I am putting together a Volunteer Essay that will feature success stories of volunteering. Please help me by answering the following questions.

Have you ever volunteered? What was the experience like? What did you do? How did you make an impact on the person you affected?

How can we inspire other youth to volunteer?

Please share and post your story; in which other youth will read about your stories and, hopefully, be inspired by them.

At school we had this annual day were we could make up projects like baking waffles that sort of stuff to raise money for the school's charity, it went to an orphanage and school they build in eastern part of the province. Last year I sold roses with little quotations on them like, "Friends are the family we choose for ourselves" wisdom thing's like that, on the market which was really difficult for me because I'm rather shy and I had to ask strangers on a very busy market if they would buy my roses lol but it was great and we made good money .. And the year before that I helped out with a group that had a pudding trow idea.. you could trow pudding at teachers and students *who really stood there not pictures* and I did that as well.. I was all covered in pudding lol..

I also did some charitable work in a elderly people house which was a lot of fun.. I just went there have a chat with these people who don't get a lot of visitors and whose days are really boring for the most part but anyways it was great and they're so appreciative.