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Volunteers. Who are They?
Voluntary activity is a broad group of numerous activities including traditional forms of mutual assistance as well as self-help, official service rendering and other types of citizens participation.
Students usually choose voluntary as their extracurricular activity. There are several reasons for the choice:
1. charitable factors, aimed at the development of humans life quality;
2.practical motives, targeted at skill development;
3.communicational motives, meant for meeting other people, having a good time, etc.;
4.professional reasons, when volunteers look for contacts of possible employment.
The Directions of Voluntary Activities
There are several directions which voluntary activities involve:
1.planting plants, grass, bushes and trees;
2.relief for such social types of people, as aged and disabled persons, homeless children, youth, students and other people, migrants, refugees, and others;
3.beautification of pavement and yards;
4. looking after animals;
5. providing a help to animals, supporting zoos as well as national parks;
6.holding academic lectures directed to prevention of various diseases, drug addiction, juvenile delinquency;
7.holding charitable shows and performances;
8.popularization of a healthy way of living;
9.on-line volunteering, as creating totally free on-line libraries, encyclopedias, and so on;
10.working as a technical aid.
Voluntary These Days
Voluntary activity is the excellent demonstration of a fully-fledged civil culture. In the United States laws grant volunteers different discounts for different products and some free educational and cultural services.
Today voluntary actions are getting more popular at a vocational time. The The majority of active volunteers are still students and senior pupils. Aside from other voluntary associations there exists a voluntary club. Its responsibility is to popularize voluntary activities. It organizes various social activities and actions, draws attention to the need of a voluntaries improvement. As volunteers point out, the primary thing for them is not in their actions but in the consideration and warmth that they can give indigents."
