Laurel and I are trying to put together a Facebook page for Project Angel Heart and I'm trying to gather some volunteer testimonials. They are pretty simple, here's mine:
As a volunteer for Project Angel Heart, I have delivered many meals to people throughout the Denver metro area. I haven't tried the food yet, but I am always told how good it tastes. The clients are so grateful for the food that they receive that you can really tell that it makes a huge difference in their lives. I have had nothing but good experiences with Project Angel Heart.
If you guys could write a testimonial about your experiences and maybe make it a little more specific than mine, that would be great. Thanks for the help.
11 comments:
"Volunteering with Project Angel Heart has been simply a pleasure: I have had a wonderful opportunity to meet a few of PAH’s clients and devoted volunteers during both food preparation shifts in the kitchen and food delivery shifts in the Denver metro area. I have come to a new understanding of the tremendous impact that PAH’s services have in clients’ lives; my experience with the organization was both incredibly humbling and inspiring."
“My experiences with Project Angel Heart have been both interesting and awe-inspiring. I had no idea how fundamental the actions of PAH’s workers and volunteers are to the lives of so many people. Giving food seems like such a simple act but my encounter with PAH has shown me the true strength of that gesture.”
"I thoroughly enjoyed my time spent with Project Angel Heart. In the midst of conversation with dedicated volunteers, while dicing onions, wrapping up cookies, or ladling soup, it was hard to remember that I was also doing community service. But the encounters with grateful clients helped to put into perspective the importance of what those moments spent in light-hearted cooperation are all about."
"Somewhere between taking meals to clients, chopping vegetables, and distributing prepared meals into trays, I learned what Project Angel Heart is all about. It's about small milestones, like a client gaining a pound. It's about seemingly unimportant additions that make all the difference, like flowers drawn on a paper bag. It's about simple encounters, like chatting with fellow volunteers about their families. Through my experiences at Project Angel Heart I learned that it's the details that do the most good."
"Trial #2 with the Tuesday morning veteran shift was much better than the first. Being somewhat aware of the ropes, I grabbed an apron, washed up, and headed to a place alongside the main metal island where the huge tubs of ingredients sat in their respective positions. This time I was what one could call a “noodle-tonger”, and although my thumbs were sore almost immediately, the dull numb that followed was almost instantaneous. To my right sat Bill. He was short and stooped even lower when perched on his stool. He scooped and flattened the mixed vegetables before passing the paper trays my way. Boy, was he a talker. All kinds of things about his wife; how she is 85 and just recently came home with acrylic nails that were a soft pink color and of course when he didn’t immediately notice this new addition to his wife’s appearance so she got mad because the reason she had gotten them in the first place was so that she would stop chewing her thumb nails which is something she does when she is nervous, but seriously, at 85 years old what is the likelihood that anything could kill a habit. I agreed with him. Across the counter from me and to the right was a high school senior named Sarah. She was extremely honest about the fact that she had no idea what was going to happen once she graduated. Now when I was going through my senior year, I was basically giving myself weekly subdural hematomas by stressing so much on college and scholarship applications. But in the same breath it would have been much scarier in my mind to have no plan at all. Bill talked to the two of us, asked us questions, and poked fun. He was great."
"I personally enjoyed meal delivery shifts much more than the meal preparation shift, because it put us in contact with the people we were helping. We got the opportunity to put faces to the fraction of humanity we were chopping carrots and scooping soup for. I am truly grateful that I got to participate in a meal delivery as my last shift at Project Angel Heart. Retrospectively, I feel that I needed this experience to remind me that reading about hardship does not necessarily make you knowledgeable, nor does it prepare you to face that hardship head on. As enlightened or holier-than-thou as we may feel, there is very little we can do to prepare ourselves for such an experience. Looking back, I almost think I prefer it this way."
Volunteering with Project Angel Heart has afforded me a great opportunity to interact in the Denver community and build connections with people who genuinely care and are willing to sacrifice their time for those who are facing difficult times. If "all we need is love", Project Angel Heart is doing their part to spread that love to households across the Denver-metro area. I am honored and would like to thank Project Angel Heart for the opportunity to aid them in that goal.
"Project Angel Heart is an organization that is truely organized! I loved working with such a fun group of people in PAH's immaculate kitchen, regardless of weather I was chopping onions or accidentally chopping my thumb (ouch!)Preparing and delivering meals was a worthwhile experience and a highly satesfying way to make a difference in the community.
To be able to save a life with the simple act of delivering a frozen meal or peeling carrots for a couple of hours is an amazing feeling. My work with Project Angel Heart has allowed me to step outside myself and realize that with a little sacrifice and hard work, we can all make a difference in someone's life. Plus, the meals I helped to prepare looked delicious - what more can you ask?
Project Angel Heart provides an invaluable service to the Denver metro are through the delivery of nutritious frozen meals to terminally ill patients. I have volunteered with the organization on several instances and had nothing but fun. The other volunteers are cheerful and glad of the opportunity to help and the patients are thrilled to be supported by the organization in such a vital way. The atmosphere that surrounds all the aspects of Project Angel Heart is one of gratitude and excitement, making contact with the organization truly beneficial to anyone.
In most cases it seems that with community service you never get to interact with the clients anymore. Not so with Project Angel Heart. Here, not only do you impact their lives by cooking tasty food for them, you also get to deliver it to them and have face-to-face interaction with them. And in the end, isn't helping our community about the relationships we have with each other?
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