Youth Forward – Scholarship Opportunity for Exemplary Volunteers

My essay talks about my dedication to Key Club and how it has impacted me in several different ways.

This essay describes in depth the importance of community service as it portrays leadership: building one's personality and pushing them past their normal limitations.

My volunteer experience with the Children's Hospital in Denver, Colorado has made me humble and honored to be a part of something bigger than myself. To interact wtih patients that are struggling with aggressive medical conditions has made my understanding of the medical system more extensive and has given a face to the future I want for myself.

Through a ministry through my church, I found my passion for serving and loving children. They've taught me more than anyone else has in my 17 years of life.

This essay discusses my summers volunteering with Group Work Camps, an organization created to bring youth together to help others repair and beautify their homes across the country. Ultimately, volunteering showed me the power of the individual to create change, and led me to pursue a career in environmental sustainability and health.

Kathia Valdez's volunteer experience as a youth softball coach. The valuable lessons and skills learned from this volunteer opportunity.

Most of my volunteering was spent at week long mission trips for the past 5 years. My essay describes what I obtained from these mission trips, as well as how I believe my volunteering impacted others.

In the summer of 2016, I decided to travel 900 miles away from my home to Charlottesville, West Virginia. I took on the challenge to connect with people in the Charlottesville community and help them regain their sense of freedom and independence. I went to Charlottesville with my fellow church members as a mission trip. My church members and I were assigned to be in one of over 50 randomized groups with over 1,000 other students from all across the country. My group was in charge of helping one of the most caring people I have ever met. Her name is Daisy, and she was 102 years old at the time. Daisy has been in a wheelchair for over 20 years and has not been able to get out of her house due to the extremely steep stairs leading up to the front door. I chose to help Daisy regain her ability to get out of her house in order to develop a sense of independence again because something similar happened to someone close to me. My grandpa passed away from three types of cancer, lung cancer, brain cancer, and bone cancer. He was a war veteran and my best friend. He was always moving around either inside his house fixing something, outside in his workshop, or walking the dog, he could never sit still. My grandpa was then hospitalized and lost his ability to walk, run, or work due to the powerful treatment he needed. He was never himself since the day he was diagnosed, to the day he passed. I wanted to help Daisy feel like herself again, and how she felt 20 years ago. I volunteer frequently, most of the time with my church, Meadowbrook. I would say I volunteer between 15-20 hours a month, not including mission trips that I take once or twice a year. Building Daisy a wheelchair ramp and seeing how beyond happy she was as she came outside her front door and down to the ground, was by far the most satisfying thing I have ever witnessed, not only in volunteering but in general as well, it continues to give me goosebumps to this day. Though this experience has been the most satisfying, it has been the most challenging. I traveled 900 miles away in the beginning of July with no friends, no phone, and no family. Not seeing or speaking with my family was the hardest challenge about this experience. I have learned a plethora of things while volunteering such as how much a small task can mean to someone, how giving someone a simple gift such as a pair of socks can make their life 100 times better, or how just giving someone a hug or praying for someone could be the reason they are still here today. I have learned beyond what I ever imagined from my volunteer experiences and I would never, for the slightest second, take my volunteer experiences back.

Volunteering has become one of my meaningful interests that allowed me give back to my community and educated and informed about the situations and people around me.

In the essay that I wrote I described how I volunteered, how it made me feel and lastly how it will help me in the long run.

How I've spent my time for the past ten years volunteering with the city of Carson through Mexican Folk dancing.

Volunteering is a lifestyle. I encourage everyone to dedicate a portion of their time to volunteer at a local school, shelter, soup kitchen, etc.

How volunteerism brought me closer to my community.

My personal statement reflecting upon my life, goals, and achievements.

Why I volunteer and what impact I have.

My experience as a person who has volunteered extensively at a local community youth theatre.

Describes the organization that teaches deaf children to listen and speak without the use of sign language and gain listening, speaking and literacy skills.

This is my experience volunteering at the YMCA rockwall and my impact in the volunteer program.

We are the students in front of the kids. Volunteering in Church is not a hard thing, you might think you are taking care of them, but actually they are the one give you lessons.

This essay is a brief glimpse into my time volunteering at Inspira medical center and how it has affected my life.

My school offers an elective called Ministry of Helps (MOH). It is a program that helps around the school. Being in MOH means being on time, cleaning restrooms, cafeterias, chapel, offices, gyms, painting fields and whatever assistance the school needs. I have been in MOH all my four years of high school. I usually work from 3 to 5 hours a week, depending on my class schedule. It has been a great experience. it is fun helping out the school with my friends. Whenever we have upcoming events or games, MOH is always the first group to go and help set up, clean up, or fix things. Every other day. The feeling of knowing i help out my school is a great one. Without MOH, I'm not sure if Harvest Christian Academy would be as clean as beautiful as it is. We do not really get recognized or thanked for our hard work, but that is okay. we have a fun time being in this elective and do not regret it. When i was a freshman and sophomore, the school would take us out to eat once a month as a reward. It felt great being rewarded for all our had work. My junior year and senior they stopped taking us out to eat so they could use the money for new jerseys for my soccer and basketball teams. Some people quit because we would not get rewarded, but not me. During my junior year, there was only two people left in MOH, my friend and myself. I did not care about the reward, all I cared about was helping my school. MOH has taught me a lot throughout my four years of high school. It has taught me in order to receive rewards, you must earn them through hard work and dedication. It has also taught me that you do not allows have to be a follower. Just because everyone quits something, does not mean I have to. MOH has been a fun and great elective for me and i do not regret joining.

In this short essay, I express how volunteering in my community has been influence by my dream of becoming a humanitarian and encouraging others to get involved.

In my essay I try to explain one of the ways I volunteer by working with a local group to serve the homeless population. I also try to emphasize how volunteerism has shaped who I am and the example set by my parents and family has made it something that I will always have a desire to do.

In my essay, I share the story of my year abroad in Israel, spent volunteering with Israel's African refugee population.

In hopes to lesson the high suicide rates in Alaska, I adopted a suicide prevention program and presented it to thousands of people throughout the state.

Volunteering by meeting kids where they are, allowing them to stay on their turf, to come and be a better influence and mentor to them.

How I serve in Poland and Ukraine

My experience being an adult leader in the Boy Scouts of America.