Chandler Unified School District high school students are finding it difficult to volunteer during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

During the COVID pandemic, it is difficult for students to go out and volunteer while facing the risk of bringing the virus home to their family. Volunteering is vital learning and high school students are unable to volunteer. Places that people would usually volunteer want to ensure the health and safety of their existing workers and prefer not to bring in extra people to work. Because of this, it is difficult for students to find places to take them for volunteering. Both students and companies are finding volunteering during the COVID pandemic difficult. 

With the arrival of the COVID vaccine, many high school students were able to volunteer in handing out vaccines. This opportunity was a fun experience for the students as well as a volunteering opportunity during the COVID pandemic which students were unable to find. “The vaccine was honestly one of the most fun times I’ve had volunteering or not in my whole life,” Moira MacCatherin, Perry High school student, said. “It was absolutely incredible. The cars, the people in them, were crying because they were so excited to receive this vaccine.” MacCatherin and many other students across CUSD benefited greatly from the arrival of the vaccine in many ways.