What Is Volunteerism?

Volunteerism is a well-known noble activity that is widespread all over the world. Many people tend to socialize in order to find the purpose of themselves and volunteering helps in making a great avenue for self-finding. It is essentially good to help other people in order to give something back to the community. Volunteering activities are generally conducted by school organizations that aims in helping people and in organizing activities that would help in the formation of man’s social welfare.

In the State of the World’s Volunteerism Report “Transforming Governance” (2015), states that there are more than 1 billion people volunteer globally, the majority of them are working in their own countries. Added to that, in the Philippine context,

Volunteerism in Bukidnon takes in another form called “Pahina”. In which, community members would gather to help in cleaning and working to the Barangay extents. Bukidnon have far-flung areas in which indigenous people are mostly settled, the programs of the government aren’t plenty enough to reach those area. In line with that, the problem awakens the heart of many volunteer groups. Many volunteer groups came and they conducted volunteering activities and handed goods and services towards the benefit of the people living in Bukidnon.

This study is to strengthen and promote knowledge and understanding of volunteerism and its influences to the student leaders. This situation interests the researcher since volunteerism is an active way of supporting the promotion of social awareness. Through the engagement of volunteers, student leaders enable to further its reach to the broader skills and knowledge. This research may promote the participation of university students in the volunteer program to enhance the understanding of helping others. Likewise, this research may promote influences into other school and universities to engage their students in volunteering activities.

It is therefore the purpose of this study to examine the influences of volunteerism to the student leaders. Furthermore, it would look into what perceptions student leaders do have regarding

Specifically, it sought to answer the following question:

1. What are the influences of volunteerism to the student leaders?

2. How student leaders do perceive volunteerism?

3. How did student leaders respond to and learn from their interactive relationships with other student volunteers?

Significance of the study

The result of the study will have ample and significant information that will benefit the student leaders, students, Office of the student Services, the University and the future researchers.

This study would benefit the student leaders of BukSU because they will have a lot more knowledge and confidence of themselves about volunteerism that they have an effective leadership skill. Also, it will assist them from encouraging other student leaders and students to engage in volunteering. The student leaders will have boundless skills that will surely be advantageous in the future in developing the community welfare.

It would also benefit the students of BukSU if they have enough knowledge on volunteering they will mould there mind to engage in activities and programs in school and in the community and would be able to find a new sort of interests, they would be confident that they make use of time