Volunteership Before Hand

When I first heard about volunteer-ship I didn't like the fact that we have to do something like internship except on our own time. Anyways that's neither here nor there, but I'm planning to doing my volunteer-ship at an orphanage near Alec's house. For now, we've tried calling them but had no success, but I thinking I should start look else where for an internship.I guess the work I invision my self doing is help either animals at the human society or helping children, but in know for sure that I will not be working with plants or any thing the would required hard labor.