Community ServiceBy

Kevin O’Brien

What is Community Service?A service performed to benefit the public.I really enjoyed community service because it

made me feel like I was benefiting a lot of people.

I did eighteen hours of community service this semester

I did a total of seven services for the community just this semester

Easter Egg HuntMy fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and a

local sorority, Chi Omega decided that we would put on an Easter Egg hunt for little kids around the Valdosta area.

We bought over four- hundred plastic Easter eggs and five pounds of candy to fill the Easter Eggs with

We hid all four hundred eggs and then let the kids go and find all of them!

Relay for lifeRelay for life was a great

experienceIt was the third time I

have participated in it and it is great to see everyone out there supporting the cause against cancer

Two of my brother’s have beaten cancer.

It was great to walk with them for the cause that they overcame!

LuminariesEveryone could by

luminaries and dedicate them

I bought a luminary for my best friend’s mom who had breast cancer

It was great to see how the walkway was lined with so many luminaries

Camping for CancerEvery year my fraternity does an event called

camping for cancer.We have to active brother’s who both had

cancer so it is a very meaningful event we do.We all camp out in our front yard with our

tents and sit around a fire and collect empty cans to donate

Valdosta Water PlantValdosta got an incredible amount of rain

early in AprilMy fraternity was just hanging out when we

got a phone call saying that the power plant needed volunteers to build a dam to protect the plant

My entire fraternity went out there and built the dam to prevent the plant from damage

We used large amounts of dirt to create the dam and sand bags!

Blood DriveI had never donated blood before and my

fraternity brother, Lawrence Claggett, told me I should go and donate blood with him

I went and donated one pint of blood, it was a very weird feeling

I got my blood donors card in the mail and I was an A positive

I was told my blood saved three lives!

Donated ClothesNormally every winter my family and I gather

clothes and donate them directly to the homeless in downtown Atlanta, this winter I was not able to do so

I went through my closet at school and pulled out clothes that I had that I very wear such as Lacoste shirts and shorts and Polo shirts

I donated them to the Good Will bin over near Hollywood Videos.

Paul Burnette ScholarshipA brother of the Georgia Sigma chapter of

Sigma Alpha Epsilon died in a car accident in 1990.

In his memory a scholarship soccer tournament was started.

I donated $50 dollars to this scholarshipThe soccer tournament will be held May 2nd,

2009.

ConclusionIn conclusion I took part in a lot of

community service activities.I felt very good knowing I was benifiting the

community by giving back.It got stressful balancing all of my

schoolwork and extra curricular activities with my community service

I learned that I want to continue giving back further on after this class.