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Volunteering is to freely offer to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task.

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Submitted by Melanie Cuellar

Volunteering for my 4th year at the Miami VA Hospital. Met many special heroes and made many new friendships. I now have knowledge and appreciation that will last a life time.

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Submitted by Ana Mata

Volunteering at Pet Smart asking for donations at the humane society ... her name is Miss Missy.

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Getting together to enhance our Parks

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Submitted by Ikeazor Anieto

I donated one pint of my blood to a hospital.people need blood due to complication of child birth,accident victims and people with some other ailments.It was my humble service to God and HUMANITY.I really love humanity.I love the foundation for a better life.thank you.

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Submitted by Vicki Vieau

Volunteering is making sure those that can't speak or care for themselves are spoken and cared for--every day of their lives.

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Submitted by Ginger West

My 3 year old daughter with down syndrome Jacqui West cheering for her achievement of walking down to get her certificate at her Early Head Start Graduation. Jacqui didnt walk until 33 months and we are all so proud of her ambition to be like the other kids in her playgroup.Mommy filled with love and tears. One of my best days ever!

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Submitted by Bethany Danaher

My friends walking with these beautiful children in a township in South Africa. These children are not able to go on walks often because the home they stay at during the day does not have enough staff.

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Shifra Mincer (in her own words) I was raised in New York City where I saw the homeless shivering from cold every winter. In sixth grade, a teacher offered to bring some students to a homeless she...

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Volunteering Hero: Jim

Submitted by Joe My hero is my dad for a lot of reasons. His intelligence, creativity, and caring personality are what make him my hero. I’ll start with his intelligence. He graduated Aitkin High School in 1984 as one of the biggest rednecks. He then went to a ... Read more

Volunteering Hero: JoAnn

Submitted by Kelly Buyers My mother has spent the past 9 years working with Special Olympics. But her story of love, compassion, and patience doesn’t start there. It started 20 years ago when my younger sister, Natalie, was born. You see, my sister is mentally delayed an... Read more
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Lessons Learned from Sitting with the Dying

Submitted by Sam A Hospice – Lessons Learned Reprint - Originally Published in the Heartland Volunteer Newsletter, June 2011 By: Sam Aspley, Heartland Volunteer People come to Hospice be... Read more

Volunteers Make Homes for Homeless Youth

Submitted by Kerry Williams Thanks to generous grant support, my organization has built nine units of permanent supportive housing for homeless youth -- the first of their kind in the state of Michigan. Funding came together through a unique pu... Read more

A United World Social Network

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Taking Revenge to a Whole New Level

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Re-Gifting: Giving Away What We Have Been Given.

Submitted by Todd Owens Seven years ago, in September of 2004, 16 random people were brought together by a common gift; their ability to sing. That fateful meeting has grown into a volunteer organization that has donated over $16, 000 to cha... Read more
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Quotes
There is incredible value in being of service to others.
Elizabeth Berg Author  -
How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.
James Cash Penney Founder Of J.C. Penney Corporation  (1875-1971);
Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
Carrie Chapman Catt American Women's Rights Activist  (1859-1947);
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Indian Political And Spiritual Leader  (1869-1948);
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Physician, Nobel Peace Prize Winner  (1875-1965);

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hunter about 1 month ago from renfrew
Volunteering is fun! I love it. I'm going to do it today.
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Amelia 2 months ago from paris
I just love to volunteer ? Don't you?
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Bryan K. 3 months ago from San Diego, Ca.
I became a Boy Scout Leader 4 years ago by accident. To see the boys grow up into good young men is a reward I could never have imagined. I look to this site often for inspiration to pass along. Unconditional giving is what we are all called to do.
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Linda 7 months ago from Knoxville Tn
I've been volunteering with a local animal rescue group for 2 1/2 yrs now. I've fostered over 70 cats in my home and it's been the most rewarding and challenging experience of my life.
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Himanshu Badjatya over 1 year ago from Madhya Pradesh
When I donated blood for the first time, I was really scared but looking around at other volunteers made my fear vanish.
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Ikeazor Anieto over 1 year ago from Lagos, Nigeria
I love this foundation.When i saw their advert on CNN,I Loved it so much and i checked their website.This must be a website from America people.It is so great.for volunteering,there was a day i donated one pint of my blood to health workers for their patients who need blood in their hospitals.many patients need blood due to road traffic accident,complications of childbirth and many other diseases.I was so glad that a donated my blood.It was just a humble service to humanity.I was so glad that i saved lives of others.SO BE GOOD,Donate your blood for the sake of others who need it.
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Holly M. over 1 year ago from Scotland
I've been doing a LOT of Volunteering lately(with young children, teens, adults, ect.) at a Museum, and when the kids' face lights up when you make a doll out of corn husks, or make a cobbler on the open fire, It's priceless!!!
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Ikeazor Anieto over 1 year ago from Lagos,Nigeria
I love this foundation. There was a day when I donated one pint of my blood voluntarily to health workers for their hospital patients who need blood.
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Chavala, F. about 2 years ago from Dar-es-salaam,Tanzania
Sometimes we get information, sometime we don't; Sometime we do right things rightly, sometime we don't;Sometime we travel far, sometime we dwell dormant. No matter how many of those are SOMETIMES; How many times do we do what we do for MANKIND? If you have never thought of living for people, then you better start now before it is too late. This is what other people call Volunteering.
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Steve F. over 2 years ago from Arizona
What a great idea. I was just praying for something, and I saw your commercial. How can I help?

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