Community Service Research Paper

I have been involved with Girl Scouts for 8 years and through that experience, community service and many hours spent volunteering have become very meaningful to my life as well as taught me many things that I will use throughout my life. I have volunteered countless hours, but out of all of the work I have done, my Girl Scout awareness project has had the greatest impact not only on the community, but on myself as well. For my project, I had hoped to bring reckless and drunk driving awareness to the community to help out the parents who have lost children themselves to this issue, and to show teens that getting behind the wheel intoxicated can be extremely hazardous. Being a teenager myself and witnessing fellow classmates pass away due to this issue, it breaks my heart to know that the cause of their death was a couple of alcoholic beverages. My project was to show students the risk of their decisions. At another local Girl Scout meeting around our community, myself and three others attended as guest speakers to present our project and to help spread awareness. The four of us had worked immeasurable hours on our presentation with facts, videos, pictures and props to show our community just how dangerous it truly is to drive intoxicated. After preparing our speeches and deciding how we were going to present the project, we were quick to
Within a few days, we got various thank you letters and additional ideas to help further our project. We still had the troops that we presented our projects to contacting us with additional questions. The booklet we constructed to inform visitors of the many risks of drunk driving still remains with the troops. As we are all now senior Girl Scouts, we still continue to further the understanding of driving under the influence in our