Volunteering for a cause
Did you even experienced that when feeling low, negative news items and happenings can make you more depressed? Simultaneously, positive and delightful news is all the reason to boost your morale and beat your stress as well. What does this mean? At low times, your mind wants to hear about good things happening around you or out in the world. By this, it sees a ray of hope, and realize than things are becoming soothing soon.
Now, put it this way. Will not you be feeling more peaceful and blissful if you yourself are working for betterment of the society? You surely be. Because once you start being giver, you are no longer a taker of what the day throws at you. In other words, you start taking calmly and happily whatever comes in your way throughout the day. First of all, you must find out ways through which you will be able to become giver to the society.
Is volunteering a public health intervention?
The United Nations as well as American and European governments have time and again advocated volunteering as a technique to involve people in local communities and boost social capital. They projected volunteering as a potential for public health benefits, including encouragement in wellbeing and reduction in health inequalities. Contributing time in social causes of your belief enhances your well-being and overall life satisfaction.
As per a limited-designed study of University of Exeter Medical School of 2013, volunteering boosts mental health and encourages people’s survival. Such engagement in a cause helps decline in depression and reduces early dying risks. However, the researchers suggested further big-scale studies to push volunteering as a public health promotion intervention. Here, we are going to tell you a few ideas to engage yourself in a local cause.
Ways to get engage in local causes
- Women empowerment programme: A sustainable women empowerment project gives you opportunity to offer your bit of contribution in gender equality. You can educate these women on literacy, human rights, women’s health, life skills or professional skills.
- Community development programme: Being part of such community developing initiative in a developing or underdeveloped country helps you give your bit to society. These projects involve you in water, health, education, environment and other issues.
- Volunteer for local NGO project: You must have heard the names of many NGOs working on various issues in your city and around. You must decide which issues you are mostly concerned of before joining. You may become part of a team aiming to solve local issues.
More of volunteering for a cause
- Animal preservation communities: Join hill communities which are very much concerned with the preservation and care of rare and fear extinct animals of their region. During your stay, you can learn several aspects about respective animal in a social system.
- Wildlife research expedition: Be a part of a wildlife research expedition and know more deeply about a life circle. You will have an opportunity to have a close look at history, behavior, training and biology of lions, tigers, leopards, rhinoceros, or elephants.
- Marine life conservation expedition: If you are more interested in sea and ocean, you can join a marine life conservation expedition. This gives you a big opportunity to enhance your knowledge of marine inhabitants and underwater environment and life.
