Voluntary Service
Virtual (online) Alternatives:
Instead of going out into the community and offering your time in a face-to-face setting you are permitted to choose options from home. Check out this link for more information: https://dukeofed.com.au/top-15-ways-to-volunteer-from-home-in-australia/
A few things to remember .. you can only log on average 1 hour per week. OR
2 hours every 2 weeks. OR 4 hours every 4 weeks etc.
This means, you can't just volunteer for 1 weekend to accrue all your hours ... you should be showing a continued commitment.
Examples of Service Goals:
Tutoring/ help to others: I am going to be helping out in the primary by listening to year 5 students read and helping them develop their higher reading skills. I have received training on this. When helping the students, I will ask knowledge, comprehension and application questions to the struggling students and I will ask analysis, synthesis and evaluation questions to the higher level students. Through this I will aid the students' reading and comprehension skills. I’ll be able to achieve my goal by going to an hour a week (3 or 4 times a week to complete an hour ). I will know I achieved this goal if the teacher is satisfied by the progress the children are making and indicates this on the assessor's report.
Mentoring/ Coaching: My aim is to help the under‐8's improve their footballing ability, including teamwork, attacking and defending and to build relationships with the young children playing at the club by March 2016. In order to do this I will attend the club and work with the kids once every week.
Environmental/ Working a Clean‐up Campaign: I will join the school's environmental club . I am a beginner and I am going to collect all of the bottles and papers from the first two floors of block C in my school .Then , I will add them to the recycling bins (I will squash the bottles first so that they take up less space ) After adding the bottles to the recycling bins, the recycling company will collect them(the actual recycling is not my duty ). My assessor will be Ms. Armstrong . I will provide a minimum of 6 photos and 1 video as evidence.
Food bank/ Soup kitchen: My goal is to help at the soup kitchen in my town, to volunteer my time to help those less fortunate than myself. To start with I’ll help preparing the food in the kitchen, but by the end of three months I would like to have grown in confidence in working in the soup kitchen to progress to serving the food and interacting with the vulnerable people.
