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Volunteering in simple words can be defined as the activity or practice to improve or promote human quality of life. These days, the volunteer services are also getting used by the individuals for several purposes like skill development, making contacts for employment, fun and lots more.
Different forms of volunteering are there and are performed by a group of people. Certain groups of volunteers are known to be skilled in specific field like medicines, emergency rescue, education and others are known to serve on as needed basis.
The rest part of this article will deal with the program types meant for volunteering.
Community development
The kind of volunteer services which are meant to work to improve infrastructure and services like sanitation, water, permanent shelter, electricity, schools, reliable roads, etc, in any area is called as community development services. This development program is meant to provide items and services which are essential for the development.
Community development projects are all about focusing on community survival as well as community improvement.
Environment & wildlife
The services which are directed to environmental management is called as volunteer services for environment and wildlife. A diverse range of activities are counted under the services which include environmental monitoring, re-vegetation, weed removal and several other ecological restoration related processes. Educating the people for natural environment is also counted under the same activity. And volunteer services in this regard are focused on preserving biological diversity.
Skills development
Volunteering in which persons are specifically trained to develop skills in a particular area is called as skills development. Skills development is considered different from to traditional volunteering where it is required to offer specific training. And said kinds of services are valued as per the market value of the time.
Schools or education
Another kind of services which volunteering experts have been offering is for schools. It has been observed that a number of advantages are there for volunteers in schools and benefits are not limited to school, volunteer and student. Schools receive various benefits along with educational success is improved and encouraged as well.
Apart from these, there are several other kinds of programs for volunteering like learn abroad, virtual & micro volunteer services and much more. There are one more services type called as volunteering in developing countries which has been becoming common these days. Thus, one can select among any of the above discussed program type to be a volunteer.
