“Volunteering (志愿服务) makes you look at the world differently. You see how little things can change a person’s life for the better, which makes everyone a better person,” Mason, a volunteer said. National Volunteer Week started in 1974 and is held every April. It is a time to ...
and we would be sharing with the other churches and families. Soon after, we went to the dining building to get an overview of how our day would be like. At 5 am, we would do 1 hour of field work before the sun came up. Then, we would work in 4 shifts of 2 ...
The boy is Isaac. When he knows that there is not a food bank (银行) near his home, he wants to start one with his hands. So Isaac puts food and drink in a small box in front of his house. Isaac starts his food bank to help hungry people. ...
There is nothing going on around here so we have nothing to do, except yesterday, the Archbishop took us to Bir’am, the village in the north of Israel where he was born and lived until 1948 when all the village families were forcible removed by Zionist soldiers and later, Christmas of ...
To get you started, here are some of the larger charities in Tokyo who welcome volunteers without requiring Japanese. 1. Second Harvest Japan: A national foodbank Photo by istock.com/AnnaRolandi While foodbanks are on an incredible rise in many countries, they remain very much low-key in ...
at the bar and we were all looking at it with crooked necks and I remember just watching this thing and being like, I have to go there. I applied and I remember vividly, thinking, there’s no way Charlie (Davis, SkatePal founder and executive director) is gonna accept me, I’m not...
At a time when so much seems wrong in the world, for me at least, it feels so important and fills my heart to do something that seems so undeniably right, escapes the daily divisiveness of life in this country and simply focuses on compassion and humanity. When it’s over, I don’...