Environmental volunteering

question about the benefits of volunteering to the volunteer. All up, one of the key benefits of volunteering (I add my own experience here!) is adding purpose to one's life, and/or doing something meaningful or useful. Other benefits include longevity, lower blood pressure, less stress, a greater appreciation of time, perspective, and better self esteem. Please find my deep dive below. HEALTH BENEFITS Live longer: Over 40 international studies confirm that volunteering can add years to your life

UNDERSTANDING VOLUNTEER WORK Volunteering is when a person out of his own will spends his time and makes an effort to help people in his community and has no expectation of a reward in return. It also involves several individuals pulling their resources together for a cause. Volunteering can be done individually, or by groups of people who come together to form what is known as Non Profit Organizations. Volunteering has recognition all over the world for the positive impact it has on both the volunteer

a higher education while continuing my work of interacting with individuals and leaders to build, learn, and explore our world. The Easter Basket Project is one of my favorite community service projects I have ever participated in. I started volunteering with the program, when I was just ten years old. Every year since then, I have helped assemble 800 Easter baskets for a domestic violence outreach program and homeless women and children in my local community. The project started in a basement

“Volunteers are not paid; not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.” - Sherry Anderson (Volunteering Quotes: Finest Quotes). On average, when people think about community service, they assume that volunteering is just ‘hours we need to be able to graduate’ and that is it. Community service is more than just hours; community service is based on the acts performed by someone with the purpose of helping or bringing benefits to his or her community. People frequently compare

The idea of volunteering, giving one’s free time in exchange for a warm feeling of accomplishment or satisfaction in the selfless act of doing good. Whatever our motivations, most of us have ideals we are willing to stand up for and do something about. I care for a great many things; the well-being of dogs (animals in general) and our environment are amongst the most important to me. Let us focus on the volunteer opportunities available at Orange County Animal Services as compared to those offered

Volunteer tourism- also known as “Voluntourism”- is part of a new alternative market of tourism. It consists of tourists taking part in volunteer oppportunities while they go on vacation, usually in a developing country. (Hanson Pastran 2014) While this sounds like a positive idea, and it can be, it is important to consider the efficacy (or lack thereof) of voluntourism, and the fact that it could potentially perpetuate more harm than good. It can be hard to believe that a concept like voluntourism-

aspects of service work and ways of being involved that to name a few is only grazing the surface. Whether your focus was being in a school club or student government, working with poor children, or people dying of AIDS, or if it was working for environmental justice or animal rights, if you have done it, it is important. There must be reasons we give up our time and energy, other than to have a fancy looking resume, or it would not be worth our precious time. So why do we do it? Often I ask myself

Introduction It is often joked that beginning college is like re-entering the womb. Similar to the warm, nurturing space that was home to us for the last nine months before birth, higher education aims to prepare us for life outside, in the world. Unfortunately, college also earns this association due to what some, perhaps unfairly, dub its “coddling nature,” and the tendency of students to use their schools as a place to hide from the harsher realities of the adult world. The uncomfortable truth

British Abolitionist William Wilberforce once said, “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know”. In contemporary Canadian society today, apathy is a severe problem. Canadians may be aware that there are people in the world who are starving, homeless and diseased, but don’t do anything themselves to help end global suffering. Often, this is because of a lack of understanding and experience. It is difficult for Canadians to relate to people they do not know

character. Who wouldn 't desire those attributes? If you had any type of sense, you would realize how sedulous it is to gain those traits through doing one simple thing......volunteering. Volunteering will teach you traits that can lead to phenomenal contributions for the world such as empathy. How does volunteering teach you empathy? Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within another’s frame of reference; the capacity to place oneself