Volunteering

Members: -Matias Carrasco (3)

-Alex Magna (16)
-Matthias Montecinos (19)
-Angelo Pacheco (24)
-Martn Pino (28)
Grade: 3B
Teacher: Jos Canales
Introduction
Volunteering helps increase our self confidence and it helps us keep track of our
goals.
It also helps us be more satisfied in ourselves as it gives a sense of personal
satisfaction, as well as keeping us in touch with others regularly and it helps build a
solid support group, which also protects us from stress and depression when
someone is going through rough times.
Socializing is a good way to forget about the problems, specially when its for a good
cause, moreover, It could possibly forge bonds with people that could last a lifetime.
Teamwork means that the work in an activity is equally distributed among
teammates.
During the development of this paper well go through a variety of topics regarding
activities one could do as a volunteer, what wed get from it, what it means to be a
volunteer and the benefits wed get from it, in order to do so, well need to answer a
few questions, which are as follows:
(Beforehand, well present the activities weve picked up as our preferred activities)
This being said, the activities we thought of are:
1. Rebuilding homes for those affected by a theoretical earthquake in the most
damned areas.
2. Cleaning of our beaches to help the environment.
3. Gifting clothes to those in need (clothes that dont necessarily fit us anymore,
but would make other people very happy)
With this in mind, the activity we chose, due to its complexity and the fact that its an
activity the whole country could help in, is rebuilding homes for those affected by an
earthquake.
Following this, well proceed to respond to a number of questions regarding our
chosen activity.
1. What do we seek to resolve? Therefore, whats our objective?
2. Who is it directed towards? Who will get benefited from this?
3. Whos participating?
4. How do we obtain resources in order to develop the activities we want to?
5. In what way are said activities developed?
6. Whats our participation in these activities?
7. At last, well come to a conclusion.
Thus, well answer the questions given to us.
1. What is our objective and goals?
Earthquakes are an unpredictable phenomenon that cause lots and lots of
destruction, sadly, there are no ways to foresee an earthquake nor the damage
it will cause, but one thing is for sure, there will be people affected by it, some to
a major degree, some to a minor degree, with this activity we seek to help those
who have been affected in the worst ways by a possible earthquake, that means,
those who have lost their houses (or wherever they live) and are now homeless
and helpless.
Our goal is to help those people by building new homes for them, with all the
commodities they had before the incident (we cant guarantee that well build
giant houses with commodities way out of our range of capabilities regarding
building and funding, however, well try our very best to build comfortable places
that help the damned to feel in comfort and safety).
2. Wholl get benefited from this?
As we previously stated, the people benefited from this will be those damned by
a theoretical earthquake which could leave them homeless
Worth to mention that this is not necessarily limited to earthquakes, but also
tornadoes or any other natural disasters which are unpredictable and cause
massive damage.
3. Whos participating?
Us, those wholl help the homeless, this could be everyone in the country, as this
is something that affects all of us (anyone could get affected by an earthquake
or another natural disaster, the person whos reading this or anyone else, Chile
is a country thats very prone to natural disasters and therefore its hard to be
completely safe).
However, we cant do much by just wishing, well need some funding, and this is
where our co-operators, who will help us with money issues, come into place,
theyre just as important in the development of this activity due to the costly nature
of our activity (building just one house is already expensive, its important to keep
in mind there could be a lot of people affected by one earthquake).
At last, theres the people in need, every part of the activity is just as important
as the other, and the homeless are those were seeking to help with our activity.
4. How do we obtain resources?
Being Humanitarian activities, the best option to obtain the necessary resources,
is through donation, that is to obtain the direct collaboration of the government,
as well as obtain the help of private companies, the necessary elements for
access to fulfill our objective, which is to build houses for people affected by
catastrophes in our country like earthquakes
5.In What way its developed?
As we obtain the resources for our goal, the way we will carry it out, is through a
mass media campaign around the country, in which possibilities will be opened
so that volunteers from 17 years old and up can join in our help work, we really
hope to get the support of the media, such as television, radio, and if the situation
occurs, we can use social networks such as facebook, Instagram, among others,
and be able to get our message across the country and if possible, outside of
Chile.
6.Whats our participation in these activities?
Our participation in these work, is organize everything about the project. First, we
are going to search help with volunteer donations.
The volunteer donations, will be promoted by the mass media being a kind of
teleton. After that, we will buy all the materials like wood, nails, hammers, and
every we need to build the new houses. With the promote of the mass medias,
we doesn't need just monetary help, we also search volunteer help to build the
new houses, so in conclusion, we're going to organize the project from out,
creating the campaign of promotion, see what we need, and motivating the
people to participate in our project.
 Conclusion
During the development of our work, we have been able to learn both myself and
my group, the benefits of a volunteer activity, which in our case, was the activity of
helping people in need throughout Chile, where we through the development of this
project, we learned more about volunteer activities in general and we really hope
that our project works and its going to be useful throughout our country, and if
possible, that it can be expanded even to other Latin American countries which also
have several natural disasters such as storms. We also have a lot of expectations
about this project and there are hopes for it to work and it can give a smile to every
person in our country.
So finally, we conclude that volunteering is an activity that provides us with benefits
and satisfactions as well as us and the person helped. Also, it is a fundamental piece
so that the community of a society can be better understood and can grow as a
whole, since volunteering also unites ties between people, so they will understand
better helping a lot to the development of the value of solidarity in our lives