2903 community service CJC 2014

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning

Week 4

Looking at volunteering in different spheres of society.

During the summer of 2012 the Olympic Games were held in London. David Moorcroft is a former athlete. At one point he held the world record for the 5,000 metres. David can be heard discussing the importance of volunteering the Olympic Games.

Zoe Hall is a lady who was one of the volunteers at the Games. She talks about the event and how important it was at the time as well as how much it has inspired her to continue working as a volunteer.

This link is about half way down the page.

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/

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? Game makers

3.                  Complete this quote from David… “… for a moment in time volunteering had a Profile and an Image that they fully Disserved but don’t always get.”

4.                  David mentions that some of the volunteers are semi-retired. What does this mean?  Half retired

5.                  Zoe worked in Events Services. Where was this located?

                    Olympic stadium

6.                  How does she describe the experience of volunteering for the Olympics and Paralympics? Best experience on her life

7.                  What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?

a.       Fun

b.      Confident

c.       Meeting new people

d.      Satisfaction

8.                  Why does David feel that volunteering in the community is so important?

         Help the people organize for hall ages and also help countries and he was                     proud for this experience  

 This page is also from AGE UK.

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/volunteers-week/

What volunteer roles do the following people have?

	Name	Job
1	John McArthur	Admin and information
2	Samarah Hashmi	Survey analyst volunteer
3	Oliver Stannard	Copy writer volunteer
4	Stanley Parker	Market Dayton shop volunteer
5	Camilla Williamson	Volunteer parliamentary assistant

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

The volunteer it’s not stop in determent age and its show the different in ages also when you volunteer you got an experience of the life