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Charity/volunteer work

notreallyirishnotreallyirish member
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If you do charity or volunteer work...

What do you do?
How much?
How often?
How did you get involved?
Is it something you can do with your kids or do you have to have childcare, do it during school or leave your kids with DH?

I would really like to be more involved in my community and am looking for inspiration.
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Re: Charity/volunteer work

  • mrsrobinsontobemrsrobinsontobe member

    VP of our elementary school's PTO
    head room parent for both my son's kindergarten class and my daughter's 2nd grade class
    member of the school council for my high school where I teach 28 hours a week
    head of the advisory program at the same high school

    There are tons of opportunities once your kids are in school. Are they in pre-school yet? I was on the board of directors for our private nursery school when my children attended. Would have liked to have stayed on, but it was too much!
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  • notreallyirishnotreallyirish member
    DS1 is in preschool. DS2 will start going a couple mornings a week in May (if it works out...he stills screams bloody murder if I walk away from him). Leaving DS2 is the real challenge for me currently.
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  • dmartin726dmartin726 member
    I don't have any free time without DD.  So I do things that she can come with me, like make donations to homeless shelters of stuff I get with couponing.  We adopt soldiers overseas and write to them, make cards, send care packages.  I hand out granola bars and items to homeless people I see at stop lights.  I try to do little things to help others.

    Also -- I looked into meals on wheels, because I can do my deliveries with the kids.  

    I would love to be able to actually devote more time, but it's just not possible for me right now.  Hopefully in the next year I will be able to.  So for now I do what I can.  
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  • jensriotjensriot member

    I belong to a group that provides chemo caps, scarves, blankets and bereavement gowns to local cancer centers and hospitals. We also teach knitting and crochet at a girl scout camp and teach knitting at an underprivileged school.

    We meet weekly, but I work on caps and such as much as I can, usually 1 hour at night.

    I have crocheted forever, but hadn't done it in a while. I ran into an old friend who told me about the group. I was newly SAH and looking to meet people. So I dug my crochet hooks out of the attic and went to a meeting. The group is awesome and I get to help out by doing something I love. They taught me how to knit.

    I can take my kids to regular meetings. There are always other kids to play with. If I am trying to teach, like with the girl scouts, I get a sitter.

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