Volunteers needed!
The Association For Independent Living (AFIL) of Dallas, Texas is a 501(3)(C) registered organization and as such operates with the help and dedication of a few essential volunteers.
AFIL needs your help. You can volunteer your time to do a wide variety of things to help us.
Can you spend an evening with our residents, helping them to do a craft activity or help us by driving to an arts or sports event, or perhaps just by being here to help out? It won't take too much from you but can be very rewarding.
Why volunteer?
Why should you help?
The reality is that each person's motivations for giving
(and being a volunteer is a form of giving) will be unique, but
will often be a combination of at least some of the following:- Altruism – volunteering for the benefit of others.
- Quality of life — serving community because doing service makes ones own life better — is perhaps the most significant motivation for volunteering.
- Giving Back — many people have in some way benefited from the work of an organization, or more generally, and volunteer to give back.
- A sense of duty — some see participation in community as a responsibility that comes with citizenship.
- Financial — Being motivated by finances is not generally included within the definition of volunteering. So don't expect to be paid!
- Career Experience — Volunteering offers experiences that can add to career prospects and many employers value volunteering experience.
- Social Reasons — Volunteering is a good way to meet a lot of different people from other walks of life and it is often easy to make new friends.
Did you know that you probably posess a unique skill that either some of our residents can learn to also use or that the AFIL organization itself can use?
What kinds of skills?
Anything!
Everything!
AFIL residents must be capable of doing so much to move on with their lives, so that they can achieve the aim of AFIL - to move towards that goal of being fully independent.
Lets be realistic too... We know that not everyone is going to achieve this objective in double quick time.
You know what?
Just one afternoon or evening from you and that can move our residents forward towards that goal... Please help.