Community Work - did you ever help?

[mbf]

Did you ever volunteer in your community to better things?

In 2000 - in my early 20ies - I volunteered for one year at an organisation helping the homeless, drug addicts, ex-alcoholics, ex-convicts to get back to a semi-normal life.

I got yelled at, physically attacked, spit on, verbally abused and still found ut this was probably the most valuable experience in my whole life.

Mainly, because the heap of shit I saw in this one year dwarves 99.98 % of all the lamenting I experience day in day out to the real insignificance it in fact bears.

Share your stories if you got em.

[Tomfurbs]

When I was 15/16 I helped at an old folks home/ convalescent home. The people were quality, absolutely the salt of the earth, but it certainly spurred me on to start saving when I started earning and think about pensions. Also, shoot me at the first sign of dementia. Watching poeple walk around with that disease was perhaps the most disturbing thing I have ever done.

I also volunteered with a local Historical society in London when I was 18, mainly to beef up my CV. Now those people are REALLY crazy. Like, historical re-enactment type crazy!

[MrsKellyPierce]

I wont go into detail since someone gets tired of hearing about it, BUt yes

[Night Rider]

Haven't done anything in my own community but I definitely want to go and help the cause in Africa in the future.

[themaster]

I worked at what I can best describe as a food pantry, but really wasn't more of discounted food from stores who was about to throw away. It was sold at $1 and helped allot of people.

I left because the people who was running it smoked in the building and the room was also used as a daycare center. Also people insisted to save them the "Best" food. I got yelled at one person because I gave her grapes and were too bruised. A Few months later I said I was going to leave because of the treatment I received their.