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Writer's pictureKasundi Heshara Weerasinghe

Do you know about Volunteering?

What 's the meaning of volunteering?

Volunteering is a voluntary action of an individual or a group freely giving time and labour for community service. Many volunteers are specifically trained in the medicine , education, and emergancy rescue sectors.


What are the main types of volunteering?

Volunteering in service learning events the result of engaging both mind and heart. This provides powerful experience. some of them are ,

  1. Skills based volunteering. - This means specialized skills and the talents of individuals to strengthen the infrastructure of non profits. This helps to build and sustain their capacity successfully.

  2. Virtual volunteering - Also called e - volunteering and online volunteering .virtual volunteering is also known as a cyber service. telementoring. They use the internet and the home , school and smartphone.

3 Volunteering often plays following natural disasters ,such as floods , droughts , earth quakes , tsunamis .During a disaster they helps to give us a shelter, protection and money to reconstruction.


Potential advantagers of volunteering.

Mental health- A world wide survey was conducted in a study suggesting. That people who experience the highest levels of happiness the most successful in terms of close volunteer work and relationships.


Longevity - Volunteers are observed to have a reduced mortality risk compared to non- volunteers. That adults over 65years who volunteers may experience improved physical and mental health and potentially reduced mortality.


Academic - volunteering for community service as provides oppertunities for students to surround themselves with new people which help them to learn how to work as together as a group ,improve teamwork and relational skills.























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