Community Service image from the Iola Chamber of Commerce Website, '09.
As soon as freshman year begins in high school, parents, teachers, and administrators tell all students to not only work hard in school, but to help out and volunteer around the community, as well.
We learn that colleges look not only at grades, GPAs, and student behavior; but Admissions Officers also pay attention to our community service logs.
Even though some states do not have a high school graduation requirement for community service or volunteer hours, the experiences will teach you so much and last a lifetime.
A student who does extremely well in school, but does no community service may have a harder time getting accepted into certain colleges than a student who got both good grades and participated in a variety of community service activities. Students are involved in some form of community service nonchalantly almost every day. Things such as helping others with homework, or helping out a younger sports team; and babysitting are all acceptable community service work.
By creating a Community Service Log, we can log in times and dates so that when colleges ask about our Community Service History we can just hand over our log along with our college resume.
Although some students tend to think that community service and volunteer work is complicated and confusing, it’s actually pretty easy once you get started. You just have to get involved and look for places to volunteer.
Not only will you have a great and fun time; but, you will learn new life lessons, leadership skills, and you will be one step closer to becoming a well-rounded and magnificent young adult.
With that, I'd like to personally invite all high school and middle school students to join me in a great Community Service Project!
Lifeline Foundation, Inc. is coordinating a 2009 Book Collection & Donation Drive between September 1 through October 30, 2009; and I'm working with the Activities Advisor at my high school to promote and run a Book Drive at my high school to help the 501 (c) (3) non-profit charitable organization collect 1,000 new or used children's storybooks and chapter books to donate to a needy school in The Republic of Panama.
The books will help Lifeline Foundation, Inc. establish the first Clifford & Ivy Greaves Library in a poor community in Panama. Right now, the students at the needy school in Panama are taught only in Spanish.
Our community service volunteer work on this project will help the kids at La Escuela Farallon become readers and writers of English so that they have a lot of opportunities after they graduate from high school and college like we do in the United States.
***Please e-mail me at info@mylifelinefoundation.org by September 15th if you would like to promote and run a Book Drive at your high school or middle school. We'd love to have you join us, and you'll receive Community Service Volunteer Hours to be added to your log!
(Lifeline Foundation, Inc. will provide all volunteers with a letter on their letterhead to confirm the number of community service hours completed.)
-Danielle-
"It's not where you came from, it's where you're going that counts." (Ella Fitzgerald)
Danielle M. Biggs
High School Student & Community Service Volunteer
E-mail: info@mylifelinefoundation.org
Weblog: http://lifelineextensions.blogspot.com/
Website: http://www.mylifelinefoundation.org/
Mailing Address for all tax-deductible donations:
301 N. Harrison Street
Suite 35
Princeton, NJ 08540
877.570.1237
"Children are the globe's most precious commodity." (Terence H. Biggs, Jr., 2009)
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