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Improve the Present – Change the Future!

Now we’d like to tell you about the volunteer movement which is one of the activities offered by the Movement of the First.  

Todaу the volunteering is widespread around the world and it becomes more and more significant in modern society.

Volunteers are in demand today, as a huge number of people, animals and the environment need help and support. Special attention is drawn to youth volunteerism as one of the forms of youth involvement in social life.  That’s why many students of our school joined the Volunteer movement.

Volunteerism has a long and rich history. For instance, it was a matter of honor for our ancestors to host a stranger. Even poor people would give them shelter and share with them their food.

 Merchants founded soup kitchens, asylums, and hospices, and it was also an affair of honor. Every person felt personally responsible for others, the unprivileged, the sick, the poor and orphans. Especially widespread was this support at times of social disasters, such as wars and epidemics.

Even the czar's family members from their childhood took part in nursing the sick in hospitals.

Nowadays lots of volunteer organizations exist in our country. They unite people who take care of homeless people, animals, try to solve many ecological problems  to prevent natural disasters.

Volunteering in our school is becoming more popular among students, their parents and teachers.

With the help of our parents we conducted the action «Help the front”  when we sent a lot of clothes, food and other things to those soldiers who are at the special military operation. We also joined the campaign “KuZnya for Victory” arranged by the volunteers of our city. Students of our school wrote letters and drew pictures for soldiers. We even received a video reply!

Last year the volunteers of our school prepared gifts for students from Gorlovka, Donetsk Republic.

Thanks to our teachers we regularly help homeless and sick animals providing them with food and medicine. Visiting animal shelters leaves a lasting impression and brings  up unforgettable emotions.

The environmental problems are among the most important ones. All year round we arrange clean-up-days in the school yard and nearby territory, we plant flowers, collect garbage, sweep fallen leaves, clear the schoolyard of snow and prepare flowerbeds.

Our Geography teacher arranged waste paper collection which is held twice a year. The waste paper we collect is recycled at the recycling factory in Kemerovo to be used in producing newspapers, toilet paper, cardboard and so on.

A group of students was taught how to treat plants and now they are responsible for watering and cutting all the plants in our school.

Last year one of the volunteers of our school Alexandra Kuzmina was awarded the prize and the title “Volunteer of the Year”. Her experience of working with groups of children encouraged her to enter the university to become a psychologist.  And the volunteer movement of our school got a prize “For the contribution to the development of the volunteer movement”.

But Volunteering is not such a simple thing anyone can suppose. It can be stressful and dangerous, physically and mentally exhausting. Confrontation with reality may shock some students. As a result, they may lose motivation for volunteering.

Some people think we do voluntary work because it is trendy and volunteering can look good at our résumé. But it’s not true. While helping others you learn responsibility and empathy towards people, animals and nature. You become more independent, mature, careful, sympathetic and supportive. And you will definitely value your own life much more afterward. You reach self-development through volunteering. No doubt, kindness and mercy will save the world. We are sure that our future and the future of further generations depend on us.  

Besides, Volunteering can be much more fulfilling compared to a normal job and it can turn into a regular job after some time.

In conclusion, volunteering is not just an opportunity to provide real assistance to those ones who need  help and attention but also a way to influence and shape the future.