Volunteer work in your younger years?
Volunteer work in your younger years?
I did volunteer and non volunteer work for a non-profit organization helping folks who have AIDS, including preventing vertical transmission (from mother to new born), local lobby, medication, etc.
I was the IT guy, and provided all the tech support.
For 2012 I will join another non-profit organization (in a different town, since I've moved) which helps kids with autism.
All I can say is that it's nice to help, definitely worth it!
1982 s123 300TD TurboDiesel (US Spec) in France
I'm not sure if it's relevant (being across the pond) but I do think the overall positiveness of the idea is the same.
I did volunteer and non volunteer work for a non-profit organization helping folks who have AIDS, including preventing vertical transmission (from mother to new born), local lobby, medication, etc.
I was the IT guy, and provided all the tech support.
For 2012 I will join another non-profit organization (in a different town, since I've moved) which helps kids with autism.
All I can say is that it's nice to help, definitely worth it!
1982 s123 300TD TurboDiesel (US Spec) in France
EXTREMELY SATISFYING !!!!!
If we could sit for a few hours so that I could tell the stories, you would jump right in & go for it.
Ed
yankneck696
01-07-2012, 03:48 PM #4Vstef.... Excellent. I was on the other end. Helped raise money for a camp for children with AIDS. The camp was on Martha's Vineyard. Also set up constant toy donations from Toys R Us (still going after 12 years) & computer & internet service donations for the kids.
EXTREMELY SATISFYING !!!!!
If we could sit for a few hours so that I could tell the stories, you would jump right in & go for it.
Ed
(01-07-2012, 01:27 PM)garage Well i usually pick up alot of trash in campgrounds, parks, and wilderness areas.
I guess thats volunteer work. haha, I just do it on my own, but i enjoy it.
Damn litter bugs everywhere.
HATE When ppl litter!
1982 300D Turbo ... 3,6xxlbs, No fan, No AC, Hood Stack, No ALDA, No rear bumper and stuffed front, A/W Intercooled, Injectors by Greezer and HUGE Pre-Chambers with help from OM616 & Simpler=Better, Fuel Cranked up, 60 Trim Compressor wheel, EGT, EMP, Boost 50" Rigid Radius bar on roof Aux tank for a total of 48 Gal Of Diesel! Odyssey PC-1750 Battery in trunk, 27"x8.5"/R14 Maxxis BigHorn Mud Terrains, In June '14 issue of Off Road Mag
AX15 Jeep Trans swap in progress....
Captain America
01-07-2012, 07:17 PM #5(01-07-2012, 01:27 PM)garage Well i usually pick up alot of trash in campgrounds, parks, and wilderness areas.
I guess thats volunteer work. haha, I just do it on my own, but i enjoy it.
Damn litter bugs everywhere.
HATE When ppl litter!
1982 300D Turbo ... 3,6xxlbs, No fan, No AC, Hood Stack, No ALDA, No rear bumper and stuffed front, A/W Intercooled, Injectors by Greezer and HUGE Pre-Chambers with help from OM616 & Simpler=Better, Fuel Cranked up, 60 Trim Compressor wheel, EGT, EMP, Boost 50" Rigid Radius bar on roof Aux tank for a total of 48 Gal Of Diesel! Odyssey PC-1750 Battery in trunk, 27"x8.5"/R14 Maxxis BigHorn Mud Terrains, In June '14 issue of Off Road Mag
AX15 Jeep Trans swap in progress....
-1982 300D Turbo, 280k miles, ALDA apparently maxxed, fram 8038, 12 lbs boost, non-egr manifolds, W/M injection, 4 brake light mod, Gen II w126 front rotors/calipers, 4-speed swap
In the works: A/W IC, adjust pump, turbo rebuild (w/60 trim comp wheel)
-1980 300SD, 110k, project car. Goal is to get it lookin' like it did on the showroom floor (body and interior wise, not necessarily under the hood )
-1974 240D, FRESH PAINT!!!!!!
sassparilla_kid
01-08-2012, 03:32 AM #6Im an eagle scout so I have done all sorts of volunteer work, from helping people carry plants to their car at the annual plant sale the local senior center has to collecting waste electronics for recycling to working in soup kitchens etc. etc.
-1982 300D Turbo, 280k miles, ALDA apparently maxxed, fram 8038, 12 lbs boost, non-egr manifolds, W/M injection, 4 brake light mod, Gen II w126 front rotors/calipers, 4-speed swap
In the works: A/W IC, adjust pump, turbo rebuild (w/60 trim comp wheel)
-1980 300SD, 110k, project car. Goal is to get it lookin' like it did on the showroom floor (body and interior wise, not necessarily under the hood )
-1974 240D, FRESH PAINT!!!!!!
1974 240D 617 turbo swap, W201 5-speed, in the works project
1983 240D 616 stock, DD
1989 Chevy Astro, 617 turbo swap, T5 5-speed, 4.56 diff, work van
I also have a friend who used to volunteer at a children's hospital and another that organises and help out with games and stuff for kids at his church.
There is plenty of volunteer stuff to do out there all you gotta do is pick something that sounds good and go for it!!!
