

Community Service!

I feel that community service is something everyone should do in order to give back to others in their community. This is what it means to me because so many good things have happened to me and my community has been there to support me through all of my endevaors and the only way I can repay them is by giving back what I can. There is so many ways that I can participate in giving back to my community like building a garden, picking up trash, visiting people, and even feeding the homeless. Although these are just a few ways to participate in a community, you can do whatever you feel is helpful. I have done a number of activities for community service. When I was in high school I had to have a certain number of hours by the end of the year. The way i would get my hours was working at a nursery, that I attended when I was younger. I also worked at Children’s Hospital helping set up events and parties for the children. Some other things that I have done was fix some land so that a garden could be built. I really take giving back to my community serious.

Everyone has a reason to give back to others because without the help of others you would have not made it as far as you did. For this reason I feel community service should never be an issue because little things make a big difference. I am intrested in helping younger children with school. Children are not taking school serious as they should anymore and this is becoming a big problem with education. I would like to give back by mentoring at public schools in Orleans Parish school system. My mom is a former school teacher and she really inspired me to help children because they can’t do it all by themselves. Helping one child may make a difference in there life and may even change the world eventually.

The Community and Me!!

Community service is an opportunity to show appreciation and respect to others, especially those that have given you so much support and guidance through the years.  (It’s also a way to pay your debt to society, but that one’s not up for discussion.)  Nevertheless, community service is a great way to enhance character and build long-lasting relationships.  I believe that everyone (including myself) should at least try to find a project that they would like to participate in at least once a month.

            I have participated in several community service projects over the past several years.  I searched around for some activities during my freshman year of high school so that I might enhance my college applications.  However, I enjoyed those few experiences and decided to join a service club (The Exchangettes) during my junior and senior years so that I could really get out and get involved and even try to meet a few people and make some new connections.  I also feel that I appreciated my experiences more so when I participated by choice, rather than doing them for an incentive.

            I love doing volunteer service with children; they seem to have the most enthusiasm and appreciation.  In addition, I truly took interest in the community plunge project (I chose painting the wall at Warren Easton High School).  I would really like to get involved in more community service that entails the amelioration of neighborhood houses and schools.  I would really enjoy assisting those who were victims of severe weather and flooding.

Community Service

Helping someone who can not necessarily help themseleves. That is what community service means to me. I believe that you can change the world with action. For if we all act in a manner of helping one another we can accomplish great things.  My first community service experience involved serving food at a homeles shelter. Abraham’s Tent provided vital services to the homeless communities which included clothes, food, and shelter.  It set the basis for my future community service experience. My next opportunitiy to volunteer was spending a few hours every tuesday and thursday at area hospitals and nursing homes. This was apart of my clinical hours required for completion of a nursing assistant training program.  The program not only provided me with clincal experience, it also provided emotional to. I learned to deal with many different types of people and illnesses. My most recent experience involved going to the lower ninth world. I macheted grass and helped build a pond.  Community service has helped shape a broad part of my life. I love participating in various activties. i would love to work more in the lower ninth ward community. Visting there recently I had the opportunity to see how much work is to be done there. The community is a forgotten part of the New Orleans rebuilding. There are houses there that are still marked with remenants of katrina, though it was three years ago. Houses are still marked with X’s symbolizing the search of thousands of homes. Signs still mark the thoughts of residents struggling to rebuild. Memories still linger of a past though riddled with crime; still consited of families and life. I would love to go back there and help rebuild. As I said previously community service is about action. Macheting grass, building houses, and landscaping are just some of the tasks that could be done.  In the case of the grass you could help save a landowner a $300 fine, for grass they are not even there to cut because their home is not there. Little actions make big differences and community service is one little action that can make a big difference.

CoMmUnItY SeRvIcE!!

