There are many reasons why people are involved in community service. There are hungry people in the world, who need someone to feed them. There are handicapped people in the world, who need someone to encourage them. There are elderly people in the world, who need someone to comfort them. There are lonely people in the world, who need someone to befriend them. There are young people in the world, who need someone to give them guidance. Such a list could go on and on, of course. The need is out there, almost everywhere you look in our communities.
Some have always asserted that it’s the government’s job to take care of people in need; other claim that private charitable organizations and individuals can shoulder the whole burden of helping those in need. These viewpoints have even entered American political debate. I think both extremes are wrong. Both government and private assistance have their place. Government assistance will continue only if voters loudly and firmly express their desires to see the continuance of particular programs. Private assistance will continue only if enough of us ask ourselves, in our hearts, whether we can afford to give of ourselves.
Certainly, different people choose to give in different ways. There’s a public service ad campaign I’ve seen which I haven’t been particularly impressed with — “Give 5%”, both of one’s time and of one’s income — but which is one of the few I’ve seen that links those two types of giving. Over the last 6-7 years, I’ve personally mostly given time. Perhaps in the future, I’ll shift toward giving money, once I have money to give, that is. But, there’s definitely something very satisfying about giving one’s time and getting one’s hands dirty (whether literally or figuratively speaking) and I can’t imagine that signing a check, no matter large, could give the same *KIND* of satisfaction.
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The similarities or and differences of studying in private university and government university A university is an institution of higher education and research which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is a corporation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education. Actually, University was divided into two which are state university and private ...
In the acknowledgements section of my masters thesis, I credit my participation in community service (via APO) as having a positive effect, noting that “it is healthy to be reminded that there are more important things out there in the real world than passing classes or finishing thesis”. It’s easy to get caught up in the details and travails of one’s own life. While I don’t wish to trivialize my own troubles or anyone else’s, it was useful to be reminded that other people have other kinds of problems, and maybe mine aren’t so catastrophic after all.
Performing community service can have other appeals as well, which are less altruistically oriented. Personally, I’ve learned how to organize groups of people and making events happen, and I’ve become a credible rough-hewn carpenter; both these skills will bear me good stead in the non-volunteer aspects of my life. I’ve become fast friends with terrific people — “kindred spirits”, as L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables would say — who I probably would never have met otherwise.
