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Service Learning

My Experience: Volunteering and Community Service

I was not able to volunteer at the Houston or NYC Food Bank, so I'm writing about my other experiences for Service Learning, Volunteering and Community. I have volunteered to assist my colleagues whom are from the nation of Haiti. We have collected toiletries from hotels stays (I'm a flight Attendant all F/A's contribute), school supplies, clothing as well as food. I have also had the honor of flying to Haiti to delivery these donations.

On one occasion, I had the opportunity to visit an orphanage and a home that housed mothers and their children. This was the saddest most emotional part of the trip, seeing the mothers of these precious babies. As I interacted with the families and got to hold this one particular baby, he was so cute. The mother said, "You can have him, you can keep him." It brought tears to my eyes. All mothers want a better life for their children and was willing to let me have their child to try to achieve this end.

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Service Learning

Service-learning involves students in community service activities and applies the experience to personal and academic development. Service-learning course objectives are linked to real community needs that are designed in cooperation with community partners and service recipients.

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Service-learning engages students in a three-part process: classroom preparation through explanation and analysis of theories and ideas; service activity that emerges from and informs classroom context; and structured reflection tying service experience back to specific learning goals.

Volunteering

Any activity that involves spending time, unpaid, doing something that aims to benefit the environment or someone (individuals or groups) other than, or in addition to, close relatives. Central to this definition is the fact that volunteering must be a choice freely made by each individual. This can include formal activity undertaken through public, private and voluntary organizations as well as informal community participation.

i. Teamwork

I felt there was a great deal of teamwork that was present in Haiti. The volunteers were all pretty motivated people that were all there to offer the maximum contribution that they could. I think the high levels of dedication that was present definitely contributed to the level of teamwork.

ii. Communication was often a problem because there were many people there from different cultures who spoke different languages. There were communication barriers that were frequent and often required the use of a translator.

iii. Networking There were several networking opportunities that were available.….....

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