Why I Volunteer At The Eccles-Lesher Memorial Library

There are many ideas that come to mind when asked about being a good neighbor. The most important is to give back to the community; volunteerism is key to being a good neighbor. I have shown this in many ways that I will explain further. For five years now, I have volunteered at the Summer Reading program at the Eccles-Lesher Memorial Library. I took up many duties during my time volunteering, such as serving food, helping the children complete their crafts, cleaning, and doing several activities. Some days they would complete a craft which I would help to direct them with, and other days there would be a full activity depending on the theme of the program that summer. I would serve them their snacks, and also clean up after them when they finished. Of five years of doing this, I have completed at least 100 hours of community service at the library. Critter Club was another program at the Eccles-Lesher Memorial Library that I also volunteered for. I had much of the same responsibilities, other than I dealt strictly with children under four years old only, making it more of a tedious job, and required much more cleaning. I served them snacks and cleaned up after them, and ready them stories on the letters they learned that day. I would also help them with their crafts, or complete crafts for the younger babies.

There is a program, King’s Kids, which involves teaching children about Christianity while having fun. I also volunteered there for half a decade and was considered a valuable member of the staff. Most of my duties resided in the kitchen making and serving snacks to the children, but there were rare occurrences in which I would teach them Bible lessons or help with crafts. Almost every week there are over a hundred children that attend and worked to feed them all, whether it was baking snacks, pouring drinks, cleaning tables, or serving the