SIGNIFICANT BENEFITS OF VOLUNTEERING WITH A2Z MENTORING PROGRAM:
Gain hands on teaching experience in an innovative education program, including:
- Making a difference in someone else's life
- Gaining a world of valuable experience
- Serving as a mentor, role model, and teacher
- Learning about themselves
- Giving back to the community and contributing to the future
- Developing a community spirit and a giving attitude
- Feeling empowered to be an active citizen
- Increasing their ability to handle more responsibility and personal growth
- Making new friends
- Developing problem-solving abilities
- Learning teaching skills and other new skills
- Gaining leadership experience
- Getting an opportunity to work with a diverse group of students
- An opportunity to learn about different cultures and languages
- High school students volunteering as mentors, receive community service hours which help them in their future academic progress
- Having fun
Aim For A 2 Z Inc.'s (A2Z Mentoring Program) first volunteers were competent individuals of all ages and backgrounds. Our current mentors include high school students, college students, professionals, business people, social workers, homemakers, retired teachers and professors. The only requirements are that the volunteers be caring, interested, willing and committed to the student and the concept that positive change is a reachable goal. By giving one and one-half hours per week of their time, volunteers help prepare youth for their eventual success in school and society.
The main purpose of the A2Z Mentoring Program is to raise literacy levels and improve study skills in Math, Science and English reading and writing in our students. The long-term goal of our program is to impact more lives by going beyond our immediate borders. This process will lead to the creation of a diverse group of leaders from amongst our students and volunteers.
A2Z program believes that every student is entitled to receive the necessary help that will enable that individual student to build adequate academic and social skills to succeed in life.
