volunteering can make one happier!
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VOLUNTEERING CAN MAKE ONE HAPPIER AND HEALTHIER
Live and Learn is your partner, set up with the aim of
harnessing the value of diversified pathways to learning.
In keeping with the global emphasis on learning and its
many facets, the team at Live and Learn believes that
exposure to varied work environments, classroom
learning enriched with socially and economically relevant
work situations and mid career opportunities to engage
with learning opportunities for alternative skill
formation leads to more productive individuals and a
more creative, dynamic and evolving society.
Live and Learn comprises of an experienced team of
professionals from India's premier learning institutes
with decades of experience in different work domains.
The organization works with a vast network of partners
in sectors of education, corporate entities, non
government organizations, associations, independent
professionals and artists. With growing interest in India
as an economy and its traditional treasure trove of
history, culture and arts, 'Live and Learn' can be your
perfect partner for designing your perfect window to
India and all it offers to live and to learn.
Volunteering is one of the best ways in which normal
people that have their own lives to tend to, can give back
to the society. Volunteering allows people to help those in
need of help and at the same time feel themselves as part
of the larger community. Volunteering is considered a
sacred act which teaches one a lot of values and lessons
about life and its hardship. After volunteering you
develop feelings like kindness, humility and compassion.
It gives you a good feeling and makes you happy inside.
Across the globe there are millions of people who are need of our
help; these people by the virtue of their ill fate have been born in
conditions so stressing and crude that they are left at times with
no other choice but to leave through them. Such people, who
have been abandoned by their governments at times, are destined
to be hopeless as nobody comes up to them to lend a helping
hand. But today there are number of social organizations that
provide a helping hand to these people so that they can stand for
themselves and work their way out of this vicious cycle of
poverty and humbleness. Volunteering provides you with an easy
way of showing your concern and doing your share to fight this
fight for the people who can’t do it for themselves.
Volunteering has a long and illustrious history which
dates back to the time the first civilizations were formed.
Its earliest traces can be found in the Indus-Valley and
the Vedic Civilization. Volunteering has been carried
forward for centuries by monks, students and common
people as an act of reverence for god and a genuine need
to help the needy. The monks in Christianity and the
Gurudwara system are two most prominent examples of
community volunteer for the poor and needy. In India,
this act is given a lot of importance and is considered
sacred.
Volunteer tourism refers to the activity where you
combine the two ideas of volunteering and vacationing.
The idea is to volunteer and side by side enjoy your
vacations so that you volunteer in a place that has high
tourism value and volunteering opportunities.
Volunteering tourism is a recent phenomenon which has
gained a lot of fans in people who are really geared on
contributing to the society and since it is difficult to
find time for anything now a days, vacations are being
utilized for the purpose.
India is one of the worlds most visited tourist destinations due to
its cultural diversity, history, people and the hospitality it
provides to the world. It is the epitome of culture in the world. It
is true that India is one of the fastest developing countries in the
world but it also true that one third of its population s crippled
by the curse of poverty and are struggling to even get two square
meals a day. In this regard volunteering in India has great
potential and there are more than 450,000 NGOs which are
working in diverse issues who can be great resort for any sort of
volunteering work.