Giving Back to the community

Hi all,
Just wanted to share that I am applying for a volunteer job in my community for the victim assistance society in my City. I think it will be interesting work helping people who have been victimlized by crime, or disasters (house fires etc). I have been interested in working with charities for a while now but haven't had any opportunities that interst me. Hopefully this will help feed my soul so to speak and make me feel closer to my fellow humans lol.

Tarra

That's great!! It's always good to help others. I love doing charities too. You get to help people in need and meet others who also want to act. Keep up the good work.

It is good you choose to help others. It is a very commendable thing to do especially in the status of our world where chilvary is nearly dead.

Helping others is a good way to bridge between our collectiveness as a race. That is of course if you haven't lost faith in it like I am on brink of. Still I persist to do something to help mend the world even if its small stitches and rifts at a time.

I find helping others is the best way in helping ourselves grow as an individual and as a race.

Being that i hate my full time job which i have been doing for 15 years and becoming very disheartened with people, i find i need to connect again with people now that i am older and more confident with myself. I think its the only way i can truly help myself become more whole spiritually as well as show my children how fullfililng it can be to help others.

Yes, helping others does not only benefit them but yourself too. It's a very warm feeling like Dragon said.

there's a thrift store in my area called the Woemen's Resource Center. they are run by regular volunteers and they help women that are in abusive situations or need help in other ways. There's a Wiccan woman that works there and i thought that was really awesome.

Volunteering is such a rewarding experience! I worked with Big Brothers, Big Sisters for awhile (mentorship program), and while my "little sister" and I ended up not relating all that well, it was one of the most amazing experiences I could imagine having. Kudos to you!

Returning back to the community takes a lot in many ways. I recall volunteering at a HIV hospice, the emotional cloud I attained from there hung over me for a good awhile. But I may have let it affected it me too much or perhaps it is better to feel it than feel numb towards the fact.

I think that in this day and age, people are numb towards people they are not directly involved with. With incidents of people left dying on streets and such i think everyone needs to step up and help one another, and not just within our social circles.