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Volunteerism is helping others in need without expecting something in return. Some examples of volunteerism are helping out at old folks home, helping out at a church or helping out at charity organisations. Many people should not use their free time to use their electronic devices, instead, they should help out at charity organisations. That way, you can spend your time wisely by doing something productive.
Our school also does things for the community, a few examples are:
Jumble sale, walk for rice, toys from the heart and the performance at Towner Gardens
When I was in America, my class went to a nursing home to help out there.My class even put on a performance for the people staying at the nursing home. Before this experience, I did not know that volunteering was so fulfilling. I always thought that when you help someone, you will get something back in return. But,seeing the joy on the old folks's faces while we put on the performance, made me realise that when you help someone, you make them happy. When you make someone happy, you will also feel happy.
My parents always told me," Treat those how you want to be treated." If you want others to help you when you need help, you should also help others in need.
In conclusion, we should play our part to our society and help others in need by volunteering.

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volunteerism is helping others who are in need from your heart. nothing will be returned to you. usually, adults will always go to the nearby old folks home to donate food and other household supplies. but now i think we should  make a change. children, young adults or even teenagers should help contribute to the society. not stay at home use their electronic devices. i feel that when children grow up into teenagers, they usually learn to be cool as they want to be popular. they waste their money on buying squishies, notbooks, slime and other more things. i think that they should sent some time doing volunteery work. at least after all the nice things you do for the society , you will eel good andproud for what you done during the P5 camp, we went to East Coast Park to clean the beach. i find this a very good example of volunteerism as we are helping singapore to be a cleen and green country.if we did not clean up the beach some marine animal might get stuck to the rubbish and die. the turtles ay think thet the plastic bags are jelley ish and eat it up. the marine life will all die and the fod chain will slowy run out and we will all die. so as a conclusion , i think that everyone should do volunteer work when they have free time. everyone would be able to beneit from it

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In my perspective, volunteerism is helping others out of KINDNESS; the needy and not expecting any reward, nothing! Not even 1cent. Anyone, the young and the old, can both do kind deeds.  Many people assume that contribution to the society is the responsibility of those who are already well settled in life and have nothing else to do; because, even if the average person tried to contribute to the society, it wouldn’t make much difference. How wrong! It is the little drops of water that make the mighty ocean. Every person can make a difference to the society if they have the will to do so. You need not donate millions of dollars to feed the hungry or do some heroic act in order to make a difference. Little act of kindness, small changes in lifestyles and being a responsible part of the society will do the trick. During the P5 Camp, the whole level went to East Coast Park (ECP) to pick up litter under the scorching sun. Although the heat was unbearable, I tolerated the heat and was desperate to find more rubbish as picking them up is a way to contribute to the society. There are some ways to contribute to the society, like.......
1.Be a Good Samaritan:

Don’t turn a deaf ear and blind eye to the elderly person struggling with a door, a person who met with an accident or a child separated from parent. Lend your helping hand to those in need. Make that call to the concerned official when you see something amiss in your neighborhood.
2. Be a Volunteer:

Keep some time aside for volunteering to help an old age home, disability center or a hospital which is falling short of staff. It benefits you in a great way, because, the satisfaction and pride that comes from helping others can be life changing.
3.Plant a tree:

With depleting forests and increasing pollution, planting a tree will do a huge difference to our environment. A single tree will absorb nearly a ton of carbon dioxide during its life time, so by planting a seed today, you will keep contributing to the society even when you no longer live in it.
4.Strictly follow the 3 R’s:

You will do the society a huge favor if you strictly follow the 3 R’s – reduce, re-use and recycle. Remind yourself that you are contributing to the increasing pollution and destroying the environment by choosing disposable products, especially the carry bags. Use reusable products and save the environment. Recycle the products you can.
Last but not least....
5. Donate Blood:

Shortage of blood has taken many a lives. You can donate the life saving fluid and save lives. By donating blood, you are not only saving the life of the needy person, but also have the benefits of your own blood being screened for infections like HIV and Hepatitis C before being transfused to a patient. If any life threatening infection is seen, the donor will be informed by the doctors.
In conclusion, I hope that more people will contribute more to he society and volunteer as much as they can.( I will too of course!)
Here I give you 2 quotes that I think are very meaningful:

"When you volunteer,you are not paid in money or recognition, you are paid in love. People may forget what you said and people may forget what you did, but they would never forget how it made them feel." ~John Wesley

"Volunteers are not paid--not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless."      ~Helen Keller

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In my perspective, volunteerism is helping other's in any way; from just simply helping an elderly to carry his or her heavy bags to donating to charity.

