"Volunteer and Find a Charity" Semester Essay #3

             When you volunteer, you are not just helping out the surrounding community, you are also helping yourself. Charities help people who are need of extreme help such as food, financial needs or any other assistance. When you donate to charities, you are also helping people who may be suffering from a rare or fatal illness or disease. People should volunteer some of their time to try and help another person who may be in need of some assistance. Instead of sitting on the couch bored, watching television and eating an unhealthy snack, you could be doing something much more productive such as helping to plant trees in your local neighborhood. If you don’t have any spare time to volunteer, you could always donate a small amount of money to a charity or foundation. A little bit of help could really make a difference in someone else s life. It doesn’t matter how you help. The only thing that matters is that you help.

            When you volunteer, you are voluntarily offering yourself for a service or undertaking without receiving any pay. If you are feeling down, you could go help someone else.  By helping another person, you make them feel better about themselves. Knowing that you were able to help someone else feel better about themselves, it makes you feel better knowing that you helped them. If you were sad and depressed and didn’t have anyone, you would be glad if someone came to you offering you their assistance.

            If you don’t have any time to spare, you have the option of donating money or goods to the charity of your choice. There are many different charities that have different needs and help different types of people. If I were able to donate any money to a charity or foundation I would contribute a donation to the “Make a Wish Foundation”. It makes you sad to see precious young children trying to fight for their life against a deadly disease that is most likely going to win. You wouldn’t want to let that child live a miserable life. You would want to make it the happiest days of their entire life. Making a donation to a foundation like “Make a Wish Foundation”, would help children who are in very similar situations.

            You could become physically involved and volunteer or you could just donate a bit of money to a charity that you would like to sponsor. You are encouraging the people that you are helping to help someone else and that person would try to help another person and so forth. When your friends see you volunteering they are going to want to do it too. By making donations to charities, you could help fund research for cures of serious injuries such as HIV, AIDS, and different types of cancers.

            I believe that there are a lot of people who need help in the world and we are the people that should be helping them. We can help them by volunteering at different places around our community, donate to a charity or organization and encourage people that we know to do the same. Donating to a charity or volunteering would make you feel better about yourself due to the fact that you had a positive impact on someone elses life. Do your part and volunteer and donate today.