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Volunteen Nation Provides Many Opportunities for Young Adults

By Dr. Lori Gore-Green

Community Service is a great thing to be a part of. There are so many areas of volunteering.

Today it is so easy to find community service

tailored to your hobbies, interests, or beliefs.

There are websites and programs to help individuals

find specific community service opportunities as incentive to get more people involved and

to assure them that community service can be great fun and

will teach us how to appreciate what we have.

One website that is particularly remarkable is

VolunteenNation.org. This website is strictly for teens to search for exciting volunteer

opportunities. While there are several websites like this for

adults, this is specifically special as it encourages

individuals to get involved from a young age.

It is important for teens to experience helping others

and the feeling of appreciation that is granted

to them upon doing so.

The way it works is that teens search for volunteer

opportunities based on category, location and age. The Volunteen Nation team

leads service projects all over the nation, giving teens travel

experience and a sense of culture.

The goal of the program is to get teens involved in their

communities and to encourage them to join

Volunteen Nation events. Volunteen Nation also

features celebrity advocates that give back and help

inspire teens to do the same.

Volunteen Nation also offers grants and scholarships for

youth involved in community service. These are used to reward the youth that have made a difference in their

communities.

There are simple requirements necessary to

receive these rewards, however they are not

difficult and they will help someone else in the

meantime.

Volunteen Nation will change our youth for the better, providing them with the

necessary resources to serve their communities and

themselves.