Friday, December 14, 2007

My Community Hours

For my hours of community service, I went to Hispanic Affairs, in Dover. It is a nice organization, and they have many programs to help the community improve their lives. For example, they have English classes, workshops for parents and mothers, and so on. One of the main programs they run is Home Energy Assistance. I went to their offices twice, and I helped out with filing applicant's paperwork, and also filing it. Inoticed there were so many applications, and I learned a little bit of everything because people have to fill out their applications, and provide their gas, energy, and other home bills. Some people apply for government assistance to pay their bills because their doctors determined that someone in their household is at risk of getting sick if they do not get heat in the winter, or air conditioning in the summer.
It was a pleasant experience because everybody there was nice, and they made me feel welcome. My schedule did not match the times in which they had English classes, but I am going to go back, and volunteer to help out with the foreign language classes. I am problably going to go back also to help out in the Home Energy Department. It was fun to see a workplace where everybody is Hispanic. All the employees were speaking in Spanish in the offices, and they had Hispanic music on.

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