Community service means to me services volunteered by individuals or an organization to benefit a community. There are many different types of things you can do to participate in community service. I have worked at the Salvation Army ,with my church, preparing food for the homeless. I enjoyed doing that because I liked to see the smile on their faces when they got the hot meal that we prepared for them. I have tutored Hispanic children to teach them how to speak English. When I did cheerleading my junior year I bagged groceries at the store and we also had car washes. I was also in Girl Scouts when I was younger and we did a lot of community service. I feel participating in community service activities is a great thing to do whenever you have time. It feels good to be able to help someone less fortunate than you and to know that you made a difference in that person’s life. Services that would interest me are helping children and visiting elderly people that are in nursing homes to do something nice for them. I would also like to help the homeless and people less fortunate than me. A community I would like to target is the areas that were affected the most during Hurricane Katrina. I would like to help the victims rebuild their houses so they can have the lifestyle they had before the storm.

Community Service

To me, community service means the obligation and responsibility of an individual to give back to their community. Community service has been a way of life for me ever since I was younger. My mother and father have always instilled in me that much is given unto me so much is required of me. While others may consider community service to be something to list on their resumes, I enjoy the fact that I am adding joy to someone else’s life by helping them in some way or another. I am continuously donating my time to my community through my music. I have played violin, cello, viola, and bass at numerous events and community service activities. Sharing my knowledge of music with children brings me great pleasure, which why I have been a volunteer music teacher for the New Orleans String Project for the past four years. I have also played music for the sick and the elderly in nursing homes and hospitals, as well as for family members. Dancing, being my second passion to music, is also another way I have contributed to my community. I have performed in numerous community outreach recitals along with performances for other dance companies besides the ones I was a member off. Those moments were valuable because my fellow dancers and I played role models to the young dancers and showed them what they could become if they worked hard at what they did. This past May I was to play my cello in the orchestra and dance in the same performance.

Community service is so important because it is one way to help your city and community unite and grow and develop as a whole. When people congregate and share their time, service, and knowledge many lives can be fulfilled. One act of kindness can go a long way. What may seem so petty to one person may, no doubt, mean the world to the next person. Satisfaction from assisting others in one way or another is something I truly love because seeing someone smile at you for doing something that seems so natural to you is quite gratifying. I usually volunteer my service in one art form or another, whether it is music, dance, visual art, or poetry. I really like to give back to children, and more so to underprivileged children who never received the opportunity to experience the arts. However, I have and still do other types of community service, such as volunteering with Habitat for Humanities.

Community Service

To me, community service means serving the community. Simple enough. It means helping and where otherwise, work would go undone. It means wanting to help for the sake of helping, wanting nothing in return. Community service is your way of knowing you made a big difference in at least on persons life. You know that you are touching other peoples’ lives in a positive way. You are instilling hope where otherwise, it can only be imagined.

I’ve participated in a wide range of community service activities and, although some were out of my element, I enjoyed them all. I was a motivational speaker and a tutor for a youth summer program, I answered phones for a telethon, participated in and helped run a bowlathon to raise money, served meals for Thanksgiving, caroled for Christmas, decorated community centers for different holidays and seasons, sang for different functions as well as in my church choir, headed the youth program in my church when needed, and helped with a walkathon. I think that covers it.

I either volunteered or was asked to help but I was never forced. Community service is something that you should WANT to do. Any and everyone who can, should. A lot of people don’t volunteer because they aren’t getting paid for it but, it means so much more. It isn’t always about immediate results such as money in you pocket. Sometimes you have to think about the long-term, the improvement of the community.

Me, I don’t mind helping. I’m not going to exaggerate and say that I do community service 24/7, 365 or say that I’d want to do it all the time. That would be unrealistic because we all know that there are other obligations. I will say that this: I am willing and able. I particularly like serving meals, working with food, or other such activities but I don’t mind doing other things. I haven’t been disappointed yet. I like to help anyway I can.

