VOLUNTARY WORK VOLUNTARY WORK Your class has watched a panel discusson on the benefits of young people doing voluntary work. You have made the notes below. Benefits of young people doing voluntary work: • Contribute to society • Learn about others • Gain skills Some opinions expressed in the discussion: It´s good for them to help others It can be open their eyes to the problems some people face. Thay learn how to do useful things. Write an essay discussing two of the benefits in your notes. You should indentify which benefit is more important, gaving reason for your choice. (220-240 words) As it is well known, the volutary work realise a benefit not only to our society, also to the volunteers, specially the young people, who obtein a positive experience and improve their self-knowledge. In this essay, I will examine two of the main beneficts of doing volutary work. Firstly, the young people learn about the others. When they have to work with ill people, children without a family, inmigrants, or people without resources, they develop their patience and become in more generousus and intuitive persons. Furthermore, if the teenagers cowork with people with strong necessities they will understand the value of their lifes and probably will become in more thankful people thanks to act of sharing vital experiences. Moreover, they would raise her hands to the others and will have an open mind. Secondly, the survays show that in these kind of jobs, the young people always gain useful skills for their future. For instance, they can learn to cook in social dinning rooms or about first aids while they were collaborating in hospital. Others would improve their teaching abilities playing with orphans or even they could do the houseworks of the old or ill people who is living alone. In other words, they may develop basic habilities that every young should have. To sum up, how I have explained before, the voluntary work offers many oppotunities to the young people. With this altruistic work they will be helping to their community and improving their skills.