<p>Kids, the mentally or physically challenged, the elderly??? Wow, ummm, isn't there anything like normalish...like even a hospital in the ward where pregnant women go? I mean how uncomfortable could that be? Also, do you have something called habitat for humanity in the states? where you build houses etc.?</p>
<p>BookAddict-are you required to get community hours? If so how many?</p>
<p>Yeah, we have habitat for humanity. I haven't done it, but I heard some people really like helping out with it.</p>
<p>Ummm...what do you mean by "normal?" Perfectly healthy teens and adults? </p>
<p>And there are opportunities in hospitals, though unless you're a premed student, you'll probably just be doing paperwork and stuff. And there are opportunities in museums and sports games like I said earlier. Any public building or service could probably use some help. Or maybe try to find a way to use the things you like to do in order to fundraise?</p>
<p>I'm not required to do community service anymore (I'm in college), though I still do it. In high school, I didn't have to do community service in order to graduate, but I had to do some for NHS and just to get into college. As I said before, though, most of the community service I did I would have done anyway.</p>
<p>I personally LOVE the feeling i get from giving blood (not the feeling of a lack of blood...just helping out a struggling area of medicine with such ease) and WOULD organize a drive but have like no time what with my job and school. I still give blood every 56ish days. 3x before I am 18 basically because I started late (you have to be 17 as is).
You could easily get 40 hours doing this project.
Habitat for Humanity is also an awesome charity and I AGAIN nearly helped build a house near my community but couldn't make it for a weekend, etc. Plus, this was freshman year before I enjoyed any of my service.
I have done certain ecological services so you could organize a school-wide or a local park/forest pickup. This won't get you 40 hrs right off the bat but it'll give you at least 10 while doing it if its a whole day thing and possibly even 10 planning.
Other things you could do are basic fundraisers/food drives through your church/school, donate time to a food pantry or go with your friend to that kitchen, organize a charity sports tournament where it costs $20 to enter (2 on 2 bball, pingpong, 3v3 soccer, wiffleball [$10/person due to large teams], etc), donate time to local library/townhall, etc, etc. Put your mind to it and be creative or roam these boards for ideas.</p>
<p>it's fun & it makes you feel good, but right now i have no time for it. but i still do it since i want more hours, hahaha. i'd enjoy doing it if i had the time, but since i don't, i'm at the point where i'm doing it because i need to for hours. if i didn't HAVE to, i probably wouldn't since i don't have time. :(</p>
<p>i LOVE my volunteer job its AMAZING... i assist in a class for immigrants on the US citizenship test and its totally broadend my world view and changed what i want to major in (international relations). not to mention, ive met the most interesting and fascinating people and im no longer bored with my dreary little 92% white, 85% catholic city and its helped me with my spanish (we get a lot of mexicans and salvadorians) and ive learned about different cultures and WOAH i just love it</p>
<p>and i dont do it out of "selflessness" i do it because i learn so much from it and ive come to love the people and because its an experience and every experience has something to teach me :-)</p>
<p>I think to an extent i have always enjoyed volunteering...like ive always wanted to volunteer at hospitals cuz the atmosphere interests me, but as soon as it became a requirement it became a mad rush to get in hours and i stopped caring what i was volunteering for or who i was helping, and not even looking into my own interests when signing up for things..which kind of defeats the whole purpose...</p>
<p>Well, I started doing community service because I know that colleges like it. But now I enjoy it. I've been doing this for a couple of years, so I know everyone, and it's actually really nice to go in and just talk to the residents. I think part of it has to do with the fact that the residents all have Alzheimer's disease to an extent, but they're still really enthusiastic about seeing me.</p>
<p>I'd definitely continue with community service in college (provided I have the time), but I think I might try working with kids. I have a part-time at Kumon, which helps kids of all ages with math and reading. I like helping the little kids, so I want to try working with inner city kids (if I end up going where I want to).</p>
<p>I usually like it. I like my regular one. I tutor a little girl, almost mentor her. It's a lot of fun. I love the kid.</p>