Volunteering in New York City
There are so many ways to engage with life in New York City! I contribute to my community by volunteering as a youth soccer coach for the West Side Soccer League. I coach three teams every weekend, as well as tournament teams on holiday weekends. Our league -- which is entirely volunteer organized and run -- includes over 4000 (+/-) players organized into 800 (+/-) teams, with 400 (+/-) games played each weekend on fields throughout the city.
I also volunteer at my children's school, Public School 87. My favorite volunteering activity of all is "Everybody Reads Week," when the school's library committee invites authors who live in the neighborhood to come to school to read and discuss their work with the children. I read Bangando stories to the children, and together we discuss the moral lessons that Bangando elders are teaching, across time and space, to New York City kids.
As our children get older, I plan to expand our family's volunteering to include the homeless shelter in our neighborhood.
There are so many ways to engage with life in New York City! I contribute to my community by volunteering as a youth soccer coach for the West Side Soccer League. I coach three teams every weekend, as well as tournament teams on holiday weekends. Our league -- which is entirely volunteer organized and run -- includes over 4000 (+/-) players organized into 800 (+/-) teams, with 400 (+/-) games played each weekend on fields throughout the city.
I also volunteer at my children's school, Public School 87. My favorite volunteering activity of all is "Everybody Reads Week," when the school's library committee invites authors who live in the neighborhood to come to school to read and discuss their work with the children. I read Bangando stories to the children, and together we discuss the moral lessons that Bangando elders are teaching, across time and space, to New York City kids.
As our children get older, I plan to expand our family's volunteering to include the homeless shelter in our neighborhood.