Why People Volunteer? For Helping or For Benefits
Why do people volunteer? It’s a hard question to answer. I divide the answer into two. The first one is Spiritual benefits and the second one is Personal & Career benefits.
Spiritual Benefits
1. Understanding Other Lifes
By volunteering, you can meet new cultures, bring people into your social network, make friends, and much more. It will also make you aware of the issues that other people deal with, which will increase your skills like empathy.
2. Getting Self Awareness
It is possible that you can face to face with hard-to-bear situations in your volunteering journey. But you must be resistant and motivated. Dealing with these situations can make you think about your living purpose and understand who you are.
3. To support a mission they believe in
When people learn about an organization that aligns with their personal values, it makes them want to be a part of the organization. Missions like feeding animals, helping old people, fighting cancer…
Personal & Career benefits
1. To build a resume
Some high school and licensed students attend volunteering organizations for adding them to their resumes. By making this they look more social. Despite it looking rude, I think every kind of help is good.
2. Get or stay healthy
It’s true! Charity runs and walk-a-thons are excellent ways to stay motivated in your personal goals of weight loss or simply maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
3. Looking good-hearted
I’m not speaking for the whole. But rarely some of the people who attend volunteering events, only attend for looking kind-hearted and sharing photos on social media. I think this is not a problem because by sharing these events they set a good example for others.
Nowadays also look for volunteering events. But I couldn’t attend one yet. I wrote this article because I was not aware of why I was wanting to become a volunteer.
But now I know why I want to volunteer. I want it because I want to help others and improve my social skills like empathy.
So for what do you volunteer?
