It's nice to be part of this community, this is my first time posting here as a Hive member after I joined the platform some days ago.
I will start my discussion by giving the literal meaning of Volunteering as well as the word Volunteer.
The word volunteering; is the action of the verb ' volunteer', while the word Volunteer simply means
One who enters into, or offers for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
This day, everyone wants to get rewards for every service rendered most especially the youths, that is the reason why it's very rare to see volunteers in our environment.
Volunteering has immeasurable rewards if one is involved in it, though it's not easy because it involves sharing love and rendering services to people you don't even know most of the time, and above all it is helping those in need, without expecting anything in return.
Do you volunteer?
Of course yes, I am a member of peace corps some years ago, peace corps is non-governmental organization where we deal with making peace in our community.
Also, I'm a member of 'CSR' (Corporate Social Responsibility) a section of my church, we deal with the welfare of the environment where we plant our church by doing the drainage, by doing the faulty bridge, by filling the potholes of the road that leads to the church auditorium.
There is a particular year, that we discovered that most of the houses in our church street has no number, even the ones that has number it has almost wiped off and we volunteer to do another set of numbers that is uniform and accordingly, starting from the junction to the very end of the street.
There is a particular time, we discovered that some drainages in my street has been blocked, as a result of sewage disposal and this can cause flooding that will affect some houses in my street, I and some youths in my street volunteered to clear the drainages and at the end of the day, the elders in my street gather us together to pray for us.
And I must confess that their prayers are working for us all up to today. So there are lots of rewards attached to volunteering, some of them is, answered prayers, favour from God and so on.
Thanks for reading......….