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The Power of Volunteering: Impacting Lives Through Service

Discover the impact of volunteering throughout history and in modern times, encompassing 19th to 21st centuries. Explore various volunteering types such as skills-based, environmental, and in developing countries. Uncover the numerous benefits of volunteering including personal growth, improved health, and increased happiness. Learn how volunteering can enhance your skills, build experience, and foster a sense of love and gratitude. Be inspired by famous volunteers and discover the fulfillment of selflessness in service to others.

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The Power of Volunteering: Impacting Lives Through Service

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  1. Make the Difference If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.

  2. It is also renowned for skill development and it promotes goodness or to improve human quality of life. What means volunteering? It is an altruistic activity where an individual or group provides services for no financial gain..

  3. A drop of history 19th century 20th century 21st century

  4. What about volunteering nowadays? Nowadays there are a lot of types such as: Skills-based volunteering, Volunteering in developing countries, Environmental volunteering…

  5. That sounds fantastic! And there are a lot of benefits!

  6. “Volunteers are paid in six figures... S-M-I-L-E-S.” • Volunteering time makes you feel like you have more time. • Said Mogliner: “The results show that giving your time to others can make you feel more ‘time affluent’ and less time-constrained than wasting your time, spending it on yourself, or even getting a windfall of free time.” 2. Volunteering your skills helps you develop new skills. An article in Stanford Social Innovation Review called skills-based volunteering overseas “the next executive training ground.” 3. Volunteering your body helps you have a healthier body. A Corporation for National & Community Service report noted: “Research demonstrates that volunteering leads to better health… those who volunteer have lower mortality rates, greater functional ability, and lower rates of depression later in life than those who do not volunteer.”

  7. “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” 4. Volunteering your experience helps build your experience. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Next Avenue have published articles about how volunteering can help you earn your next job. As the Journal wrote: “According to the survey of 202 human-resource executives, skilled volunteer work — such as helping a nonprofit with its finances — makes job applicants look more appealing to hiring manager.” 5. Volunteering your love makes you feel more love. Researchers at the London School of Economics examined the relationship between volunteering and measures of happiness, they found the more people volunteered, the happier they were. Volunteering builds empathy, strengthens social bonds and makes you smile — all factors that increase the feeling of love.

  8. Famous Volunteers

  9. AND… YOU

  10. "The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.“ - Gandhi Thank you! Made by: Andreea Barbu Andreea Iordache Anca Scarlat

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