Not many people do voluntary work as they are growing and their aim is to be more popular. Most girls are practically wasting their money buying useless things like squishies, flashy notebooks 📚 or keychains, slime and other unbenificial stuff. Instead, they should be donating that sum of money 💲 to charity or the needy.

The school has organised    many different activities that involve volunteerism, for example: Walk for Rice 🍚, Jumble Sale, Toys from the Heart 💖and many more.
This year, I did some voluntary work at the P5 camp. The whole P5 level was instructed to clean up different spots at the beach in East Coast Park. It was a very tiring and back-breaking work 😥, especially under the scorching, hot sun 🏜, I felt like I would melt like an ice cream 🍨 any minute. However, I tolerated the heat and perserved as I knew I was not only helping Mother Earth 🌏become cleaner and greener, I was also doing my part to save the marine animals which live in the sea. I have always read reports on sea animals like turtles 🐢 suffocating to death after consuming plastic bags that look very much like jellyfish, which is BTW, is their favourite food.
All in all, I hope everyone will take a step further to do more voluntary work to help the poor and needy because you do not need a lot of time 🕐, effort or money 💰to help them!
P.S.
Here's a quote for whoever is reading this!

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Volunteerism is helping those in need on your own free will, meaning that you don't expect anything in return. My family and I donate things quite often. Sometimes it may just be some old clothes or toys but sometimes it may be hundreds or even thousands of dollars. But in the end, no matter what you donate , even if its not something that would change lives of people ,its the thought that counts.
Volunteering is to show that you care and that you want to help those that are in need , not just donating food and money for the sake of doing so. Many people tell themselves that they don't have the time to volunteer and what they give wouldn't make a difference anyways . But , they way those people think is wrong. Every thing that you donate counts , even if its just something you don't use anymore , or something that you found lying around in your house that you thought could be of use to the needy , even if its just a cent , it counts . And if everybody donates something that they think could be of use , we could definitely save those in need.
I feel that people can volunteer by just doing simple things such as picking up litter.Our school encourages us students to do voluntary work as well by organising activities such as the jumble sale and the walk for rice. During the Primary 5 camp, we were told to pick up litter or things that could be recycled . I found it rather enjoyable as while you are helping the environment , you can also chit-chat with your friends and have fun at the same time. By the end of the day , i was exhausted but i was glad i done voluntary work.
i hope that more people would volunteer during their free time and help those in need.

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Volunteerism is defined as the use or involvement of volunteer labour, especially in community services, while expecting nothing in return. It is a way to show members of the public that we students, are not only students, but children with kind hearts that are willing to contribute to the society. Everyone has a part in contributing back to the society, even you am me. There are many ways that students can volunteer, including the orphanage, nursing homes, or even picking up the rubbish on the beach, like what we did in our P5 camp. Even though we might not be able to do much as children, we should always do it to the best of our abilities, such as donating unwanted toys to the unfortunate, so that we can brighten up someone's day.  As for cleaning up the beach, it is something each and every one of us should do, like for example,  if we see litter on the beach, we must willingly pick them up, instead of just leaving them. Worse, we should never litter on the beach ourselves as we are just harming the environment, as well as ourselves. On that day of the P5 camp, although i was sweating and extremely tired, i felt happy that me and my classmates are working together as a group to contribute to the society.
i hope that you have learnt a thing or two about how we can volunteer, and i wish these words can be turned into actions. Let us all start contributing to the society today !

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I feel that volunteerism is helping others in need and also to give back to the society while expecting nothing in return. I feel that volunteerism is a act of true kindness and you genuinely want to help the person in need. There are many things that we, students can do, like participating in the walk for rice and even self initiatives to clean up the beach in their own free time. Most people think that volunteerism is a waste of time and they do not help other people and do other things. Maybe the people in the society want to volunteer but they have a packed schedule, but some of them actually take some time off work and hep other people. I take my hat off to them, they have hectic schedules and they still can volunteer but I, as a student, put my priorities first and in the end have no time to volunteer. People and children can help in many ways, like going to the old folk's home to help out and clean the beach for a clean and green society, picking litter, raise money for the needy families. All in all, i believe that people can volunteer in their small little ways and i hope that more people can volunteer.

