I believe people volunteer because first of all they want to give back to their
community.The type of support I’ve seen in these volunteers is incredible. The range is
everything from just pitching in to transport materials or even food from point A to point
B and to the other side of the spectrum which is putting on gloves and masks grabbing
shovels and pumping out cellars and throwing the mud out of people’s houses, just helping
your next door neighbor.I volunteer for all my friends and family in Schoharie County and
my home residence.I volunteer because I was born and raised here my childhood friends and
family live here and my in-laws lost their farm here.I volunteered to help the community
and it makes me feel like I’m doing good for everyone.I volunteer because this is my
hometown these are my friends, my family people I work with people I work with and it’s an
act of kindness.I love to volunteer for my community because I love my community and the
people in it.I donated to the Schoharie flood victims my play-doo and all my race tracks and
toys that I had and I don’t use anymore and I donated all my clothes that are too small.
I volunteer because it’ one way I can look after folks in the community who are less fortunate
than myself. I get to go home tonight and sleep in my own bed and these folks have to
take care of this for the rest of their lives. Hi my name is Winter, I’m a Alisa, I’m Ileana,
I’m Maddy, I’m Megan and I’m Jamie and we volunteered because this is just our community
everyone is family and we all grew up here and so this is what we have to do, it’s just
we love everyone here and we have to rebuild I guess and cleanup.I believe the communities
gratitude it is heartfelt it is beyond question as far out going to all these
volunteers there’re not even words to express how much we appreciate as a community all this
volunteers all these volunteers that are coming and helping us out in our time of
need and I hope in the future I know we are going to need volunteers for the
next four to eight weeks.