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How do you feel when you help someone and the person truly feels thanks to you? We might feel inner peace and happiness. Also, the person who got some help feel grateful as well. Therefore, it is very useful to provide everyone an opportunity to learning the way of participating volunteer works in a college.
First of all, mandatory volunteer works is beneficial for students, since they learn helpful attitude and experience of supporting others. Now days society become competitive, sparing time and devotion for others become virtually impossible. Hence, by devoting on the charity, college students could learn humanitarian way of thinking. Personally, I have changed my mine after I finished mandatory voluntary program held by my college. I was reluctant to participate at the first place, because the work sounds like extremely demanding and cannot find any connection with the work and myself. However, the program turn out to broaden my experience, by meeting a tons of people who desperately need my help. Although my body got tired, I can appreciate the value of committing myself for local society and neighborhoods. Therefore, it is necessary for every students to have equal opportunity to experience this feeling.
Second, it is also good for the community. Students are young and passionate. Their major and specialization are all different which make them to have wide range of abilities. Local society has their own problem which could be effectively cured by these enthusiastic youths. Community spend a lot of budget in order to relieve these matters. According to the research conducted by Association of Public Administration (APA), average 25% of local budget were drove into the social welfare, which could be replaced by volunteer working. Also, the following study indicates that the volunteer activities of only 30% of young local people could reduce 1/3 of social work spending which was initially put into the sector. Government could invest on better businesses beneficial to the students who served for the local. Mandatory volunteer works is eventually good for the place where they live in.
For these reasons, I strongly support the idea to allow college students to participate on mandatory volunteer works. In short, the way is allowing college students to catch two rabbit at once. |