Youth Volunteerism: A Corporate Tool for Social Transformation

Youth volunteerism is a very best way for positive youth development. By this, youth are given
more time to exercise their skills and resources in a more valuable activity. This also promotes
youth involvement in the advancing of social awareness among them. Positive youth
involvement equals to a more intellectual, inclusive and sustainably developed society.

Youth volunteerism is now an emerging trend among the student leaders who want to make
various impacts in the community. Student leaders and youth community volunteers pioneer
different kinds of programs, advocacies and the likes. These can be about the environment,
support for out-of-school youth, extending hands to the homeless, socio-entrepreneurial projects,
and a lot a more. These small steps taken by the youth of today become the source of high hopes
that our nation will be a better place to live in the near future.

Of course, this kind of projects needs support of different forms from the other sectors in the
society. One of which is the private sector. Corporations, to be specific, can provide channels for
the realization of these ideas. These youths actions, in return, can be also of help in achieving
the corporations vision to the society. Most of the corporations want to make a remarkable
impact for the betterment of the society where it belongs. And through the collaborative efforts
of the youth volunteers and the corporations, a great social transformation can be attained in
time.

Big corporations, such as the Aboitiz Group, spearhead leadership and business summits and
conventions which aim is to develop students who will soon make a strong influence in the
society. These corporate programs can stimulate a burning passion in the hearts of the youth.
With all the vexations brought by the era of high-end technology, the youth of today needs a tap
from the back and a pinch in the guts to pursue the changes they envision for the nation. What
the youth needs today is an assurance that the youth of the previous generations are still ready to
fulfill their duty to the society by pushing todays generation for betterment of the future men of
this country.

With corporations ready to positively contribute to the sustainable transformation of the country
as a fuel and the youths deep desire to change the society as a burning flame, this country will
undoubtedly be great in all aspect and soon be a niche of selfless but nation-loving citizens.