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Volunteering is indeed the best thing a youth could spare time with. It doesnt
infect need walking off your work but it is all by the means of you contributing
your time for the world. You may not realise it as a great acknowledgement of
you for others but to keep in mind that a small lending of hand will make a huge
difference in the future.
Being a volunteer is about you being able to lend your time for others. It doesnt
matter if its an hour or two but the thing that matters is how you evaluate those
time you had for someone. Even a single minute could be precious to someone
out there so being a volunteer is about having the passion to ease the life of
others.
A volunteer is also of someone being sincere in doing a job without expecting
any return such as money or gift. Its all about willing to sacrifice their ability in
order to decrease the burden for others or something.
So how does volunteering makes you a leader? How much of volunteerism is
enough to be a leader? This is what we as the latest generations of youths
should be aware of in order to create a better understanding of what volunteer is
and how it is vital in the upcoming era of globalization.
According to Wikipedia, Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity
where an individual or group provides services for no financial gain. Volunteering
is also renowned for skill development, and is often intended to promote
goodness or to improve human quality of life. Volunteering may have positive
benefits for the volunteer as well as for the person or community served. It is
also intended to make contacts for possible employment. Many volunteers are
specifically trained in the areas they work, such as medicine, education, or
emergency rescue. Others serve on an as-needed basis, such as in response to a
natural disaster.
Many schools on all education levels offer service-learning, which allow the
student to serve a group through volunteering while earning educational credit.
According to Alexander Astin in the forward to Where's the Learning in Service
Learning? by Janet Eyler and Dwight E. Giles, Jr.,"...we promote more wide-spread
adoption of service-learning in higher education because we see it as a powerful
means of preparing students to become more caring and responsible parents
and citizens and of helping colleges and universities to make good on their
pledge to 'serve society.' When describing service learning, the Medical
Education at Harvard says, "Service learning unites academic study and
volunteer community service in mutually reinforcing ways. ...service learning is
characterized by a relationship of partnership: the student learns from the
service agency and from the community and, in return, gives energy,
intelligence, commitment, time and skills to address human and community
needs." Volunteering in service learning seems to have the result of engaging
both mind and heart, thus providing a more powerful learning experience;
according to Janet Eyler and Dwight E. Giles, it succeeds by the fact that it
"...fosters student development by capturing student interest.... While not