Today, more and more young people want to be helpful and become volunteers. The volunteer movement is gaining momentum in almost all areas of life where volunteer assistance is required. And this is not a tribute to fashion, it is a civic position. To help, it is not necessary to own large sums of money and opportunities. You just have to be not indifferent to the problems of strangers, to be able to empathize, to serve as an example, to achieve results.
Instruction manual
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Think about what specific direction you would like to do. If you enjoy talking with children, you can visit orphanages or hospitals. Such activities include communicating with children, spending holidays, finding money and things to improve the lives of children. If you are not indifferent to the fate of single old people, you can visit nursing homes or work as an assistant in the city's social services. You will have to become a listener for pensioners, an assistant in solving everyday problems, financial and legal advisers. Animal shelters constantly need the help of volunteers. It is necessary to walk with animals, look after them, feed, treat and find new owners for them. Environmental movements attract volunteers for large-scale campaigns, such as cleaning parks and forests, fighting fires. A new volunteer movement began to attract volunteers to search for missing children. There are a lot of social movements now and everyone has the opportunity to find a direction to their liking.
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Look for volunteer movement in your city. You can find such people on social forums or sites. As a rule, there you can always find announcements of future events and trips, reports on the work done, requests for help. There you can offer your services. Write a letter to the leader of the movement in which you indicate how you might be useful. Let's say a trip to an orphanage is planned, and you have a large roomy car and you are ready to transport the necessary things. Or you can hold a quilling workshop for children, show a play, play football, make fashionable haircuts for girls, teach boys how to parkour. Or maybe you are ready to donate a certain amount of money or buy something. In any case, take the initiative and you will be surely invited to the group.
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Find a charity that attracts volunteers to your work. Work in the fund will give you the opportunity to gain experience in social work. And although at the initial stage you will not be entrusted with serious matters, you can see from the inside how good deeds are done. And this is really hard work. Subsequently, you will be able to change your voluntary work to official, becoming a full member of the fund (there is a large turnover of staff due to the large amount of work and low pay).
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