This weekend Rick and I donated a few hours as part of Disney's Give a Day Get a Day Program. There were tons of volunteer opportunities to choose from and initially I was hoping for something really cool like helping to build homes with habitat for humanity. It is after all in the commercial you see on tv and gives a sort of "glamorous" image to volunteering. But instead we spent our day helping to prepare the grounds for the annual rodeo in April.
The people that normally prepare for the rodeo are all volunteers. They don't get paid for any of the work they do there, which is a lot! Their main goal as a group is to give back to the youth of the community. They use those grounds for various things and all of the money they make goes to picking up the costs for new band supplies, FFA supplies, and sports for the local schools.
It was a rainy, yucky day out so they had to find projects for us to do that were mostly inside or at least sheltered from the rain. Rick and I hosed of and cleaned fluorescent light covers, cleaned out cabinets and scrubbed garbage cans. It was pretty thankless work. But sometimes that honestly is the most important. It's a good feeling to know you're making a difference, no matter how big or small the impact.
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