Voluntary service in our school began in 2007 when students organized a charity concert to raise funds for building a hospice. This led the students to participate in other charitable actions to support the hospice in Tychy. The youth then felt motivated to continue assisting the hospice through various activities. A school volunteering club was created, and students have since organized fundraisers like charity fairs and concerts. They also participate in charity collections, take care of children in hospices, and support animal shelters in Tychy.

1. Voluntary service
in our school

2. Volunteering is the
way in which a group
of individuals from a
community partake in
social, charitable and
environmental
activities on a
voluntary basis.
Volunteering clearly
doesn’t involve any
remuneration. Its nature
and essence, in fact,
relates to the human need
of helping others and
advocate social causes.
The purpose, therefore, is
for a person to give his
own contribution for the
greater good.
What is a voluntary service?

3. this is a person who does
something especially
helping other people,
willingly and without being
paid for it
(noun)
Volunteer

4. AS AN INDIVIDUAL, YOU
CAN INVEST RESOURCES
AND MONEY IN MANY
CHARITABLE INITIATIVES.
Depending on the causes and issues
you identify yourself into the most,
you can choose which association
or project to support(financially).
Nevertheless, even more effective
than cash or in-kind donations is
giving your free time and help do
some good.
The easiest and more practical form
of volunteering is the one meant to
benefit the community you live in.
That is, going to homeless-relief
shelters the day of Christmas or
animal shelters and help give food
to people in need, for example.
Furthermore, another way you can
give back to your community is by
volunteering at associations and
non profits that primarily deal with
the safeguard and protection of a
specific neighborhood.
How can you become one?

5. How does a volunteering look
like in our school?
In 2007, because of the students initiative, our local Theatre organized
a charity concert for building a hospice. The organization of the concert
then led to a participation in other charity actions for the hospice. After
a concert, the youth from our school began to feel the need to support the
hospice in Tychy in various charitable actions. During next action "Fields
of Hope" volunteers from our school planted in fields next to the City Hall
of Tychy daffodils as a symbol of hope.
After "Fields of Hope" a school volunteering club was created and
students created a school daffodil garden. Flower planting ceremony took
place in the presence of people from the hospice.
How did it all start?

9. How does a volunteering look
like in our school?
organize charity fairs, concert etc. to raise money for the
hospice in Tychy
participate in charity collection in shopping centers
take part in fundraising at cemeteries in Tychy
prepare performances for orphaned children, on the occasion
of Children’s Day and Saint Nicholas’ Day
support an animal shelter in Tychy
take care of sick children from Silesian Hospice for Children
foundation
What do we mostly do?

14. thank you
for your
attention!
Presented by:
Wiktoria Garcorz
and
Oliwia Świerkot