Do you participate in volunteer programs ?

I love participating in volunteer programs. In college I was part of national social service and NCC. I worked for handicapped people after getting my first job. Even today I am associated with greenpeace.

I love to do it. However, I never try. My health is not good. So, I can't. In my country, almost students participate in the volunteer programs. Employees rarely do them.

No, I don't. I volunteered to be a Big Sister once, about four years ago. I went in for the interview, and everything seemed great. But at the end they asked me about my health. And I got the feeling the lady thought my health would get in the way of keeping a committment to any child that I was their Big Sister. I found out later they did indeed turn me down because of my health. I'm thinking about volunteering to be a Salvation Army bell ringer this season. I know they have a need for volunteers all the time.

I volunteer two days a week in the bookshop of a local Abbey, there's a computer there so I don't get bored and it also gives me a chance to study. I first started doing it to have some work experience but now enjoy it as the Abbey is a really nice to go with lovely gardens. I see all sorts of wildlife I hadn't seen for years, birds like robins and there's also squirrels, and they have some farm animals.

Yes, I've been involved in various volunteer works. Most of those are medical missions and outreach programs for our less fortunate youth. It really feels good and helping others makes me realize how blessed I am with what I have.

I thought I knew what it meant to be voluntary. I participated as a volunteer in various projects, without seeking a return. At least so we thought and felt better in myself, believing each time that I have done a good thing. There might not be quite so. Theory to be a volunteer means making a voluntary and disinterested service. How were selfless good deed? The more I think, the more I realize that does not really have never done anything in "free." I thought I was a volunteer when, although obviously I wanted some name, I was not sure of success and we hope that participation in the event itself, the experience gained would be sufficient compensation. Confuse gain safe, quantifiable, with the gain hypothetical - possible but unlikely. It's a kind of pseudo-volunteers that can manifest in several ways. Sometimes just looking to spend time in a fun, fun is the favorite reward for a lot of effort "voluntarily." Pleasure to exercise our job is also responsible for many hours consumed at work or personal project. Sometimes, hiding under the guise of a particular interest in volunteering, be it gain experience, prestige, influence or social status. When you do not win any of this, we are disappointed. Volunteering is truly a win is not lack certainty, but certainty the absence of any gain. People do not exercise but rarely think about compensation. Sounds like a healthy thinking. It is natural to use energy in an efficient manner. Problems have only idealists like me who sometimes think they have a good idea and try to persuade others to participate. Most times the answer is "not worthwhile". Perhaps they are right. Perhaps the idea is only interesting for me and I try to use them to implement. The common interest is difficult to win without a clearly aroused. There is some good in this pseudo-voluntary, this willingness to give to us without being sure that we get something in return. It means a way of understanding the world as not only what we see, but what we imagine it could be. And this is the essential condition for daring to build our ideals. To think that after a lifetime of searching we will wait for something undefined but wonderful, improbable and yet possible.

Oh, yes! I've been participating in volunteer programs for years! I have sung and played the guitar for nursing homes since I was in my 20s. I still sing and play for one nursing home and one assisted living facility once a month. I also volunteered at the local hospital from 1988 to 1990, where I worked in dietary, delivering trays to the patients. I also used to volunteer at a reconstructed western town about 15 miles south of here where I sang and played country and western songs for their festivals and trade days. I now volunteer at a therapeutic riding center where we teach children with disabilities how to ride horseback.