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Volunteerism, in my mind, is a way of giving back to the community and not expecting reward in return. The society's mind expects only majors to engage in volunteerism, they are completely wrong and that kind of thinking is considered stereotyping in many ways. Volunteerism to me is for children and adults alike, like camp, when we ALL went to go to pick up rubbish. It can also help us with the learning of social skills to survive in the real world and communicate with others when working in a team to e.g. Picking Up Rubbish.
Although we cannot do much as children, we can still do it in many ways, such as volunteering at a old folks home or raising money by selling cookies or some other product to give to charity, we can also engage in corporate activities such as Walk For Rice by NTUC Enterprises.
Although we may be tired to do these volunteer activities or  be bored, we MUST remember that this is for good of the world ( Picking up Rubbish to save Sea Creatures) or needy people ( Walk For Rice, Raising Money to Cure SARS or Ebola or any other infection.
From Science Lesson, I learnt that a glass bottle will take millions of years to just DECOMPOSE! AND THAT is why we have to pick up any rubbish we find so these rubbish will not stayin  the ocean for practically FOREVER!
We MUST ALWAYS remember to stay a good child( according to our parents.... heeheehee;))
and volunteer to help the environment and for the good of the Whole World! (Hallelujah Chorus starts playing...)
Bye to Anyone that's here now.....
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Volunteerism is to help other people with a pure heart ,not expecting  any reward or favour in return.Most people think only adults can do volunteerism ,which is totally wrong ,as even children like us can do it.Every  year ,I will do values-in-actions went to  activities like  walk for rice ,toys from the heart and many others.This year,I attended the primary 5 camp and I went to East Coast Park and picked up litter on the beach under the hot sun.Despite the heat that made me feel like dying,I was eager to find more rubbish as I know by collecting rubbish ,I am actually contributing to the society and the sea creatures.It will make our environment cleaner and a better place for everyone to live in.Some rubbish like plastic bags are littered on the beach.If we  do not volunteer to pick them up,  they will be washed into the sea and,not not only polluting the sea, but also harms the sea animals.Plastic bags can suffocate an animal and make it die.Except from doing these voluntary work that is held by the school,I encourage other children to also do voluntary work  at home.Children can  pack their own unwanted,but new clothes and toys            and donate them to charity .By doing voluntary work,which is also volunteerism,it will make a convenience to everyone

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Volunteerism means: the use or involvement of volunteer labour, especially in community services.
There are many unfortunate people around that does not know how to walk or are to old to care for themselves. we can volunteer to bring them out or provide medical support to those in need.
Volunteerism  gives you a chance to change people's lives, including your own. It gives you the satisfaction of playing a role in someone else's life, helping people who may not be able to help themselves. Volunteering is a way of giving back to your community while developing important social skills, and gaining valuable work experience all at the same time.
There are so many beneficial ways of getting involved in and giving back to your community. Not only is volunteering a rewarding experience, but it helps teenagers' reputations. By giving up a few hours of your day to clean up the local community park, you may bring a lifetime of happiness in some child's life. Or provide shelter and warmth to a family who lives on the streets by volunteering to help in building them a home. Why not spend a little time helping others, because in the end, what goes around comes around.
Volunteering is not only effective, but it's a good way to meet people, learn, and develop social skills. By helping or supporting others, you learn and use new skills.
I have not volunteered in any events before,excluding the P5 camp. Also i have not experienced what it feels like when you are volunteering with many others that you know.
There are many ways you can give back to the community without donating lots of money or spending too much time. Some examples will inspire you as we move into the season of giving (and all year round).
I really hope that more people would volunteer and make the world better and more convenient for others.
There  is a quote for                               volunteerism:
“Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.” — Elizabeth Andrew

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Volunteerism is the principle of donating time and energy for the benefit of other people in the community as a social responsibility rather than for any financial reward. Volunteering is also renowned for skill development and is often intended to promote goodness or to improve human quality of life. Volunteering may have positive benefits for the volunteer as well as for the person or community served.
Children can volunteer in charitable places like orphanages and nursing homes to read, sing or play board games with the children and elderly people there. In addition, they can help in soup kitchens to prepare the ingredients or pack food for poor.

In my opinion, the action of volunteering comes from the heart . It could be a simple gesture like helping an elderly person carry heavy groceries from the supermarket to his home.  Parents who help out at our Ngee Ann school are also volunteering their time and effort.
Children who do their voluntary
work are making the community a better place through their own efforts. It also raise their awareness of people less privileged than them and make them more compassionate citizens .

