Great volunteering ideas

The questions you must ask yourself when deciding what charity work you want to do include:

• How big of a difference do you want to make?
• What is my target audience, who do I want to help?
• What do I have to contribute?
• What am I prepared to do?

You need to find an volunteering/charity opportunity that fits your personality. If you are a more 'outdoorsy' type, you probably want to consider volunteering to help with a camp for homeless kids or children's homes. If you are a good organiser, you would probably want to launch a project to collect teddybears, clothes or tinned foods for homeless shelters.

Here follows a few ideas you would want to consider when deciding where to make a difference:

1. Volunteer at your local food bank helping collect, organize, and pass out food. 
2. Plant a community garden. 
3. Start a drive to collect supplies for needy school children. 
4. Go to the less fortunate communities and teach children to read. 
5. Visit your local old age home and help out the elders by reading to them, singing to them, taking them for walks, and visit them for tea.... 
6. Volunteer at the SPCA to help animals in need, volunteer to bath animals, feed them, and take them for walks... 
7. Volunteer at your local community center to teach the youth something you know well, like karate, guitar playing, drawing, and painting... 
8. Organise a car wash and donate the funds raised to a charity in your community. 
9. Volunteer at your local food bank helping collect, organize, and pass out food. 
10. Start a drive to collect small change to buy Bibles for the children in less fortunate communities.

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