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Larry is an aspiring pre-med student at an undergraduate university. As a pre-med student, he has an extremely busy schedule with a full courseload of classes as well as labwork. Larry hopes to find weekly health-related community-service opportunities that will fit into his busy schedule. He often has to read through hundreds of emails to find a health-related community service opportunity for the semester and must repeat his search every new semester due to schedule changes. The biggest problem is that older postings are difficult to recover since they are buried under thousands of more recent listings.*
*Unfortunately, many of the health-related opportunities fail to specify the exact job that he would be doing with the hospital, which is drastically affects the enjoyability of Larry’s community service experience.

Soup kitchen coordinator

text about that womanOlga is an organizer of a soup kitchen in Harvard Square. She collaborates with a local church to encourage people to help serve food to the needy. She has to deal with people of all ages, from young to old. She observed that involving a tight group of people from church as well as a few outsiders, the people that frequent the soup kitchen as volunteers are often the same people. The people that cycle in and out of the program are typically college students looking for one-time service chances. She noted that the way most people found out about her soup kitchen was through word of mouth, typically from a college student who was involved at the church that was spearheading the initiative. In an effort to get more people involved, she remarked that being able to market the service to more people would cause results two-fold. More people in the local area could find something nearby to do that they otherwise would never hear about, and the earlier you get people exposed to volunteering, the more likely they are likely to do it later on. She seemed to believe strongly in encouraging college-aged kids to engage in service.

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