Linje Rivers: Advantages of Volunteering Your Time to Community Service Volunteering your time to community service will benefit you and the community in so many ways. It is a good way to make a positive impact on other people’s lives and the community at large. Volunteering your time to community service entails demonstration of love and generosity aimed at strengthening the community. Volunteering your time to community service will shape you as a person and also your community. Advantages of volunteering your time to community service include the following; 1. It enhances self-esteem Volunteering your time to community service is a good way to improve your self-esteem. There is no better feeling than seeing the positive impact of your efforts and time on someone or something. This feeling of achievement will help to build your confidence and improve the way you view yourself. 2. It helps in building relationships Volunteering your time to community service is a great way to develop lasting relationships. It will give you the opportunity to meet and connect with other people, especially with other volunteers in your team and also strengthen your present relationships. 3. It provides emotional satisfaction When you help other people in need and your community as a whole through your simple acts of kindness, you will experience an emotional satisfaction that cannot be measured. You will feel fulfilled and satisfied knowing that you have added value to someone’s life. 4. It provides the opportunity to make a difference If you have been looking for means to make a difference in life, volunteering your time to community service is a great way to start. It will give you the opportunity to impact people’s life and your community. 5. It helps to stay healthy Volunteering your time to community service will help to reduce the risk of depression and stress. It is a good way combat stress and it also helps to keep you physically and emotionally healthy. Also, studies have found that people who volunteer their time to community service have a lower mortality rate than other people who do not. 6. It helps to develop career skills Volunteering your time to community service will help you to develop career skills. It will enhance your interpersonal skills, leadership skills, teamwork and other skills especially when you work as a team. Also, many volunteering opportunities provide extensive training and it can help you to gain experience in a new field. Linje Rivers is a Senior Attorney from Tallahassee, Florida. He likes to volunteer his time to

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Linje Rivers: Advantages of Volunteering Your Time to Community Service

Volunteering your time to community service will benefit you and the community in so many ways. It is a good way to make a positive impact on other people’s lives and the community at large. Volunteering your time to community service entails demonstration of love and generosity aimed at strengthening the community. Volunteering your time to community service will shape you as a person and also your community.

Advantages of volunteering your time to community service include the following;

1. It enhances self-esteemVolunteering your time to community service is a good way to improve your self-esteem. There is no better feeling than seeing the positive impact of your efforts and time on someone or something. This feeling of achievement will help to build your confidence and improve the way you view yourself.

2. It helps in building relationshipsVolunteering your time to community service is a great way to develop lasting relationships. It will give you the opportunity to meet and connect with other people, especially with other volunteers in your team and also strengthen your present relationships.

3. It provides emotional satisfactionWhen you help other people in need and your community as a whole through your simple acts of kindness, you will experience an emotional satisfaction that cannot be measured. You will feel fulfilled and satisfied knowing that you have added value to someone’s life.

4. It provides the opportunity to make a differenceIf you have been looking for means to make a difference in life, volunteering your time to community service is a great way to start. It will give you the opportunity to impact people’s life and your community.

5. It helps to stay healthyVolunteering your time to community service will help to reduce the risk of depression and stress. It is a good way combat stress and it also helps to keep you physically and emotionally healthy. Also, studies have found that people who volunteer their time to community service have a lower mortality rate than other people who do not.

6. It helps to develop career skillsVolunteering your time to community service will help you to develop career skills. It will enhance your interpersonal skills, leadership skills, teamwork and other skills especially when you work as a team. Also, many volunteering opportunities provide extensive training and it can help you to gain experience in a new field.

Linje Rivers is a Senior Attorney from Tallahassee, Florida. He likes to volunteer his time to

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community service as much as possible. He has been a Volunteer Student Coordinator for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) for more than six years.