Service Learning

What does service-learning mean to you?
To me service learning involves helping someone else while improving your own character. Although the purpose of the mentoring program at Hand is to help the students we will be mentoring, I'm sure it will benefit us also. Service learning is always done by volunteers, but that doesn't mean the people volunteering don't get anything out of it. In my experience with service learning, the work I have done has always made me feel better about myself and leaves me with a sense of accomplishment. One time last year a bunch of friends and I built a deck for a disabled man who desperately needed one. We were out there for 8 or 9 hours, but the feeling after we had finished was indescribable. Not only had we just accomplished the task of building a deck but also had greatly helped someone in need. In this instance I think my friends and I got as much out of the service as the man we were helping. In the program at Hand, we'll be put into a situation we've never been in before. This is a challenge in itself the experience will surely benefit us.