My volunteering experience
From my childhood I always had this wish to make the world better and help others. Actually it's so cliche nowadays that everybody says the same. Especially in the developed countries, almost everyone is involved with volunteering and different causes.
I believe that people are kind and caring by their nature. Maybe that's why volunteering became a popular thing. However, from my experience volunteering in the orphanage center, I have witnessed the other sides of the volunteerism. It involved many other things rather than being a tool to make a real contribution to the pressing issues of the society.
During the holidays and celebrations the center was packed with people taking selfies here and there with children. Sadly, during the normal days very few committed people would visit. So it raised a question - Do people volunteer to make their-selves happy or praised by their friends and family ? Or do they really want to help and make change? I think it differs from person to person. Some have genuine heart to help the vulnerable. But for others it has also became a step towards their career goals. In this competent society, the newly grads hardly can get a desired job without any experience. Accordingly many youth are literally forced to be involved with volunteering in order to fill their resume. And the demand of volunteering work has increased dramatically, which easily became a business sector of its own.
Whatever reason made people to be involved in volunteering, it definitely raises awareness and gives exposure to the real problem. It is a willingness or capability of different people how to react on it.
For instance, I deeply understood that there are no place to replace a FAMILY environment. So I support orphan children to be raised in a family environment. But it seemed to me that there are not many ways to change this situation. However, I saw news and documentaries about other people making lot of effort to change the traditional orphan centers, like advocating the tax policies for the families raising orphan children, to support the relatives of the children to help them to raise them and etc.
So there are many solution to different issues, and if the volunteers are really determined, together we can make a real contribution !
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My name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because through them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately, it is impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are very small countries with very few population, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this, I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Mongolia? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Mongolia in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally, I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez
Thank you for visiting my blog. I've visited yours too. You have fabulous collection of letters from all around the world. And as I can see, you already have 4 letters from Mongolia ! So I wonder if your plan is to get letter from each country every year.
Anyway, as you've said, it is a sign of peace and friendship.
Hope you can collect stamps from every country in the World.
Good luck !