Week 3 : Community Service

               Community Service  to me is helping people that’s in depressed need of help. I have paticpated in many community services in my lifetime.  One of the community services I did where feed the hungry in Atlanta, Ga. We went to downtown Atlanta at night. I feed some homeless people a hot meal that day. I feel like I made a difference in them people lives by feeding them a hot meal. I also did a community service in New Orleans , La named Helping Hands. We went to City Park and started to landscape, help build a green house for our beautiful park. My feelings about all the community services I been in I feel like I can help or do anything that was in need at that time. I love to help people, I love to make people smile. I want the world to be helpful also about people in need more.  The types of community services that interested me are feeding the hungry, help fix houses, build different buildings. Make sure people that need help is help by someone.  I feel that helping people is a God giving talent. I feel that god has to be in the people hearts that want to help others in need. My particular community service I would do is feed the homeless and help build a homeless shelter.  The project would be called Help Others in Need. I would produce hot meals for people that are hungry around that area and more.  I would target the most needed place that have homeless people in need of shelter and food.

 

Sincerely, Sarah Wilson

Community Service

     Hello to everyone once again.  Community service means to me the responsibility we all share to give back to the community.  This can be by volunteering at a group home, helping to rebuild houses, tutoring young children and/or becoming a big sister or big brother for someone.  There are many ohers that fall under the category of community service, and I believe that if it helps others in an ethical way with out an immediate gain it is community service.

      I feel this way about community service because I have participated in community service over the years.  My community service includes volunteering at: a local hospital, a local clinic, school functions, watching young children, and a local dance studio.  In all these avenues, I did not receive any pay, but I did receive satisfaction from helping others.  What was especially motivating for me to do volunteer work was the requirement of having so many hours to graduate.  Also, to expand on my feelings about community service, I think community service is great and everyone should give back to their community because everyone has received some type of blessing in their life.

     Some types of community service that would interest me are working with young children and participating in any type of medical volunteer work.  One of my main career choices is to be a pediatrician, and I want to get as much experience as possible to see if the career choice is right for me.  In addition, because I want to be in the medical field, my target is to reach all people of all races in any way I can.

COMM. SERVICE

What does community service mean to me?  Let’s see: hard labor, boring, unpaid, working for no reason, no fun and last but not least its unpaid labor. The community service that I participated in was noting like that at all though, it was exciting, fun, a life experience I actually gained and learned some things from it. I helped rebuild and paint houses’ in the 9th ward of Louisiana, when I first heard that we were required to have completed 150hrs of community service before graduation I was mad I felt why should we have to do community service, why should we have to help out people we don’t know just to be able to get a degree and graduate. But working to help rebuild the houses’ in the 9th ward changed my prospective on the whole community service thing people who are lest fortunate and aren’t able to do for themselves they need each others help, if you think about it if you were in their shoes you would want the same kind of help from others. I also found out that community service  is not just hard labor or some thing you do with no benefit, you gain some thing out of it, you gain a sense of happiness that once in your life you helped someone you did something with out thinking about yourself or that you needed anything in return.  When the community service fair came to XULA I was excited to sign up, community service isn’t just working because you have to but that you want to, also there are a wide range of chooses to fit the kind of person you are. Me I signed up to be a teacher assistant.

 

Courtney McClain

Community Service

Community Service to me is giving back to the community.  It refers to service that a person performs for the the benefit of his or her local community.  Some people may view community service as a hastle but others may view it as a “good thing to do.”  Giving back to the community should be something people should volunteer to do willingly.  Although I did not do any service in High School, I really missed out on giving back to my community.  It seem like I’m lazy or selfish, but I had a job and I had to keep up with my school work.  But in my younger days I was in the Girl Scouts.  I can’t really tell you what we did to serve the community, but I do remember in Middle School that I volunteered in a program called, “World of Works Academy.”  And at that program I was placed at Franklin Baptist Church where I answered phones and filed papers. I though I was really doing something working in the work force.  I also enjoyed myself because I was going things that the grown folk do.  The type of service that would interest me would be to help the children and the elderly and to be apart of Habitat of Humanity.  I would like to be apart of Habitat for Humanity because I would like to help the citizens rebuild their homes because of storms or Hurricanes this pass season.  I would really target the lower 9th ward because thats was where I once resided and I would like for that community to be rebuilt with the help and service of the community.

Community Service- Help Others Out!!!

