Voluntariatul între misiune socială și act de educație

Abstract

Voluntary, conscious engagement and information in volunteering actions mean much more than giving personal time, energy and inner strength or individual accumulated knowledge. Volunteering means personal development, self-education, self-discipline and, last but not least, education for life. The formal education system unfortunately fails to prepare the young generations for active and independent life, non-formal education successfully filling the gaps generated by traditional education. From a social point of view, most of the time, volunteering is confused with voluntary-patriotic work, which is why, although it brings significant advantages on a personal and community level, it continues to remain an unexploited and little-promoted resource. The fact that they can act as volunteers is not fully known. Even students under the age of 18, there is the option of informal volunteering, for young learners. The benefits of participating in such actions are multiple: psychological comfort, accumulation of experiences for the purpose of personal development, intellectual evolution and emotional maturity, adaptation and increased resilience, civics, free time management. Certainly, volunteering changed into good behavioral patterns, change mindsets and reorganize life priorities forever.