just give me some community service ideas plz.
thnx.
2007-03-04 14:44:04 · 8 answers · asked by Nikki 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
The best ideas are based on what you like. For example if you like reading and like little kids you could volunteer to help with a reading day or regular reading program at the library or even start one. If you like books but are shy about reading outloud see if the library needs someone to help straighten up shelves or do something else. If you like art you could volunteer to make posters to brighten up a nursing home or a shelter or a hospital. If you like pets you could volunteer to pet and walk and play with dogs or cats at an animal shelter. If you like office things and are a good speller you might volunteer to do filing at a church office or a community group. If you like more active things volunteer to help with a sports program for little kids or volunteer to help clean up at a food bank or senior center or to help put canned food on the shelves at a food bank or start a food drive at your church or school-that would mean getting a big box or 2 to put canned food into, making posters, getting someone to put announcements in the bulletin or on the PA system, and arranging to take the food to a ministry or other organization that gives food to people who don't have enough food to eat. www.secondharvest.org may give you some good ideas on this one. This might be a good project to get a few friends to help with and each of you do the parts you like best. If you like sports like cross country biking volunteer to hand out water along the race route or to give out the Tshirts at the end. Take part in a walk-a-thon like relay for life (do a search in Yahoo to learn more about that) or offer to make a web page for a new group that helps people in your area. Get a group of friends and their parents to help build a house with Habitat for Humanity www.habitat.org/cd/local You know what you enjoy and are good at. If you need more ideas contact your local United Way or community volunteer center and they can help you decide,
2007-03-04 17:40:12 · answer #1 · answered by A F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really depends on your interests. If you like working with kids who have special needs, contact your local Special Olympics office, which has a myriad of sports that can use volunteers. Since it's spring, I think there training for equestrian is coming, there's softball, track and field, softball, and a ton of others.
If you are interested in medicine, you can volunteer at a local hospital, where you can visit lonely patients or get set up with a doctor you can "shadow" (there's only so much you can do without certifications).
You can even offer help to the front office at your school, just ask if they need help and they will probably be able to put you to work doing something or other.
The first step you will have to take will be discovering you interests, and the time period in which you need hours (which are what I'm assuming you are looking for).
Hope this was helpful, if you tell me your interests I can help point you in the right direction. You can even talk to your school counselor.
2007-03-04 17:22:44 · answer #2 · answered by Road Apples 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what about with an animal organization. They always need help, but I would suggest one that is no kill. I would hate for the child to get attached to an animal that is put down. Or visiting the elderly in a nursing home. Lets face it, they don't get many visitors and sometimes they just want someone to talk to. There are groups that pick up trash on the sides of roads, etc. There are a lot of things that can be done.
2007-03-04 14:53:48 · answer #3 · answered by Dawnita 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, it depends on the issues that you are interested in:
http://www.handsonnetwork.org/vca/citizen-academy/
Age doesn't matter in order to truly make a difference in your community. Some of the volunteers as various projects are as young as five years old. I work with several teen leaders that run various volunteer and community projects. They tutor children, run day care centers, act as docents at the museum, work at the food bank, work at the animal shelters, clean up parks and beaches, and various other projects.
You can find various pre-screened projects through your local volunteer center:
http://www.handsonnetwork.org/our-network/
http://www.pointsoflight.org/centers/find_center.cfm
Good luck!
2007-03-04 17:52:07 · answer #4 · answered by Brent 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
food banks, nursing homes, summer camps, maybe they could do story telling at the local library for kids, clean up days in the community. Ask their school if they know of any programs. They might have one there.
2007-03-04 17:05:33 · answer #5 · answered by Tina D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Replanting Green Thumbs ( The community Gardens), Help to feed the homeless.... That's all I can think of because I use to do it.
2007-03-04 14:48:27 · answer #6 · answered by cnicegurl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Visit the elderly in a nursing home. It is sad but most of them have no family that comes to visit.
2007-03-04 14:52:10 · answer #7 · answered by chevywoman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reading to anyone is a good thing ask to help with the elderly or in a day care
2007-03-04 15:41:16 · answer #8 · answered by raindovewmn41 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