CAS blog of L. G.

From right to left: Miglė, Ignė and I    Even though yesterday was the first day of autumn holiday I did not get to sleep in. That's because at 10 a. m. I was already near Antakalnio cemetery waiting for others to go to clean part of the graveyard. So let me tell you everything from the start.    On the set time we gathered together at agreed place and a really nice women met us. She was really talkative in a good way and kept a company for us till everyone came. After she gave us all we needed and showed what area to clean.   I will admit, it was not easy to rake the leaves and at some point it even felt like a decent arm workout. However, I was determined enough to keep working till the end. Our group of around 10 people managed to clean a middle-sized field and a quite big area of graves in less than two hours. By coincidence as I was cleaning around graves some family was visiting the grave of their relative conductor. They were so thankful t...

   The 22nd of October was not an ordinary Sunday for me as I dedicated the whole evening to volunteer work for  "Food bank" . It's a charity and support centre that collects food for the organizations that take care of poor people. Each year it arranges this kind of action of kindness during which volunteers invite people to donate food that does not expire for a long time. It includes grains, flour, sugar, oil, chocolate, canned food etc. That's exactly what volunteers, including me, were collecting.    There were several tasks you could choose from and I was appointed to hand out little calendars for each person who donated. It felt so good to thank them for their kindness! My happiness grew higher and higher with each product given. I was amazed how much we collected in less than four hours! We could hardly turn around as there was boxes full of food everywhere. You can see how wide my smile is!    To be hon...

    Not a while ago one of my classmates offered to the whole class to volunteer for a public organization "Save the Children Lithuania" ( "Gelbėkit vaikus" ). Almost everyone agreed to take part including me.     So yesterday was the day Augustė, Ugnė and I were inviting "Rimi" supermarket customers to donate part of their discount card money to socially sponsored children of Lithuania. Augustė, Ugnė and I     Within two hours we managed to talk in about twenty people to set their card settings so that at the  end of each month all or part of their saved money would be donated. It was quite a surprise for us that the first person who agreed with our offering was a foreigner. He was generous enough to give away all 100% of discount card money.    Despite the high number of people who made donations, there were much more the ones who refused to even listen us till the end. The majority of passers-...