Volunteer Activity Reflection
After your volunteer experience is concluded, write a two-page reflection on your experiences.
The reflection should include the dates and hours you volunteered and the name(s) of the contact person or persons you worked with from the organization.
Explain what you did for your volunteer activity. Be sure to address all of the 8 following questions:
- What did you learn about yourself, about the world, or about public or global health?
- What people were you serving?
- Identify (or create) a strategic objective and an intermediate indicator for the place you volunteered.
- Did you see or experience anything unexpected? Explain in detail.
- Was there some specific aspect of your experience that you found especially helpful?
- What cross-cultural aspect was present in your volunteer work? Consider the content presented in
- When Helping Hurts by Corbett & Fikkert when answering this question.
- How will this volunteer activity have an impact on your life-long learning, professional practice, and future work?
- Would you volunteer again? Explain your answer.