What is your most favorite volunteer work experience you've ever had in your life?

Question

I once did volunteer work for the homeless, it was very sad to see all those people with such difficult life circumstances, but felt really good to help out by helping feed them some proper well balanced meals.
That was a long time ago when I volunteered but find myself thinking about volunteering for the adult home down the street. anyway, what's been ur favorite type of volunteer work--the most fulfilling that is? what was ur experience please? thank u

Answer 1

In our state, they calculate the # of jail cells they will need in the future by the # of 3rd graders who are not able to read. So I tutor reading. What a joy. The kids have just as many worries/pains as adults, but are frequently not able to identify them. We choose to work in a poorer school where a two parent family is seldom the norm. I provide a positive male adult figure them. What a kick.
Please do return to your volunteer work - whatever its nature.

Answer 2

When I was 19 I took a training to become a peer counselor for domestic violence victims. Although I never have been a victim I was curious about the dynamics of an abusive relationship. I learned alot from training but when I started volunteering with the hotline and then holding peer counseling classes I learned alot more from the clients then I ever thought possible. I learned to stop saying 'why does she stay' and start saying 'why does he do that'? I worked myself into a paying job as a victim advocate. I am now a stay at home Mom but I loved working there so much I have plans to one day go back into the same field.

Answer 3

Volunteering at the SPCA. I took care of all of the cats, every Sunday, for months. Then one day I arrived to find out that sixty of them had been euthanized to create more shelter space. I had been told that it was a no-kill shelter, and I stopped volunteering there because I (and the rest of the city's population) had been misled. It was a good experience while it lasted, but I don't agree with the taking of an animal's life, unless its quality of life has deteriorated to the point where death is the only humane option. That was not the case at the SPCA.

Now I volunteer with a law firm, which better suits my abilities and personality, and I feel good about my contribution there.

Answer 4

I volunteer most of my youth and well into my younger years. I cannot pick only one experience because they are all memorable to me. To see the smiling face of a child whom you just helped is the greatest gift in the world. This experience was most memorable to me because it made me realize how sad some of the world is. I was volunteering for a senior citizens abuse center. We got a call from a gentlemen who needed food, he said he had not eaten in a week because his son never came home. We went there with food as was our mission and I thought I had just about seen everything. This poor old man about 87 years old was living in the worse filth I have ever seen. There was not a can of food, a clean dish, a clean anything. His pill bottles were empty and needed refilling. We asked him who takes care of him and he replied; my son comes every month to take my cheques and feed me. Upon further investigation we asked him how much his cheque was, he replied 3000.00, I am a retired fireman. Picture this; a retired fireman with a pension of 3000.00 lliving in a one room apartment eating tv dinners with no cable, no nothing. He must have weighed soaking wet about 90 pounds. I was horrified at the sight of his house and the sight of him. I will leave those details to your imagination. Needless to say we got him out of there into a senior's residence -which he did not want to I might add, he wanted his son to take care of him-we had to do this by court order. Basically you get the picture, the son stole his Dad's money. He was left to die alone. It was the saddest thing I have ever seen first hand.

Answer 5

I occasionally volunteer at the nursing home. I really enjoy doing this because the people there appreciate the company and attention that they receive from people that they don't get to see everyday. This is truly an experience that I will never forget and I am so glad to have been given the opportunity to make someone else smile.

Answer 6

When I was youger, I would travel south to places like Kentucky and Tennesse with my youth group to help rebuild or fix houses in poverty striken areas. That was so satisfying. It was hard work, in high temperatures, but just becoming friends with these people (both the home owners and the other teens that would be helping you) was great. Especially the older home owners who would make lunch or serve lemonade because that's all they could do. They didn't have a lot, but they had more than enough love to give.

Also, I feel really good after donating blood.

Answer 7

USCG Aux. Patrol boat operations, S.A.R (search and rescue), When everyone else is heading "IN", we're heading "OUT", someones in trouble, fire up the engines and lets go ! I hate work because I HAVE TO DO IT, I don't have to do this, I don't get paid for it, I don't "HAVE" to go, funny thing about volunteer work, and the people that do it, THEY ALWAYS GO, and WE put more into it, there seems to be some sort of attraction to it, I guess that's what makes it great, "WE DON'T HAVE TO DO IT", The volunteer fireman does NOT HAVE TO get up in the middle of the freezing night to go on an ambulance call at 2:40 AM for a sick infant, BUT THEY GO.... ALWAYS ! what if we didn't have people like this ??????

Answer 8

I've worked at a nursing home for the elderly and its pretty quite sad when they pass away. Because being around them, is like their your family too. Well thats how I felt. Working with homless would sadden me also. Here in Hawaii we have young children with their family homeless. And for those we help by giving them food, or for the holidays we have this charity called "Lokahi" its where we pick a family that needs stuff and we buy it for them. Those are the best experience in my life. My children really like giving to the "Lokahi" families. Because my kids know that these children needs stuffs that my kids already have and now its their turn to give in return.

Answer 9

Civil Air Patrol (C.A.P.) Flying planes to help rescue other downed air craft. Completing S.A.R.'s Search and Rescue's it's all voluntary and hard as crap where people's lives depend on you finding them.

It's an Auxiliary Branch of the United States Air Force.

Answer 10

Meal on Wheels. Elderly people sign up for lunches and hot dinners. All meals are ready to eat. The meals are prepared according to specific dietary needs, and delivered. My 13 year old daughter and I do this together. The people are so appreciative, and they enjoy talking to us, and my daughter always ends up feeling good, too.