CANNONSBURG —
Wanting to help but not knowing how: It’s the dilemma of many a would-be volunteer.
“That’s where I was in middle school,” said Hannah Irvine, a Boyd County High School sophomore. “I didn’t know what to do or who to ask.”
She joined some service clubs and eventually found outlets for her volunteer fervor — serving at the Elks lodge holiday dinners and at the Community Kitchen, and summer stints at King’s Daughters Medical Center.
When she got involved with the Kentucky Youth Council for Volunteerism and Service, she set her sights higher. While still keeping up with her own service duties, Irvine created a website listing of local agencies needing volunteers.
The site with 22 agencies lists age requirements, times volunteers are needed and contact information. Each listing is headed with a link to the agency’s website.
“I started by contacting the places I volunteer and they gave me more places to call,” she said.
Then she asked the school district to host the page and started telling her friends and fellow volunteers about it.
The 22 agencies represented on the page are just a start. “I want it to be much bigger. I have 15 more ready to add,” she said. With three full years of high school to go, she plans to keep adding to the list until she graduates.
Irvine has put into 21st century electronic form what the youth council used to do in typewritten form on paper, said council sponsor Bill Burch. That makes it an ideal tool for the middle- and high-school students it targets.
Students need volunteer opportunities as much as the agencies need them, he said. Aside from the personal satisfaction of serving others, volunteer experience is helpful in landing scholarships, awards and other academic accolades.
Teens who volunteer also find out what the work world is like, he said.
Compiling the list is only half the job, Burch said. Irvine’s next responsibility is publicizing it so other students will use it.
He said he would urge her to speak to civic clubs and school organizations, and to use social media to spread the word, in addition to talking to students in person.
The page can be accessed via a link on the home page of the Boyd County School District website, boyd.kyschools.us.
MIKE JAMES can be reached at mjames@dailyindependent.com or (606) 326-2652.
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