want to help serve in a soup kitchen
2 weeks ago
I would like to get a group from our church to come help serve food to the homeless people.
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How to volunteer at a soup kitchen
It made me
 "I realized that the people who go to soup kitchens don't look like the homeless people you see in movies; they look like ordinary people, just like you and me. "
How I did it: I needed volunteer hours to graduate and this was available. I figured, why not? I admit my reasons to volunteer weren't noble but by the end of the day I was glad I had volunteered. It was a fulfilling experience that gave me perspective. Lessons & tips: Be polite and don't be afraid. They don't bite. Haha!
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Teaching children to be caring
6 months ago
I want to take my daughter with me to help at a soup kitchen. She needs to learn to be more caring towards other people and not take things for granted. Also I think she’d feel good about helping others so she’d learn that you can get a good feeling inside about helping others who are less fortunate.
SprintJack is back in the saddle.
My Rules
11 months ago
Not when everyone else does it (e.g. Thanksgiving and Christmas) but when there is a lack of volunteers. Must be a medium term commitment, not just once and done.
volunteering
11 months ago
Hello, I would like to volunteer serving in a soup kitchen. I want my 15 year old to realize there are people who don’t have everything and do need help. She is at the self centered age. I wqnt to change that.nrse77@aol.com
Does anyone have any ideas. I live in Jefferson County MO.
volunteering
11 months ago
Hello, I would like to volunteer serving in a soup kitchen. I want my 15 year old to realize there are people who don’t have everything and do need help. She is at the self centered age. I wqnt to change that.
Volunteered for one year
15 months ago
The charity was helping/supporting the unemployed and lonely people
My job was to help another person to cook one meal a week for 25-50 people, wash the dishes and clean the place.
The meal was not free…but very low price
letterboxer is slowly plugging back in...
I have volunteer...
15 months ago
...as a separate goal, so I’m going to drop this one off my list. I’m still hoping to do this sometime before the end of 2008.
soup kitchen
16 months ago
Yeah I would like to volunteer at a soup kitchen, and not necessarily on Thanksgiving either. I would sort of like to do it some time this week, which happens to be June. My initial search on google hasn’t produced any results on how to volunteer at a place near me. And I don’t really leave the house or have any friends so google is pretty much all I’ve got. I’m sort of doing this as a way to get out of the house too. I live in Longmont CO, and I sort of get the feeling from this place, that people don’t put stuff up on websites too often. Any ideas?
