Personal Narrative: My First Volunteer Opportunity

My first volunteer opportunity was when I was in high school , for a nonprofit organization called UPLIFT which stands for Urban People Living in Faith and Trust. This organization focuses on providing after-school tutoring and life skills training to low income children living in San Diego. While participating in UPLIFT, I have learned how to build my communication skills as well as how to develop positive relationships. My duties included organizing field trips, help with filing, computer input, and making phone calls. During the summer I assisted in a two-week summer program where I helped plan and carry activities for inner city kids. Since the age of eighteen, I been employed at Double Tree by Hilton Downtown where I am a server. My duties

include taking orders from diverse guest within a dining establishment, answering phone calls, cleaning tables and greeting guests.
Furthermore, my second internship took place on the summer of 2011through 2013 for the organization Urban Corps of San Diego Country. I provided a total of three hundredth hours of community services. My duties included grading homework assignments, photocopying, typing, working with one to one with students, and filing.
The fallowing year I volunteer for Mid-City Community Clinic Pediatrics located in City Heights through Price Charities. My duties included making phone calls to patients to remind them about their upcoming appointments, inputing data and on several occasions I translated for doctors and nurses. Been a volunteer for this public agency not only gave me job experience but it made me engage and understand the problems that many people face and how they are impacted by every day.
After taking my first Chicano/a class I was inspired to join Local 30 United Here located in Sherman Heights. I started as a volunteer and in a couple of months later i was offered a internship by the vice president. Along with other college students we were able to travel to Los Angles and Temecula to obtained training in how to communicate with workers and more information about the agency.
My job consisted of leaning several techniques in how to empower workers to go against their companies and fight for better working conditions. I must admit that it was a very difficult job, on several occasions workers refused to talk to me but i was abled to overcome this challenges. Today I feel more confident talking to workers and how a union works