Service opportunities - Brigham Young University-Hawaii Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
There are people who are struggling with their English and need to get better at practicing, and so you can actually go and sit around tables at the Aloha Center, which is like their main hangout area, and just practice English using normal conversations so that they can get in the practice of using their foods and their verbs, nouns, pronouns, all of that, and acclimate to the culture here. Another way to serve is doing the AINA program at the elementary school, teaching kids about nutrition. It's a free class, and it's a great way to serve.
Video 2 Transcript
There's a lot of service opportunities here at BUE Hawaii. You just have to ask. There's a lot of service opportunities from Seasiders, different opportunities from the chapters, and all of these has to do not only in the community, but there's also opportunities that we go out of the community. For example, at Koolau Ranch, we go there sometimes, and even at Waimea, we go there as well. Mostly cleaning and stuff like that. We also assist elderly people with their grocery shoppings, and also mowing the lawn, weeding the grass, and beach cleaning. Beach cleaning is really fun because not only you get to clean at the beach, but you also get to swim. It's fun. And you just have to have fun with it because those are some of the projects or service projects that encourages us to get to know other students as well, and some of our faculty and staff members.
Video 3 Transcript
There are so many service opportunities on the island of Oahu, especially around Laie. Many of them can be organized and accessed through BYUH. You just have to go to the McKay Center and there are lots of organized service opportunities that happen through campus. I spent a lot of time helping with beach cleanup when I was there. Unfortunately, it is a big issue and not just beach cleanup, but even just cleaning up trash just around the town of Laie and around the temple. That's just one area of service that is an opportunity, but there's lots available, including helping with locals and helping with the homeless situation is also a really good service opportunity. And like I said, you can check through the McKay Center for those opportunities.
Video 4 Transcript
There's always a clean up beach sometime during the semester or maybe multiple ones because the wars organized that as an activity because there's a service, I think a service committee in the school that's responsible for that. For me personally, cleaning at the beach was always my favorite just because it just shows that you take care of the land. That's something that it's very common in Hawaii or in the Hawaiian culture that you take care of the land and the land takes care of you. So I think with this service opportunity, you're also incorporating the culture of the place where you're living as well.
Video 5 Transcript
I think anytime you are surrounded by an environment of Christ-centered people, the opportunities to serve are vast. And the great thing, I think, about BYU-Hawaii is that there are people coming together from all over the world. And so there are unique ways to serve and to help, to lift and to love. And if you are willing to have eyes to see and ears to hear, and a heart that can feel, you can learn to serve people in a way that matters to them. And I think that's the coolest part. There are so many organizations full of service. And I remember I went and helped clean up a beach once with Jack Johnson and Helping Hands. And I just think that the opportunity to serve and to love is everywhere. And being very involved in the Lord is a great way to do that as well.