-1982 300D Turbo, 280k miles, ALDA apparently maxxed, fram 8038, 12 lbs boost, non-egr manifolds, W/M injection, 4 brake light mod, Gen II w126 front rotors/calipers, 4-speed swap
In the works: A/W IC, adjust pump, turbo rebuild (w/60 trim comp wheel)
-1980 300SD, 110k, project car. Goal is to get it lookin' like it did on the showroom floor (body and interior wise, not necessarily under the hood )
-1974 240D, FRESH PAINT!!!!!!
sassparilla_kid
01-08-2012, 03:21 PM #9Some of my friends' eagle scout project include: organise a giant e-recycle and collected two semi trucks full of electronics in one weekend, one painted all the hand rails and cleaned up a police rifle/pistol range, collect books and shelving units to make a small library for a rescue mission, build a disc golf course near a local lake, clean and paint an underpass (walking type), make an excercise course with different excersize stations placed around a local high school, organise aphabetise and catalog probably a thousand books a museum had in storage so they could have a library, build planter boxes for a church garden, and for mine I built a pinewood derby track and donated it to an organisation that runs headstart programs and offers services to other non-profit groups such as boys'/girls' clubs schools churches etc.
I also have a friend who used to volunteer at a children's hospital and another that organises and help out with games and stuff for kids at his church.
There is plenty of volunteer stuff to do out there all you gotta do is pick something that sounds good and go for it!!!
-1982 300D Turbo, 280k miles, ALDA apparently maxxed, fram 8038, 12 lbs boost, non-egr manifolds, W/M injection, 4 brake light mod, Gen II w126 front rotors/calipers, 4-speed swap
In the works: A/W IC, adjust pump, turbo rebuild (w/60 trim comp wheel)
-1980 300SD, 110k, project car. Goal is to get it lookin' like it did on the showroom floor (body and interior wise, not necessarily under the hood )
-1974 240D, FRESH PAINT!!!!!!
1987 300D: EGR Delete, ARV Delete, Cold Air Intake...
(01-08-2012, 03:53 PM)garage Catch people dumping trash illeagly then take they're lisence plate number and model of vehicle and call the cops on em! Or wack em in the head with a baseball bat(only kidding(kinda))
Hahaha around here the plates are undoubtedly stolen from cars in the DMV parking lot
-1982 300D Turbo, 280k miles, ALDA apparently maxxed, fram 8038, 12 lbs boost, non-egr manifolds, W/M injection, 4 brake light mod, Gen II w126 front rotors/calipers, 4-speed swap
In the works: A/W IC, adjust pump, turbo rebuild (w/60 trim comp wheel)
-1980 300SD, 110k, project car. Goal is to get it lookin' like it did on the showroom floor (body and interior wise, not necessarily under the hood )
-1974 240D, FRESH PAINT!!!!!!
sassparilla_kid
01-08-2012, 04:44 PM #11(01-08-2012, 03:53 PM)garage Catch people dumping trash illeagly then take they're lisence plate number and model of vehicle and call the cops on em! Or wack em in the head with a baseball bat(only kidding(kinda))
Hahaha around here the plates are undoubtedly stolen from cars in the DMV parking lot
-1982 300D Turbo, 280k miles, ALDA apparently maxxed, fram 8038, 12 lbs boost, non-egr manifolds, W/M injection, 4 brake light mod, Gen II w126 front rotors/calipers, 4-speed swap
In the works: A/W IC, adjust pump, turbo rebuild (w/60 trim comp wheel)
-1980 300SD, 110k, project car. Goal is to get it lookin' like it did on the showroom floor (body and interior wise, not necessarily under the hood )
-1974 240D, FRESH PAINT!!!!!!
Volunteer at any large local clothes bank and you will find out quickly which local service clubs are active. My mom has been at a clothes bank for more than 40 years, President of it for the last 10. Anyone who is in charity work in the Puget Sound region, she knows. Not to mention half the elected Democrats in this state.
From my mom I have a pad I carry in my glove box. Phone numbers of all local shelters, plus a voucher for clothes at my mom's clothes bank. I dispense these as I see fit, to people begging at freeway off-ramps, et cetera. A lot of these are just hustlers. But a few have been genuine and I've saved them from spending a chilly night under a freeway overpass.
Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary, Elks, Eagles, and Moose are all pretty big around here.
Gone but not forgotten: two W123 sedans and two W124 wagons.
W124 1987 300TD wagon, for sale, $1000 (some assembly required).
JustPassinThru
01-08-2012, 05:38 PM #12Junior Kiwanis Club in high school. It probably would have generated great references for my resume from local small businessmen, probably even employment, if I'd stuck with it.
Volunteer at any large local clothes bank and you will find out quickly which local service clubs are active. My mom has been at a clothes bank for more than 40 years, President of it for the last 10. Anyone who is in charity work in the Puget Sound region, she knows. Not to mention half the elected Democrats in this state.
From my mom I have a pad I carry in my glove box. Phone numbers of all local shelters, plus a voucher for clothes at my mom's clothes bank. I dispense these as I see fit, to people begging at freeway off-ramps, et cetera. A lot of these are just hustlers. But a few have been genuine and I've saved them from spending a chilly night under a freeway overpass.
Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary, Elks, Eagles, and Moose are all pretty big around here.
Gone but not forgotten: two W123 sedans and two W124 wagons.
W124 1987 300TD wagon, for sale, $1000 (some assembly required).
Gone but not forgotten: two W123 sedans and two W124 wagons.
W124 1987 300TD wagon, for sale, $1000 (some assembly required).
JustPassinThru
01-09-2012, 06:16 AM #13Or, if your motto is "Go big or go home," then join The Red Cross, The Peace Corps, or OxFam, and see the world.
Gone but not forgotten: two W123 sedans and two W124 wagons.
W124 1987 300TD wagon, for sale, $1000 (some assembly required).
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