Hello my fellow peers, I am writing my first ever blog on what it was like to volunteer at The YMCA.
Volunteering is very important to me because it means i can help the community out. During these difficult times It also helps me know that I’m doing good in the community. I volunteered at the YMCA which is a Non-Profit organization that helps kids out and make sure they get to have fun. I loved being able to help these kids out and just watching them smile and run around was the best moment of the day.
In my mind the main aspect of doing this was too help out what needed to be helped out with so when i got there stuff needed to be set up and I helped with the set up.
When running the event everything was very organized and nicely put together. In one area we had games running like for example someone was running a baseball game while in another corner we had a hopscotch game running and in the next corner we had a person telling kids what they wanted to do when they grew up so we had a very nice organization of activity set up. There were about 5-10 volunteers during the day i went each person was in charge of the activity and if we had a question we would ask a supervisor.
So when i got there i asked if you needed any help and they said yes so what i did was asked what they needed and they told me that today was a play day and activity session. They asked me if I played any sports and i said baseball so what i did is that i explained to the kids on how baseball is played and that they should play the best game in the world. I also asked the kids what their favorite baseball team was and some said cubs and some said cardinals. Being able to connect with the kids was a wonderful moment because it got me thinking that i could do this one day and teach my kids to volunteer. I would go back and do more activities instead of just talking about baseball. However with that being said I would 100% go back and do it again i learned a lot while I was there.
If i was in charge of running the session i would keep it simple, which would be just talk and teach about one thing while we had people helping us out i feel like they would get more out of it.
With all of this being said, I learned so much doing this. It helps me in the future and what i could do down the road and it helps me with my future classes because i now know what this means and how volunteer helps the community and workplace. The YMCA will be around for a long time because they have a great workplace and a great staff that runs it.
What I learned being apart of this group helped me learn a lot of volunteering in ways that it will help me down the road. Now that I’ve done the volunteering I would recommend to anyone to volunteer and go help the community and meet new people.
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