Volunteering (page 2)

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I've coached youth sports and volunteer my energy and skills at a local non-profit.

I belong to a group that makes quilts that are donated to kids in crisis. Some go to kids in hospitals, homeless kids. When a crack house is closed, they aren't allowed to take anything out including bedding and clothes. Everything is considered contaminated. Till the kids get to social services They will probably be wrapped in one of our quilts or a policemans jacket. It feels so good to be making a difference.

misanthropic

Bsmart- that's awesome. I have a friend who's a nurse, she told me there's a group of ladies that knit blankets for the sickly preemie babies at the hospital; to be swaddled in when they go home.

blondie

I have volunteered in various areas:

1) Teaching English as a second languange (ESL)

2) Translator Spanish to English and English to Spanish

3) Facilitator in 2 support groups (not jw related)

4) Help disabled people access support services

5) Treasurer and vice president in political activist group

6) Help older people with laundry, doctor appts, cleaning

(not all at the same time)

There is a column in the local paper with 5 suggestions each week and there is a phone number 211 that directs you to an organization that matches volunteers up with groups that can use their abilities

Broken Promises

I volunteer at a local museum. It's mainly data work, but it's putting information into a computer system that generations later will hopefully be using for research a hundred years from now.

I'm not curing cancer or helping sick children, but it's a little something that I can do, in my own time, at my own pace. Plus the people I volunteer with are lovely people and I've made friends from doing it (which is important when leaving the JWs.)

Franklin Massey

I do regular volunteer work in our community. Youth sports facilities, homeless shelters, and public parks are just a few places I like to help.

SweetBabyCheezits

I was going to set up a booth to offer free mammograms but my wife gave me cold feet. She says you have to be "licensed" - whatever that means.

But, to be serious, I recently signed up with Red Cross and also inquired with a group that organizes events called Help Portrait to shoot portraits and make prints for those who are less fortunate. I'm hoping to be involved in this year's campaign and to get my daughter to assist.

nolongerwaiting

I do volunteer work and find it to be fun. I don't want to say what it is in case someone is spying on me. Darn spies are everywhere. That's why I have to wear a trench coat everywhere I go.

NLW's wife

chickpea

unpaid board member of a local chapter of a national advocacy group
for social justice and civil rights for LGBT citizens, as well as being
a volunteer (grunt) at the local cultural center.... spent 3 years
as a moderator on a discussion board for adult survivors of
childhood sexual abuse... local events need volunteers for
prep work and breakdown, so if i can, i do...

snakeface

I was not raised as a JW. As a teen I volunteered during the summer to tutor younger students in Reading and Math. After becoming a JW I volunteered in the local Emergency Room and in an animal shelter. After being appointed I volunteered in the prison system to be a spiritual advisor to death row inmates, along with ministers from a variety of religions. After leaving the JW's I still do many of these things plus I joined the Civil Air Patrol, and I participate in fundraisers for cancer research.

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