Quotes from Volunteers
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Selected quotes for Baltimore Experience Corps presentation to the Baltimore Mayor's Office.

I.  From the 2003 end-of-the-year survey

Question: What did you like most about working with the children?

(the following are answers about the children)

“Some give you a warm welcome, especially, when they don’t see you for a week.  It shows that they miss you.”

            Madge Wilson

(answers about the relationship between the children and the volunteer)

“Showing them new things and different ways of doing the old things.”

            Norman Thomas

(answers about benefit to the volunteer)

 “It gives me a chance to exercise my brain.”

            Mae Carter

II.    From the end-of-the-year survey 2002

Question: What did you like most about working with the children?

(the following are answers about the children)

“They love to learn and they love you for being there for them.”

            Asberry Lotts

(answers about the relationship between the children and the volunteer)

“It was very rewarding experience to se them learning new things and new methods.  it was a learning experience for me too.”

            Eloise Collins

(answers about benefit for the volunteer)

“It made me more alert.  In the lessons, I left as if I was a student again and I was learning along with them.”

            Earline V. Smiley