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Old 01-12-2006, 09:19 AM   #33 (permalink)
maleficent
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Originally Posted by abaya
Unfortunately, I never saw many guys volunteering when I did it in college. Too bad for them!
When I lived in NYC - there used to be a ton of guys that volunteered with the Big Brothers program... (I did big sisters but it was a combined program) While the real deal is to be a pal to a kid in need- BB/BS used to have regular mixers for the Bigs (and the littles too) where we could meet each other and share horror stories and funny stories - I am sooo not a mixer type of person but these events were fun.. and i met a lot of really good people.. .(and BB/BS does a background check on you -- so you know you're meeting fairly decent people )
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