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Volunteerism is about helping people without expecting any kind of favors back.  Many people think that volunteerism is only for adults.  However, children can also contribute to the society.  As a child myself, I can do volunteer work such as beach cleaning.  I had some experience during the Primary 5 school camp where I went to the East Coast Park to pick up rubbish such as empty bottles, plastic bags, glass bottles and cigarette butts.  It was a very tiring experience but I enjoyed it because by picking up these rubbish, I am helping to save the environment and keeping the habitat clean.  If people do not care about the environment, many animals will die from suffocation by eating plastic bags or may get hurt from the glass shards.  I think we should have volunteerism as one of our core values. I hope that there will be more people volunteering to help the society in the future.

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Volunteerism is when you are doing kind deeds or errands and expect nothing in return. We should already know this as the school has been teaching us this moral value through many activities such as: Walk for rice, Beach Cleaning, Jumble Sale, etc. We have to understand that it is not the money that counts, but the thought. We will feel good afterwards and feel fulfilled after thinking that we have contributed to the community.
What the children can do is to donate food or unwanted toys to the needy and unfortunate so that they can also have some happiness in life. We can also go to the Old Folks' home to talk to the old people there and perform for them  as they may have been separated from their families and some of them are just  unhappy. It is our job to perform for them (e.g. Singing, Dancing, Martial Arts, etc.) and make them smile as they are always feeling bored and unhappy for they do nothing but stare blankly  at four walls and seeing the same faces everyday. Our school has done a few activities, and the most recent one was Beach cleaning at East Coast Park earlier this year in our Primary 5 camp.We had to pick up rubbish and throw them in a bin to make our beach clean. Although I was very tired after that, I felt happy that I had helped the community. I hope that people know this core value in their heart and do more good deeds without expecting anything in return.

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Volunteerism is people volunteering to do work for other people without expecting anything in return.  It teaches us that money is not everything, and it is the thought that counts. Once you complete the tasks, you do not earn money, but you earn the happiness of knowing that you have done something good for the community.
We, the children, can volunteer by donating food and clothes to the needy. We could also pick up litter at places such as the beach, the park, the HDB void decks and more. More things we could do is going to the old folks home to entertain and chat with the elders there as they are quite lonely. They always see the same old people there and that could be quite boring. There, we can also help clean the old folk's home. I remember that every year in primary school, the whole school would donate some money, large sum or not, to charity.
There are many ways that someone could volunteer, so much that I cannot name all of them. I hope I could be involved in more volunteer work in the future as I would love to help more people.

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Volunteerism is helping other people but receiving nothing in return. You do it because you will feel good after you have completed the task. Children can help by donating clothes, unwanted toys, or books that you no longer need. You can also go to a soup kitchen and help pack food or deliver the food to the people who are less fortunate. Volunteerism can also be going to an orphanage and entertaining the orphans. Volunteering makes the world a better place because you give back to society.Once I went to a Soup kitchen and packed food into polystyrene boxes, took bugs out from donated rice before it was cooked, helped crack many eggs and skewered chicken meat onto satay sticks. After spending the entire morning there, my mother, my sister and I were exhausted and hungry, but we felt good as we had helped the needy.

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Volunteerism is to do some work out of our kindness. It is to help the people who need help or poor without receiving any salary or anything in return. It will bring you happiness when you have help someone. There are many ways to volunteer.

We can help by donating food  to school and they would deliver it to the needy people nearby.  We can go to the beach to pick up rubbish which we had done during our P5 camp. I also learnt that a glass bottle takes millions of years just to decompose! Now I  know that we should never litter .
school will organise a funfair  every year for students to buy tickets to play games or buy  items that are donated by the students. I had bought a few tickets to play the game and this money will be donated to charity.
Every year we will also have "Walk for Rice" event. Every 200m we walk,  we will be giving a bowl of white and brown rice each to the needy.  Even I felt tired after the walk ,I was happy I had help the needy people.

Other ways that we can help, is to  set up a soup kitchen to help to pack food for the needy.  During holidays, we can go to old folks' homes and visit the old folks. We could talk to them and lend them our listening ear. This allows them to have someone to talk to so that they would not feel bored. We can also perform for them but personally I would not want to perform in front of that many people.  We can also go to the orphanage to tell the students story or play with them.I feel that it is a meaningful way to spend the school holidays. I have never done that before but will be happy to try.

In summary, I feel like we should all volunteer to give back to the society and make Singapore a better place for everyone.

