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Helping Others
Hi! I'm currently volunteering at my local hospital and working on an event for National Eating Disorders Awareness (I'm the chairperson). My main goal in life is to help others, do you know any other ways that I can do so? Thanks!
P.S. I think your advice is awesome, that's why I wanted to ask you, Laura. =]
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Thanks for inboxing and thanks for the compliment. It kind of made my day.
First off: I think that what you're doing and your interest in wanting to help other is amazing and that there should be more people like you in this world.
That being said, there's a lot you can do to help others! You can start with something simple like making [and keeping up with] an advice column on this site, and move on to bigger things like volunteering more.
Do you have a community service type club at your school? At my school, it's called Interact and we do a lot of stuff to help people out. It's a really great club and I highly suggest joining it if your school offers it. And if it doesn't, perhaps you can suggest creating it? I think that would be a marvelous thing for you to do. Also, does your school do a Special Olympics? Mine does, and while I am not personally involved with it myself, I know people who are and they always tell me how much fun they have and how great they feel after helping out.
Some other things you can do are:
- Spend a Saturday or Sunday at a nursing home just talking to and spending time with the elders.
- Help out at a soup kitchen.
- Organize some sort of collection [food drive, clothes/shoes donation, toys] and then bring everything you collect to a local shelter.
- Spend a day helping at a local animal shelter.
- Go to the local foster children's home, and bring some simple things with [board games, coloring books, etc] and hand them out to all the kids.
- When it's closer to the holidays, visit a nursing home with a group of your friends and deliver Christmas cards. I did this once with art club at school, and it was truly one of the most rewarding experiences ever.
- Tutor kids at your school who are having trouble. I'd suggest starting with younger kids [maybe friends of siblings? Or neighbors?] and then once you get used to it, you can even start tutoring people your own age.
- Help out at the library, re shelving books, reading to little kids, etc.
This was a really fun question to answer, and it made me want to go do some helping out of my own. Keep me updated with what you're doing! =]
Or, if you'd like more suggestions, inbox me again.
-Laura (16-f)
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