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Volunteering and what we can gain from it


Volunteering is a certain activity or work done for free by a person or a group. People can volunteer in various fields. We were brainstorming and came up with many areas of volunteering. 

It can be done in NGOs /non governmental organization/, environmental organizations, health care centers, rescue centres, community centres, orphanages, festivals, events, etc. Most common activities can be cleaning the nature, building or renovating public places, harvesting crops, teaching, taking care of the disabled, old or sick, running a bio farm, etc. We also can be volunteering inside in offices to help small businesses or non-profit organizations, organizing summer camps for kids, helping in red cross, public libraries, organizing clothes or book swaps, helping in animal shelters or helping with some events for example concerts or charity gatherings.

But why do people volunteer if they do not get any reward for it? The truth is we can gain so much more than money in our life. In offices we can gain experiences how to work with documents, how to enlarge our creativity and thinking out of the box. Also a little great feeling about yourself doing the good is pretty amazing. I think i dont even need to mention the good vibez and being able to socialize with people with similar interests and goals. It is one more reason to expolre and care about your mental health when you have great surrounding factors. As the powerful saying says "we learn all life" and that is also importatnt to know that while volunteering and interacting with other people we find new types of perspectives on the world or maybe just find out about new lifestyles. By not talking only to adults, many meaningful conversations are happening with children. Last but not least you can get to places where you would be probably  not able to get at other conditions, ag. to backstages, to big company meetings, night "parties" where you can meet many powerful people or just find sponsors for your own buisness.

Volunteering is for everyone something different but it means to all of us who volunteer the same thing also the same reward. Gratitude, empathy, love and many other feelings which are sometimes more than any amount of money are part of reward when volunteering and can never be taken away from you.


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