So tell me about volunteering!

[DottyDuck]

As the title says, please tell me about volunteering and your experiences of it. I am paritcularly interesting in befriending/ buddying! Have any of you done anything similar? how have you found it?
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[yen_powell]

I went to help out at The Salvation Army one Christmas day, feeding the nutters and the down and outs.

I turned up at the front door first thing and the cheeky fuckers handed me soup and a roll before I made them understand I was a volunteer.
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[Clanger]

Volunteered at a disabled school in Chiang Mai, Thailand for two weeks in 2005 - I worked in the English class, converted lots of their Americanised books to proper English...and spent a lot of time having small conversations and lots of smiles and laughter.

I have also worked in specific sectors recruiting volunteers. If you are serious about befriending type volunteering, then you need to be sure that you want the commitment as most places will ask you to dedicate up to two years to such a role.

If you can commit the time, then do it...if you plan to work with kids, they will take a bit of time to warm to you, but if you show consistency, and patience - above all, you will be rewarded in ways which will make you smile for a long time.
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