On Tuesday 26th of June Piwakawaka Syndicate went out on a day of volunteering (Helping Hands Day).It was apart of our school wide topic Citizenship and we were doing it so that we were giving something back to the community.
Some of us chose to go to a Refugee centre, Old folks home or the BMX track but some of us organised our own place to go to such as a Kindergarten or a school or anything else that you could think of that is volunteering work.
At the BMX track people would have planted trees and do gardening there but it was raining so they had to stay at school and learn about Refugees.
At an Old Folks home people cleaned windows, served morning tea and read books to them and other things that was helpful for them.
At the Refugee centre people listened to their stories about how and why they came to New Zealand and helped around the place when needed.The people who went to the Refugee Centre did a sausage sizzle to fund-raise for the Refugee centre too.
And if you organised your own place you just did whatever you needed to do that was helpful and that was giving something back to the community.
Over all it was a fun experience and was really worth while.
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