Community service is a great way for you to give back and help others. In the eyes of those in need you are viewed as great. If you enjoy helping, community service shouldn’t be imposed, because you tin not to enjoy doing the work. This situation has not been a problem for me, but I know that you won’t gain anything from something being forced. Helping in the community means to me that you lend a hand to people less fortunate.  It is also when a group of people decides to work together on a project. You also show people that you care and will have a positive affect on their lives.  In my short years, I have participated in community service and volunteer work. Just recently I’ve been a “Make It Right” volunteer and volunteered at a local business as a clerical assistant. During the recent primary’s I volunteer as a campaigner. I’ve done various jobs with guidance to show others that I care too. When I contribute to help others it makes me feel happy, a leader, and motivated to get involved more often. It makes me think about how so many people need help and can’t do it by themselves. Some types of service that interest me would be home remodeling, working with children, clerical assistant, or maybe landscaping. There are many communities in this world that need help on several items. I know that many will need help after the recent disasters of Katrina, Gustavo, and Ike. Another one would be helping the homeless or working with senior citizens whom I think are extremely humble and caring in my eyes. I love to see smiles on their faces when I do the smallest of things. Community service makes me think back even when I go to the store and the elderly people can’t reach something on the top or bottom shelf; I jump at the chance to help. Community service can be found in the simplest things you do in your everyday life to help someone else. I will always remember that a community fights for what is right!!! Thanks for reading!

Community Service

Community Service to me is what it is, community, the people around us, friends, family, or neighbors and service doing things, helping others, etc. To me, its simple really, I mean Community Service is working together with our city, our parish, our neighborhood, or our school to make the place we live in better in general.

At Ben Franklin, I joined Key Club and PAT, two major community service groups that many people know. Key Club, we helped out with raising food for the poor, we helped schools decorate Christmas trees in City Park, car washes in neighborhoods, but one that stood out was walking for the hungry where we spend an afternoon walking to raise money for needy children in Africa. PAT on the other hand was, peer assistance team, that helped fellow Franklin students by tutoring them in the class they’re weak in, and also students from elementary schools such as Alice Harte for some of us that lived in the West bank[Algiers].

For me, every community service activity is great, as long as we’re able to reach out to the people and help them even by the smallest amount, its still something that makes them feel better and shows them that there are people out in the world that care. If you help one person, sometimes that person will help another person, and there is a chain that keeps going. The best for me, although I like community service in general, was when I was helping little kids learn how to read, write, and study in school. They are so excited and they’re very energetic seeing you every week and it warms your heart. I know it sounds kind of corny, but its really nice to know you changed a kid’s life.

The next community I would pick would be hurricane victims that have lost their homes. I briefly participated in Habitat for Humanity helping rebuild houses after Katrina, but I felt that we should be helping those that have lost their homes to natural disasters, so they can continue on with their life, but most importantly bring this city of ours back to its feet. Its true that New Orleans is back, but we should help out as much as we can to make it even better than it was before.

-Hai Tran

Community Service

To me community service is an act that humbles a person through giving back to those in need. Last year I had the opportunity to help a church that had close its doors due to hurricane Katrina. In this project my classmates and I helped to remove all valuable objects from the building so that the people of the church could relocate the items to their new location. They needed the help because not all the members of the church returned after the hurricane and it was hard for the remaining members to move their belongings without aid. To me, any service project that I complete gives me a feeling of reward because some of the acts we do for community service are so simple but they just need to be done. My favorite service projects are ones that help groups or organizations compensate for being short handed. Because when groups just call for people to help out when it’s not really needed then I for one feel exploited. Then I also get angry because I feel that I wasted my time doing someone’s busy work when I could have been helping someone that actually needed the help. All in all the community that i believe needs the most help is New Orleans East and the lower 9th ward as they sustained the most damage during Katrina and to date those areas are still in shambles. Overall I love community service, i love helping people in need and I love sharing that experience with friends.

