Show us an activity you enjoy doing. Tell us how you think it contributes to your personal and professional development.

3. Distributing
clothes & books,
Rotract club,
Bhopal (M.P)

4. Volunteering is ultimately about helping others and
having an impact on people’s wellbeing.
What better way is there to connect with your
community and give a little back? As a volunteer, I
certainly return to society some of the benefits that
it gives me.

5.  Teaching underprivileged children.
 Organizing collection and distribution drives.
 Conducting workshops for children to help them
excel in cocurriculars along with the academics.
 Creating posters to encourage people to donate
for a good cause.

6.  These campaigns that I organized involved making
a plan, convincing people to participate and
execution of the plan in a short span of time. Thus
improving my management skills.
 Getting the idea approved from senior authorities,
involved good presentation skills.
 Planning and implementing a major fundraising
event has also helped me develop goal setting,
planning and budgeting skills.
 Supervising and training other volunteers has
added in developing supervisory and training skills.

7. For me, teaching is a stress-reliever. The idea of
giving children a reason to smile about is very
refreshing and energizing.
 Working as a volunteer teacher helped me reach
out to a new generation of underprivileged
children in dire need of real guidance and care.
Most of these kids had been abandoned by the
system and, in some cases, even by their families.

8. Posters can be a perfect medium to stir emotion or
movement for a cause.
 The designs have to be creative and innovative in
order to target the right audience effectively.
 It also involved developing a plan for social media
communication, such that the idea about any
initiative is transmitted to the community.

11.  Teamwork
 Strategic thinking
 Managerial skills
 Communication skills
 Professional networking

12. Volunteering has a meaningful, positive impact on
the community. But it can have many benefits for
an individual too.
I believe that volunteering has instilled a lot of
personality changes in me. The energy and sense
of fulfilment that I get can be carried over to a
situation and it helps to relieve tension and foster
new perspectives for old situations.
In addition to professional networking, volunteering
has been a fun, meaningful way to make new
friends.

13. “The purpose of life is not to be
happy. It is to be useful, to be
honourable, to be
compassionate, to have it
make some difference that
you have lived and lived
well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson