Giving back to the community!
The importance of giving back to the community.
Supporting people with sight loss
Reasons giving back to the community is good.
2. Social opportunities - Loneliness and boredom are common among retirees, students, and people who recently move into a new city/neighborhood. Volunteering can relieve a sense of social isolation.
3. Give back to your community - Doing something for the community you live in and returning the favor to those who have helped you are strong motivators. Everyone, rich or poor, takes from society, and volunteering is one way to show a sense of appreciation
4. Boost your self-esteem - Many volunteers experience a sense of increased self-esteem and greater self-worth. Helping others makes you feel good about yourself, because you’re doing something for someone that they couldn’t do for themselves.
5. Gain a new perspective - Volunteering can offer a new perspective—seeing people who are worse off than you are, yet still hanging in there, can help you see your life in a whole new light.
Steve Nash
"Think globally, act locally. I believe the measure of someones life is the effect they have on others."
Colin Powell
"Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up."
Vocabulary
2. Donation - Something that is given to a charity especially a sum of money.
3. Non-profit - Not making or conducted primarily to make a profit.
4. Volunteer - A person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task.
5. Charities- The voluntary giving of help, typically in the form of money, to those in need.
6. Fundraising - Process of gathering voluntary contributions of money or other resources, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies
7. Contribution - A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
8. Community service - Voluntary wokk intended to help people in a particular area.
9. Organization - An organized body of people with particular purpose, especially a business, socirty association, etc. .
10. Poverty - The state of being extremely poor.