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What is Community Service

The historical backdrop of humankind doesn't recollect a general public, which would be stranger to the thoughts of deliberate and impartial help. There have consistently been individuals in every region who helped the local community in which this individual was conceived and lived. In any case, just in the 20th century, on the European landmass, community service started to get the highlights of an overall social wonder.

After the First World War, in 1920, in France, close to Strasbourg, the principal Community Service undertaking was done with the cooperation of German and French youth, in order to reestablish the ranches obliterated by World War I in the zone of the wildest battlefields among German and French soldiers. From that point forward, community service has acquired force and fame on an overall scale. 

In many countries of the world, community service work today is a daily social practice: people unite to plant trees, teach healthy lifestyles, hold environmental campaigns, organize conferences, forums, build, prevent offenses, and solve common problems.

The Main Characteristics of Community Service

The modern stage in the development of community service is represented by three groups of approaches that have developed and manifested themselves: the concept of civil society, the economic approach, and the labor approach, the essence of which we have mentioned above.

The main characteristics are:

There are several different types of community service:

In this type of activity, a person's motivation is very important. As a volunteer, he must understand that he will participate in any projects:

Conclusion

Motivation is what pushes people to take action by their needs. Often the motivation for altruistic help is the need to connect with other people to be a part of the community that you care about. Community service meets the natural need to be a member of a group whose values ​​and goals the person can fully meet.

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