Volunteering at my homeplace
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- Created on Thursday, 09 March 2017 13:06
- Written by norway
(by Viktoria – Norway)
Voluntary work creates change, it challenges and it makes a difference. The voluntary sector impacts and changes society through its activities, initiatives and by creating stronger communities. Voluntary work changes the people who are involved by expanding their competence and social capital.
Here in Høyanger we have many different voluntary work, like Red Cross, night ravens, an organisation that’s named sanitation and we also have “support people”. Night ravens is usually parents who walk around in the weekends at night time to see if the youth is okay and don’t do anything stupid. “Support people” are people who are volunteering to help either troubled youth, disabled people or old people. These things are really important for the society.
In my society our sports and music teams are build up by volunteering. Without volunteering we wouldn’t have the chance to travel places, or get any equipment. We wouldn’t have anyone who could coach us, or someone who could referee our games if we didn’t have volunteering. We volunteer so we, or someone else can achieve something or so we can help someone that needs help. It’s important that more people join volunteering programs, its also a good experience.
Volunteering is also good for people that need to socialize with people, or people that have much sparetime and wants to do something after their jobs. Youths that are studying often volunteer so they can get experience within what they want to work with when they get older and have education.