Voluntary work
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- Created on Sunday, 26 February 2017 21:13
- Written by austria
Sophie Etzl
Volunteering is really important for us in Austria. The majority of inhabitants is at least member of one organisation. It is normal to start volunteering as a child, they help in the church or join the fire brigade, I think in small villages it is really important to know hat everybody would help you and to know that even when the people are not interested they still will help.
The fire brigade is in my opinion really good organised and a lot of young people want to be a member of this organisation.
A radio station organises together with some schools a 72 hours project where the students help other people for example one time we spent the 72 hours with old people in care or the next time made a garden for refugees we had to ask different companies if we can have flowers or something and then we designed a new garden with the things we got.
We also have a lot of social organisations like the caritas or the red cross. Also there are some random people which help to integrate the refugees. For example retired teacher which teach now refugees German and a few others which organise events where you get to now the other culture.
To rescue the environment we have organisations like Greenpeace and also private people which organise a few people to collect the litter in the nature and give workshops about recycling and things like a small global footprint.
I would like to work with caritas I think personally it is it is a good way to help people and I am really interested in other cultures, because of this I would like to work with refugees and teach them German or work with the underage kids which came here without their parents.