Community Service

Community service is exactly what its name says, serving the community. Our communities each have pockets, whether great or small, which need the aid of citizens to better their standing. There are no utopia-like communities in our world. Therefore, it takes concern and service to make each society as perfect as possible. Nature is the largest part of our world. Keeping nature as pure and clean as possible does nothing short of helping us as humans on this earth. Commuity service targeting the cleanliness of our surroundings is one of the most important aspects of societal benefit. Another important part of improving our world focuses on the underpriviliged and impoverished. These are the citizens that need the assisstance of those who are better off than they are. When humans help each other to make it through the hardships and trials life presents, society slowly evolves into a more just and righteous society. Honest volunteering mirrors the comradery and partnership that humanity should be about. This is the area where I mostly participate when it comes to community service. I love to meet different people, hear their stories, and find ways in which i can improve their lives. Not only am I helping that person and his or her situation, I believe the good deeds will return to me or someone close to me, in some form, shape, or fashion. I volunteered at the Veterans Hospital in Memphis, TN for about three years. This was an experience that I am fortunate to have recieved. This hospital’s patience were those who fought for our country and now need the assistance of the citizens, the ones reaping the benefits of their sacrifices. I was something like an unofficial nurse. I ran errands for the doctors and patients and helped take care of the patients whenever they needed anything. One of the best parts of this experience was hearing the stories and growing close to the patients I saw everyday. They opened up to me and taught me to appreciate life and its joys, as well as hurts, because in the end, there is nothing more precious than life itself. I like to be in the hospital. So any community service that I would recommend would most likely be in a direct hospital setting. However, I also appreciate working with little kids, maybe at a community center or foster home. These two parts put together, purifying our natural surroundings and coming together as human beings, fulfill the demands of community service and will result in a better world as a whole.  All places need a little help here and there. I probably would prefer starting in Africa because the country is in desperate need of caring assistance and help from countries with supplies and technology that can aleviate and improve their conditions. However, small steps turn into long walks and long walks turn into marathons. This means wherever I place my service, it will help the community in some way and eventually be recognized as a genesis to a big difference.

Community Service

Community service to me means helping and reaching out to others.  It is something that gives you a warm feeling inside, when you have the chance to say “I had a hand in making that park look better,” or “I had a hand in making that child feel better about his or herself.”  When I do community service it feels great, I’m not only helping better myself, but I’m helping others that might need that get up and go about themselves.  This past year I did a community service at a retirement home, where one of the residents was one of my uncles.  It was exciting, though, I helped a lady who was over activities while I was there.  I helped bring down the elders that weren’t able to walk to the cafeteria, where I helped them enjoy various fun activities.  They played bingo, card games, and afterwards we fed them a snack.  They enjoyed theirselves, and I was excited that they were happy.  Another community service was “Feed the Future.”  I did this commuinity service for two years, because I really enjoyed this one.  Each year around December or so, my school corporation would have a celebration for kids in elementary and middle school.  They would sit and here christmas carols and win prizes.  We were dressed like elves and our job was to keep the kids entertained, which is what I love to do.  We gave the “wanted” posters that had the Grinche’s picture on it, and we warned them that when he came they had to let us (Santa’s Little Helpers) know. It was a blast I love making kids happy, and keeping them entertained, we even got them out there seats and danced with them it was a blast.  I also doa commuinity service for my church, every first, third, and fifth sunday.  I was a candstriper.  I served all the members of the church, the choir included, even my pastor.  I supplied water, tissues, and fans, and if there was a young child that needed to use the restroom, I had to take them to the restroom and bring them back to thier seats so help their parents out.  So as you see, I have alot of great feelings from community ser vice, I have feelings of excitement, enjoyment, fufillment, and at the end of the day it adds to my character.  As you can see there are a mixture of community services I would get involved in.  I would get involved in any community sevice that invoved helping the elderly, helping kids, painting schools, or replinishing the appearance of parks or communities.  As I have toured New Orleans and seen various sites, if i could I would help rebuild the city’s appearance close to what it use to be.  I’m not saying this just becuase I go to Xavier because I feel for the city, besides the hurricanes it reminds me of my own city, which would be another city I would help.  New Orleans was once a beautiful city, and it still is, but there is a few spots that need mending and if I could make someone’s community look better than I would.  Like my city, abandoned buildings and debris everywhere, I would love to help make New Orleans, and Gary reatain their once beautiful and spectacular scenic city.

