Benefits of Community Service

Community service is unpaid work done for the benefit and improvement of the community.

For an RLSH, doing the occasional community service work in a publicly visual way can lead to positive press.  The caveat here is that the local press will tut the effort as being childish or silly, until you do it enough.  With enough effort, the community will start to respect your service.

Community service is pretty varied, but here is a general list that you can probably find in your local community:

• Soup Kitchen Assistance

• Food Bank box packing

• United Way assistance

• Working with children at a library

• Park and cemetery clean up/maintenance

• Liter patrol

• Shoveling snow

• Assisting elderly

• Homeless outreach

When I met up with Zetaman and some others (that was a long time ago), he made efforts with homeless outreach by passing out necessity bags. These bags often had tampons, condoms, hand sanitizer, packaged food, bottles of water, bandaids, etc. The whole group joined in to pass these things out to Seattle's downtown homeless while we went on a group patrol.