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Community Service Projects
I'm apart of an Interact club at school and we are required to do two community service projects per semester (I think that's how it goes). As seniors we are required to do more than the underclassmen. My friends and I (about 4 of us) want to volunteer at a retirement home or a hospital to help sick children or something along those lines. Who would we have to contact to do something like that? Would be allowed to volunteer at a place like that? We want to spend time with people and play games with them or listen to them talk, just be there and "hang out" with them. What if we were to do something such as cleaning a strip of the highway? How would we go about doing that? Would there be specific dates in which we could do it or could be do it on our own time? We have to have a "supervisor" type person sign off saying we actually performed community service so I guess there would be someone that we would have to contact... Any ideas on what we should do and who we should contact. The club advisor said there wasn't any set amount of hours as long as there are two community service projects. Thanks in advance!
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Solidadvice pretty much has it down so I won't repeat what he/she just said. Another thing you might want to think about though is a Charity Walk. My class is doing a Walk For Autism next Saturday. What you would do is search for charity walks in your city, go to the website, start a team and get as many people to join as possible. You can either walk to event or you can do volunteer type things like hang out water, watch children, whatever else they might want you to do.
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It doesn't matter where you reside in this case. When it comes to retirement homes or hospitals give them a call and ask for the name of their volunteer coordinator.
They'll have someone with that title or something similar who will be able to place you in a volunteer role and talk to your school's supervisor and help evaluate your performance later on.
When it comes to roads or highways you need or your supervisor at school needs to call the municipality the section of road is in or a state/ provincial representative (see the blue pages in the phone book) in charge of transportation or something along those lines.
More or less, look them up in the book and make contact. That's how you'll get picked to volunterr doing what you would like to do rather than something picked for you by another.
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