2903 Community Service Self-Reflection

2903 Community Service Self-Reflection

1.   I was volunteering in future center for special needs. I started my volunteering job on October 12, 2015. I was working on Mondays and Thursdays for 2 hours from 8 to 10 am each day. I was doing my duties and responsibilities as a volunteer. My duties were helping kids to learn new numbers and letters reading and writing. Taking care of them and training them to be organized as much ad possible, which were my responsibilities.

2.   The volunteering is thing that develops the person’s personality and changes his habits to better once. In my experience, the best part for me was meeting the children for the first time. I liked their reaction about me and how did they love me. But that toke time from them to get used to me. The best part also is when I come every morning and the kids welcoming me with hugs. Making them get used to me was the greatest challenge I faced. Especially as kids between 6 to 10 years old, which is a hard age to deal with.

3.   This experience contributed to support the community by giving without taking. When I was a volunteer I wasn’t waiting for anything to earn because the meaning of volunteering more than money, it’s giving. Actually, the volunteering targets are reducing the problems that facing the community. The volunteers will help the stuff to do more work than they did alone with less money. Volunteering develops the spirit of partnership. That will help the community to be more cooperative and together.

4.   All in all, this experience has changed many things in my thought and my personality. I was worried and scared about how I will deal with special needs children and I was wondering if they would accept me or not. They taught me how I help other people tirelessly and I became more helpful and pure heart person.

If the time returned back, I will be more on time everyday and I will change my thinking about special needs people because they are normal people. They like to meet new people and they are funny and active even more than us. I hope that I can volunteer again in future center. I loved this experience, the kids and stuff. I will really miss them. But also I prefer to volunteer somewhere else to get more different and multiple experiences.