Community Service
By: Erica Dickerhoof
Importance of Community Service
• Gets one involved in their community • Meet new people • Makes one feel good about themselves • Looks good on future applications • “You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours”
Types of Community Service
Service Learning
Collect Donations for Make a Wish Foundation
Habitat for Humanity: MLK Build
Helping at Big Shanty’s Carnival
• Grant the wishes of children with lifethreatening medical conditions • One of the world’s most well-known charities • Make-A-Wish Foundation
Collect Donations for Make a Wish Foundation
Table in Palms Quad Collect any sort of money people had on them They could make a wish when giving money
•This organization helps those that deal with housing crises •225,000 houses have been built •Habitat for Humanity
MLK Build
• January 15, 2007 • Build in Memory of MLK • Location: 815 Nardo Street
Me with the hammer and nails trying to be useful on site.
I am about to climb the latter to nail security hooks on the top of the wall.
Big Shanty Intermediate School
• Helped raise money for the schools PTA by working the carnival
This is me after I popped all this popcorn for the carnival!
Selling Drinks!
Me doing my job getting drinks for the people at the carnival.
Hillary doing a wonderful job being happy as always while getting drinks for others.
Would I do it again?
Fun + Feeling Good + Helping Others + Meeting Wonderful People = Of Course I Would Help The Community Again
Thoughts on Community Service
• Service learning makes one feel like a better person. • It helps others that are worse off than ourselves. • It is also a very fun activity to get involved with.