Immigrant Population Observation Report

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When it came down to volunteering in the past, I never really thought of the needs of the population. But working with immigrants, a group of people that I enjoy spending time with, it’s come to my attention that there are some changes that must be made. The needs for my population include more funds for more teachers to increase the amount of one on one instruction. With only one volunteer and one teacher, I had to trust that the students that didn’t ask for my help understood what they were learning. The class had I do feel that having more volunteers would probably change that problem. The needs I saw for my population was mostly more funds for more classes in different library locations. The needs I saw in regards to the immigrant population …show more content…

The classes provide what a student needs with learning English. For me, I felt that the advocacy letter really brought together what I was trying to say about my population. My advocacy letter brought the awareness for how necessary these classes are for the community. Doing my service only helped a small population, didn’t do something huge or anything but I am very happy to be able to do the little I did. I think that the amount I have for immigrants has grown tremendously. My personal definition for compassion means seeing the problems of others and taking the time to help fix those problems. I don’t think that a person doesn’t necessarily need to have the same life experiences to be able to understand others. For me it comes down to respecting the differences of others. Having compassion has made me want to share that compassion with others. Yet before that, I never really understood how I could help my community with my direct service. I have become even more aware of my community. I’ve always somewhat known that a lot of Vietnamese immigrants live in my community but it was only through my service was I able to see a more diverse picture of my community. There was so many different people who came some days and its was interesting hearing their life experiences. Here were so many different people, all immigrants uniting over learning …show more content…

Although English might not be the universal language, hand gestures and drawing pictures is a great way of communicating with others. I’ve never really had to do that in my day to day life. Having that has really made me think a lot more about how words aren’t the only way to communicate with others. That has really helped out with my volunteering with my efforts. I feel that my volunteering has helped some of the population. Even if I have only helped a small class in I have feel that I have been able to help some students understand. My examples really helped explain a bit more the words that might have not made any sense at

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