Community Service

Community service means so much to me. It makes me think that I am somehow useful to the community. I actually feel really great when I volunteer to do something valuable and helpful to help my community becomes better. I started doing community service when I was a freshman in high school. That was when I met Mrs. Cyndi, a director of a Vietnamese Organization. She has an office where the kids could come to get help with their homework and have fun, instead of wandering in the street. It is also a summer program for the kids to come to learn and have many fun activities. I started out with helping the first graders in the summer on the art activities, I tell you all, they are absolutely loveable and adorable. I couldn’t make myself stop smiling when they came up to me and tell me their stories over the weekend. I love kids; I don’t mind helping to gain their knowledge and have a great summer.
After that year the Director offered me a job to work with the program. I work there every summer as a staff, but I also did a lot of community service with the program. After Katrina, the program helped to fixed and cleans up the schools so the kids can come back to school with sanitary environment. The program and I wanted the best for the kids, so we did our best. My all time favorite community service was when all the staffs worked together to put up a show for the kids to enjoy. We have fashion show, dances, and skits. I was a princess in a hilarious skit, which the kids love me because I wore a yellow Princess Belle dress.
I am looking forward for the next summer so I can do more community service to help the kids. My goal is to help the kids who are in need. I always tell myself, when I become wealthy, the kids are the first one on my list that I’ll give assistance to.

community service.

Community service means a lot to me because it keeps me humbled and it’s a tangible realization of how I am sincerely blessed. So, I believe that community service is something that every individual should take part in. I’ve done community service for several years because I was a Girl Scout and every year around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays we would give back to the community in various ways. Even this year my troop decided to serve food at Oznam Inn for the last time. It’s experiences like, serving food to the homeless and volunteering at a nursing home, that allows me to have a greater appreciation for everything that I have. To me, it’s a mini life lesson, that can straighten out where your priorities lie.

With that said, I guess it’s pretty oblivious that I am all for community service. It’s fulfilling to know that you did something rewarding and kind for another person who may be less fortunate or whatever the case. I particularly enjoy the type of service where I actually have the opportunity to meet people. So, building houses in the Ninth Ward, is definitely not the job for me. Instead, working at a soup kitchen would be ideal or even Second Harvesters Food Bank is nice because packaging it’s the food that will be sent out to shelters. I really like to help elderly or homeless communities. And I guess that streams from Girl Scouts because those are the types of community service we generally participated in. I think I like knowing that I’m really making a difference, so meeting the elderly or homeless and seeing at least a smile, makes me feel good.

If you’re thinking “Wow. She was really a Girl Scout.” Yes, I was. I became one the summer of my 7th grade year and my senior year in high school, I finished as a Senior Girl Scout. Kind of dorky, but that’s me. =]

Neisha’s Take on Community Service

When I was younger I participated in community service activities, yes. However, for a long time I didn’t see the real value in it. Usually some adult figure from either church or school would say that there was an event taking place. My friends and I would all agree to go, but for different reasons. We went because we saw it as another opportunity for us all to hang out together. It was a while before I realized how powerful community service can be. At my high school it wasn’t mandatory for us to do community service. We did have a policy that anyone with at least seventy hours of documented community service would get an extra cord to wear at graduation. That became my motivation to do community service. I started out doing little odds and ends like cleaning up and grading papers after school. Then I began participating in activities with organizations on campus, of which I was a member. I participated in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, Senior Citizen’s Luncheons, etc. I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but after I while I began to think less and less about the cord. I found that even after I met the requirement for the cord I still participated. When I volunteered I felt like I was making a difference. I felt like just by making a child smile or an elderly woman laugh I was making things better. That’s why I volunteer now, its why I’ll keep volunteering. It feels good to know that you’ve made a difference. Whether that difference is at your school, in your community, in your city it doesn’t matter. What matters, to me at least, is when I can see that my actions have amerliorated my community.