@*Sian wrote:
I am going for an interview today, to do volunteering. I hope I get it, even though it will be hard to fit in around an already busy life.
If I get the vacancy I will be working with the homeless, HIV postitive men and women, young mums, domestic violence and with people dealing with drugs and alcohol.
It makes me smile because it gives me a chance to but back into a community that are in much need of assistance.
I volunteered to help with the homeless a couple of years ago over the Christmas holidays and couldn’t believe it when I was told that I wasn’t needed as I wasn’t qualified to work unsupervised and that their insurance policy wouldn’t cover me, I was only wanting to help wash up or dish out food fgs. The experience really put me off wanting to volunteer for anything else. They didn’t even have the decency to let me know I had to keep ringing and emailing them to see what was happening and if I remember rightly it was only a day or so before Christmas Eve when they let me know.