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Volunteerism is people volunteering to do some work with no salary. But it is the thought that counts and what gained is actually happiness :). We can actually volunteer to visit the old folks home to entertain the old folks and clean the area up; clean up the beach-which we had done during our camp earlier this year. There are also foreign volunteenism where people from other countries go to less developed countries to teach the children, build houses and donate food , water and money. Children can volunteer in going to orphanage and fo activities with the kids there such as: telling them a story; playing games with them; cleaning up their room; performing in front of them(dancing,singing&plays).

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Volunteerism means to do a labour out of our on heart, without expecting any sort of rewards. There are many kinds of volunteer work. For example, we can help out in the nursing home or even clean up the beach, which we did in the p5 camp. Many people volunteer as they want to give back to the society, or maybe cross it out from his or hers to do list. I believe that everyone should do volunteer work because we need to learn that we should give more than we take. Also, values taught in CCE education are all applied in doing volunteer work. So, instead of boring classroom learning, I encourage CCE education teachers do organise an activity of doing volunteer work every now and then

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Volunteerism is the practice of involvement of volunteer labour, especially in one's community. Children can help out in many ways, from donating useful items to the needy to picking up litter from the beach. Doing this, the children will learn to be grateful and kind towards others. I have volunteered several times before, but I would like to share one situation that I cannot seem to forget. During the P5 camp, everybody from Primary 5 had gathered at East Coast Park to help clean the area. There were a lot of cigarettes on the floor and a few plastic bottles lying around. I did not know that so many people littered before! I can still remember that the average time taken or a plastic bottle to decompose was 450 years! Anyway, I would like the school to let us students be involved in such programmes in the future.

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Volunteerism is people volunteering to carry out a project. Volunteerism means the use or involvement of volunteer labour, especially in community services. The word also means  the act or practice of doing volunteer work in community service. Volunteering projects can help us to be kind to others and be more generous to other people. People can volunteer to help clean the environment, donating supplies to the old and needy, encourage people to recycle and ecetra. During my time, I have volunteered projects several times before.
1. Donating Food And Water
One time was my friends and I went to Ang Mo Kio Community Centre to donate food and water to the needy. The elderly were very happy and thankful to us.
2. Walking For Rice
Another time was when my classmates went for Walk For Rice. It was an activity that for every 200 metres we walk, a bowl of white rice and a bowl of brown rice will be given to the elderly. Based on what I remember, we have donated more than 16 thousand bowls of rice.
3. Entertainment
Another time was when my Cornerstone Church friends and I went to entertain the old people by performing instruments to them. They were really happy with our performances.
4. My Favourite, The P5 Camp
My favourite was the P5 Camp. It was where the P5s went to clean the beach at East Coast Park and some HDB flats as well. We learnt a few things from the camp.
5. Projects From The School
The school also has projects like Toys from the Heart, Jumbo Sale and many more. After volunteering a few projects, I feel that I want to volunteer in more projects to make the world a better place.
Let's volunteer more projects!
I hope that I can volunteer in more projects to help the world in the future. In addition, if there were more projects from the school, I would go for all of them.

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Volunteerism is helping others without getting anything in return. Children can volunteer my picking up litter found in public areas. We can also volunteer by donating food and water or money to charity. During my free time, I have helped clean up my neighbourhood and participated in a fundraising program. I also visited an elderly home helping old folks and cheering them up. I know that if everyone contributes, we could improve the lives of hundreds of lifes.

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Volunteering gives you an opportunity to change people's lives,including your own.It gives you the satisfaction of playing a role in someone else's life,helping people who may not be able to help themselves.Volunteering is a way  of giving to the community while developing important social skills,and gaining valuable work experience all at the same time.

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Volunteerism is about freely offering to do something /doing something without expecting something in return .
Children can volunteer during the school holidays by donating food , going to soup kitchens and helping to pack food , ect . Children can also visit old folks homes and talk to the old people there because usually they see the same old faces and do not get to tell younger        people their past stories . Children should also donate toys which we do not want but at the same time the must also be in good condition because if you give them dirty / broken toys they will feel very sad as it would make them feel unwanted .I hope that everyone will have a kind heart and will give back to the community in their free time.

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volunteerism means :the policy or practice of volunteering one's time or talent for charitable,educational or other worthwhile activities,especially in one's community.Children can help out by:donating food to the poor,donating the toys that they no longer play with and that are still working to the poor children in Singapore that have no toys or even help to clean old people's home.Every once in a while, i will go to elderly people's houses and clean their house for them with my parents and friends.

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