I have to do community service hours for school, what should i do?

Question

I still don't know what to do.. I want to do something different than last year though. Last year, I donated gift baskets to homeless shelter and helped at an elementary school. I am in the SoCali area.

Answer 1

i live in so cal too!! what i do is:

-hospital volunteer

-walk/feed dogs at animal shelter

-entertain at senior center

-read to kids at the library

-tutor kids at the elementary school

-city/beach clean up

-red cross

-serve food at soup kitchen

*it's a quick way of racking up hours plus it's not boring because there are so many things to do.

Answer 2

I think you should go and do a beach, park, or forest clean up. They are fun with a friend and you feel good about your self because you know your helping the environment. By helping the environment you help everyone and everything in it.

Answer 3

Donate your time to a soup kitchen or help at the humane society.

Answer 4

Find hundreds of volunteering opportunities through these online databases:

VolunteerMatch, http://www.volunteermatch.org

Idealist, http://www.idealist.org

Change.org, http://www.change.org

CraigsList, http://www.craigslist.com

Network for Good, http://www.networkforgood.org

http://www.1-800-volunteer.org/

ServeNet, http://servenet.org/

Also, contact your local volunteer center; you can find this via the Points of Light Foundation web site, http://www.pointsoflight.org/centers/

There's also this government sponsored site, http://volunteer.gov/gov/ which provides volunteer positions through USA federal land agencies like Fish & Wildlife, Forest Service, National Parks, etc.

If you want to be a volunteer to help with the consequences of a natural disaster, such as Hurricane Katrina, you need to register and prepare NOW. Here's a web site where you can register and start your preparation so that you can help the next time disaster strikes:

http://www.helpindisaster.org/