Volunteerism is defined as actively seeking opportunities to help others in need and making continuing commitments to provide assistance over extended periods of time, often at personal cost. While volunteers are commonly seen as noble and selfless, the author argues they also seek something in return for their efforts, such as self-satisfaction or a way to pass time. Regardless of differing beliefs about volunteerism's motivations, it is beneficial to society and needed to build strong communities.
Volunteerism is defined as actively seeking opportunities to help others in need and making continuing commitments to provide assistance over extended periods of time, often at personal cost. While volunteers are commonly seen as noble and selfless, the author argues they also seek something in return for their efforts, such as self-satisfaction or a way to pass time. Regardless of differing beliefs about volunteerism's motivations, it is beneficial to society and needed to build strong communities.
Volunteerism is defined as actively seeking opportunities to help others in need and making continuing commitments to provide assistance over extended periods of time, often at personal cost. While volunteers are commonly seen as noble and selfless, the author argues they also seek something in return for their efforts, such as self-satisfaction or a way to pass time. Regardless of differing beliefs about volunteerism's motivations, it is beneficial to society and needed to build strong communities.
Volunteerism is defined as actively seeking opportunities to help others in need and making continuing commitments to provide assistance over extended periods of time, often at personal cost. While volunteers are commonly seen as noble and selfless, the author argues they also seek something in return for their efforts, such as self-satisfaction or a way to pass time. Regardless of differing beliefs about volunteerism's motivations, it is beneficial to society and needed to build strong communities.
Since we are in elementary grade, we are already taught
the importance of volunteering and how it solves many problems in society. We hear the word volunteerism a lot and how it helps others and how it can also be helpful to ourselves, but what is the real meaning of volunteerism?
In a book by James D. Wright, he stated that
Volunteerism is a form of helping in which people actively seek out opportunities to assist others in need, make considerable and continuing commitments to provide assistance, and sustain these commitments over extended periods of time, often at considerable personal cost. For example, unlike the helping that occurs spontaneously in response to emergencies, volunteers typically seek out opportunities to help. And majority of the people thinks about kindness, compassion, zeal, necessity, irresistibility, magnanimity, angels, lifesavers, and heroes, those are few terms that come to peoples mind when talking about volunteers. While I personally think that volunteers aren’t that noble and selfless. Like most of us, they also seek something in return for their efforts. It may just be for their own self-satisfaction, to make themselves believe that they are better than others, or to just pass time. Whatever it may be, volunteerism isn’t about not expecting anything in return, it’s just not asking for something tangible like money.
Beliefs about volunteerism may be different, but one thing
is for sure, it is beneficial for the society and is needed in order to build a strong foundation of a community.