Sören Kupke (Abi 2002) wrote this report about his office in New Hampshire. If you can still ask the friend of Marius (Abi 2009), then finds out how little he had days off, and whether he was ever paid. His community service office is / was right around the corner in Rockland County.
Dear friends, I promise
you would like to give, after nearly a month in my
community service agency, some information about it. I say at
in advance, my company is looking for 6 new volunteers each year, and I could well imagine
me that some of you pretty well here
would like, especially because of the proximity to home. But everything after
the series ...
I work since 15 May as a volunteer in the community in
Luke Temple, New Hampshire. The Luke community is an organization
care for mentally disabled adults. In three houses where one family lives
(all with many children) who live
total of 20 mentally handicapped (or Residents, as we call them).
addition, 6 volunteers to help, so 2 per house, come mostly from
Germany and England.
Our Residents are from 26 to 60 years old and are different
severely disabled: Some need almost constant care, and other
seem almost normal, except that they could not stop outside the community
organize an independent life.
While a volunteer in the morning and evening with meals in
is assigned to his house where you live also, in the morning and afternoon
find joint activities take place, in which the entire community comes together
or is classified according to their skills in workshops
. Here you can volunteer, of course, express his personal desires
. As the workshops are as
gardening (the community has some fields and a greenhouse for
own use), Animal Care (cows fed milk and goats and)
Weavery (the community has its own weaving), Wood Workshop, Cooking,
House Cleaning, and Education Classes, as history and geography
.
looks for volunteers plan a week like this: At 5 days
will work, including 3 times from 7 to 5, and 2 times late to 9 On two
(related) days, you're free, with one already on the day before
has free by 5. However, these days are not necessarily the
weekend, one can express his own wishes, if the drain is
. Eg I have Sunday and Monday off.
Until now I am on the weekends always gone to New York, also
because I give private lessons and my petrol money loose again
get out. The trip takes about 4 hours, but in an emergency
in 3 and a half to create. Petrol is very cheap up here. The trip
costs in the VW bus about $ 25 round trip, with an American car
it might be something more.
My daily routine of a busy day looks like this:
0630 up
0700 awakening our 4 Residents
0730 an assistant of 4 during a shower or make breakfast
0800 Breakfast and kitchen in order
bring 0900 All meet at the find parking and come together in their
groups for the morning
1200 End of the morning workshops, back to the homes
1230 Lunch
1300 Lunch (2 hours free)
1500 meeting to afternoon workshops
1700 Back home, dinner to make
1800 dinner after cooking in order to bring
2000: watch movies, or make crafts, draw, anything. help
2000 During some go to bed, brush your teeth to help end
2100
not worry, it looks like a lot, but quite relaxed.
Especially because everything is planned for a long time, so
everything goes very slow. If anyone of you is interested, I can tell you like more
.
I am very happy with this place, and I can highly recommend all
who have no problems with the following things: getting up early
long (but not very hard) work in a fairly remote location in the woods
New Hampshire (The only
Night Life of the 24-hour Wal Mart).
The positives outweigh but clear: The long weekend
(longer than most other foreign bodies), the proximity to New
York (if you after school still there moves), you get
$ 2,400 spending money (each month 200), and you have four weeks
break, and my knowledge is much longer than a normal
community service.
I hope you found this information useful to give you an insight into the civil service
abroad, you should definitely make
, rather than in Germany. There are a lot of interesting places mostly in the Third World, and a year in such a position will be very valuable for your life.
Good luck with the search, and if anyone is interested here in one place for me has
, please contact us! take
Best regards, Sören
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