This document discusses the definition and benefits of volunteering. Volunteering is defined as an altruistic activity intended to improve human welfare without financial compensation. Volunteering provides benefits to both volunteers and those served, such as skill development and improved mental well-being. While volunteering has advantages, there are also potential disadvantages like unpaid labor replacing paid jobs or volunteering being done for selfish reasons rather than true altruism. The document also discusses an organization called Animalife that promotes animal welfare and social support through volunteer activities.

1. VOLUNTEERING
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2. WHAT IS THE VOLUNTEERING ?
Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity and is intended to
promote goodness or improve human quality of life. In return, this activity can
produce a feeling of self-worth and respect. There is no financial gain involved
for the individual. Volunteering is also renowned for skill development,
socialization, and fun. Volunteering may have positive benefits for the
volunteer as well as for the person or community served.

3. Volunteer is donating their time, labor and talent to causes of social and
community interest and thus improve the community's quality of life.
Being a volunteer is:
Deny individualism
Deny exclusion
Stop being competitive and contribute to the collective success
Put to the side and not the front or behind
Learning throughout life
Who helps easily accept to be helped, who offers to help is aware that a
united hand the other has a multiplier effect.
WHAT IS TO BE VOLUNTEER ?

4. Provides us a sense for life;
Makes us more productive in our professional
activity;
Discovery of new skills and competencies;
New knowledge;
Development of leadership skills;
Increased enthusiasm;
Expansion of your company's vision;
Expansion of the sense of citizenship;
Expansion of social relations;
Selective Course.
Among others…
ADVANTAGES OF VOLUNTEERING

5. DISADVANTAGE OF VOLUNTEERING
Are also existing disadvantages, such as the occupation of jobs (since
employers prefer to have unpaid workers rather than having them pay).
Volunteering can also be bad, not as the act itself, but by plundering that he is
suffering. Sometimes it may be considered a selfish act because the person is
"help" the next not the simple act of help but to feel pleased with herself that
way and moreover also lost time.
Also in business there is a hypocritical idea to volunteer, just help the institutions
to which they are provided tax benefits.
After these drawbacks are
willing to do volunteer work?

6. WHAT IT TAKES TO BE VOLUNTARY ?
• solidarity
• Responsibility of all citizens in realizing the voluntary purposes.
• participation
• Intervention of volunteers and promoters in areas of social interest.
• cooperation
• Coordination of efforts and entities promoting
volunteering projects.
• No charge
• The volunteer is not remunerated for exercising
their volunteering.

7. • responsibility
• The volunteer is responsible for the exercise of the activity they undertook to
accomplish, given the expectations created to recipients of volunteer work.
• convergence
• Voluntary action on harmonization with the culture and objectives of the
promoter.
• complementarity
• The volunteer should not replace the human resources of promoters.
WHAT IT TAKES TO BE VOLUNTARY ?

8. The Animalife is a non-profit association of Awareness and Social and
Environmental Support, which was established in October 2011. nationwide, is
headquartered in Lisbon and has the support of more than five dozen
volunteers who dedicate part of their time to this cause. The Animalife has as
main objectives the promotion of citizenship, the protection of animal
environment, public health and the protection of disadvantaged people.
ANIMALIFE

9. ANIMALIFE
• Contributing to the support of institutions that are designed to
accommodate the stray animals, promote their vaccinations, deworming,
sterilization and consequent control of the overpopulation of dogs and cats,
in particular in the organization and management of these institutions.
• Conduct and support initiatives aimed at improving the quality of life of
families in need, including through suppression of food shortages or other
gender for pets that are in their care thus preventing the abandonment of
animals and over-population in kennels Associations and hostels.

10. CURIOSITIES AND OTHERS
• If we volunteer we now have more health, According to Harvard University.
In the United States, the number of
individuals who volunteer reached
almost 56%. Accordingly, 62% of
women volunteer, on average, 3.4
hours a week and 49% male volunteer,
on average, 3.6 hours per week. In
1998 it was estimated that 109 million
adults volunteered.
The Brazil is one of the
countries with more
organizations that
promote volunteering