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Volunteering Makes Us Better Leaders

Volunteering is indeed the best thing a youth could spare time with. It doesnt
infect need walking off your work but it is all by the means of you contributing
your time for the world. You may not realise it as a great acknowledgement of
you for others but to keep in mind that a small lending of hand will make a huge
difference in the future.
Being a volunteer is about you being able to lend your time for others. It doesnt
matter if its an hour or two but the thing that matters is how you evaluate those
time you had for someone. Even a single minute could be precious to someone
out there so being a volunteer is about having the passion to ease the life of
others.
A volunteer is also of someone being sincere in doing a job without expecting
any return such as money or gift. Its all about willing to sacrifice their ability in
order to decrease the burden for others or something.
So how does volunteering makes you a leader? How much of volunteerism is
enough to be a leader? This is what we as the latest generations of youths
should be aware of in order to create a better understanding of what volunteer is
and how it is vital in the upcoming era of globalization.
According to Wikipedia, Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity
where an individual or group provides services for no financial gain. Volunteering
is also renowned for skill development, and is often intended to promote
goodness or to improve human quality of life. Volunteering may have positive
benefits for the volunteer as well as for the person or community served. It is
also intended to make contacts for possible employment. Many volunteers are
specifically trained in the areas they work, such as medicine, education, or
emergency rescue. Others serve on an as-needed basis, such as in response to a
natural disaster.
Many schools on all education levels offer service-learning, which allow the
student to serve a group through volunteering while earning educational credit.
According to Alexander Astin in the forward to Where's the Learning in Service
Learning? by Janet Eyler and Dwight E. Giles, Jr.,"...we promote more wide-spread
adoption of service-learning in higher education because we see it as a powerful
means of preparing students to become more caring and responsible parents
and citizens and of helping colleges and universities to make good on their
pledge to 'serve society.' When describing service learning, the Medical
Education at Harvard says, "Service learning unites academic study and
volunteer community service in mutually reinforcing ways. ...service learning is
characterized by a relationship of partnership: the student learns from the
service agency and from the community and, in return, gives energy,
intelligence, commitment, time and skills to address human and community
needs." Volunteering in service learning seems to have the result of engaging
both mind and heart, thus providing a more powerful learning experience;
according to Janet Eyler and Dwight E. Giles, it succeeds by the fact that it
"...fosters student development by capturing student interest.... While not

recognized by everyone as a legitimate approach, research on the efficacy of


service learning has grown. Janet Eyler and Dwight E. Giles conducted a national
study of American college students to ascertain the significance of service
learning programs, According to Eyler and Giles," These surveys, conducted
before and after a semester of community service, examine the impact of
service-learning on students. They describe their experience with students
involved in service-learning in this way: "Students like service-learning. When we
sit down with a group of students to discuss service-learning experiences, their
enthusiasm is unmistakable. ...it is clear that [the students] believe that what
they gain from service-learning differs qualitatively from what they often derive
from more traditional instruction."
he goal of the report is not to undermine the importance of volunteering for
altruistic reasons, but rather to highlight the mutually beneficial nature of
volunteering and inspire people from all walks of life to step up to the challenge
of volunteering abroad. In addition, when volunteers recognize how they can
benefit from their experience, a sense of shared power and purpose is created
between host communities and volunteers.

Becoming a leader is a definitely not an easy task indeed. However, with


volunteering, a person could build self- esteem will indirectly create a sense of
leadership in the individual itself.

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