Wednesday, 24 September 2014

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning – Exercise #4

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What volunteer roles do the following people have?


Name
Job
1
John McArthur
-          Admin & Information Volunteer
-          Esteem and confidences
2
Samarah Hashmi
-          Survey Analyst Volunteer, European and International Unit
-          provided  with extremely valuable work experience, and enabled  to enhance her skills
3
Oliver Stannard
-          copywriter volunteer, Internal Communications Team
-          enjoying the different experience
4
Stanley Parker
-           Market Drayton shop volunteer
-          less fortunate and volunteering seemed the obvious choice
5
Camilla Williamson
-          Non given
-          interesting and extremely useful

Look again at these people and their jobs. What can you say about volunteering from the information in your chart?


-          They are off all ages, and all have a good experiences and fun.


LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning – Exercise #3

Listen again and see if you can work out the answers to these questions about the interview:

1.                  How old were the Games volunteers? All ages
2.                  During the Games, the volunteers had a special title. What was this special title? Games maker
3.                  Complete this quote from David… “… for a moment in time volunteering had a profile and an image that they fully deserve but don’t always get.”
4.                  David mentions that some of the volunteers are semi-retired. What does this mean? Working and having free time
5.                  Zoe worked in Events Services. Where was this located? Event services in Olympic stadium  
6.                  How does she describe the experience of volunteering for the Olympics and Paralympics? Fantastic
7.                  What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?
a.       Fun
b.      Satisfaction
c.       Meet new people
d.      Improve confidant
8.                  Why does David feel that volunteering in the community is so important?
-          Organization that support volunteering community.
-          Important for all the society.