Volunteering Experience Essay

The center I volunteered at in Charleston West Virginia was called the Oak Ridge Center, it was a place for older people to recovery from surgery or to have assisted living. During my time volunteering at Oak Ridge Center many new experiences were introduced to me, such as the seniors in this community would share life lessons with me, the employees were a caring and gifted group that shared their knowledge of senior healthcare with me, lastly, in spite of the some cultural differences I managed to learn different values. Volunteering at this Senior Center helped me understand more about senior citizens and the struggles the go through daily.
My volunteering experience was good. I learned a lot from the seniors and the nurses. During the times I went to Oak Ridge I experience that the people there just wanted to be treated like normal folks, they wanted to be able to be self-reliant. One such example was of a man trying to be self-reliant. He was in a wheel chair and wanted to get out of the one they put him in and go into a new one, he wanted

I helped Oak Ridge gain a profit because I helped to create apple butter that would be sold which would help create revenue for the home. I also feel that I helped enrich the lives of the seniors because I gave them a younger person to educate with their knowledge. I feel that I had the most impact on Jessie because he told me that his family didn’t really visit him and that when I visited him it made him happy. I don’t only think that I enriched their life with my presence I believe they helped to enrich mine because they taught me knowledge that is valuable. The feeling that I got while helping out is one that I cannot replace and that is why I will be going back and volunteering more. One such feeling I got was when I was able to successfully communicate with a Turkish women named