How can Children and Students Help the Community?

When you are a student, you have time to do several things that could impact the community positively. When it comes to helping people that can never repay you, it is not about the credit it earns you or the possibility of adding these activities to your college letter. The satisfaction that you get from being of service is way much better than any form of payment.

Here are four priceless things you can do for others in your free time.

Community Service

You don’t have to wait until you are compelled by the law to offer community service. If you have some time to spare after school, you could offer to do things for the benefit of your community for free. You could collect school supplies for the underfunded institutions near you, clothes for the homeless, used furniture, or child community services, among others. When you dig up community service paper examples online, you will find inspiration for projects you could undertake for the benefit of the less fortunate around you. If you live near a hospital, you could help organize a blood drive because they almost always need blood. There are so many good essay examples online that could help you know how to go about it.

Volunteer

If you have a skill, then you have something to volunteer. If you are unsure your student-volunteering is best dispensed through skills, then give someone your time. Some students help others who are not as good as they are with a course, such as writing an essay for their education. Take some time at the shelter after college to help clean up or serve some meals, or you could talk to nearby stores to donate the ‘imperfect’ food they will not sell to these places. Cleaning up the beach or local park are also activities that don’t take much time but will be highly appreciated.

Offer Kindness

You can never be too kind, right? In a world where so many painful things happen daily, the least we could all do is show kindness. Sometimes, it manifests itself in the smallest gestures, like smiling at a stranger, holding the door for the next person, telling a parent that they are doing a great job, and even helping an older person cross the road. You never know what that word or action could do to another. These days, homelessness has affected many people, and sparing a meal for that man across the street from your school would be a thoughtful deed.

Help Neighbors

If your neighbors are elderly and need errands run, your help would go a long way in making their lives easier. You could also offer to mow the laugh for the parent next door who works all hours of the day and has no time to tend to it. After classes at the university, you could offer to walk someone’s dog if they can hardly find the time for it themselves. Both the dog and the neighbor will thank you, and you might just gain your most faithful friend yet – the furry kind.  

Conclusion

There’s a ton of activities you can do that would mean the world to others. You simply have to find the ideal one, mobilize your friends if needed, and commit to it. Showing kindness should be an everyday thing since the world could use a little more of it.

Thank you,

Glenda, Charlie and David Cates