Why is community service is important in todays world?

Community service defined as selfless acts of kindness have been passed through the
generations with the same undertones. Community service mostly done with pure heart and
to spread love amongst people. Those who taken on community service projects have greatly
benefited from their work by gaining memorable experiences and building unique character
traits. Shortly community service has been a forever and long service done through giving
people of communities in the effort to bring up their neighbourhood. Most frequently
community service done to most people to with full of love ,so that the equivalence within
human beings felt by everyone. Once Winston Churchill said we make a living by what we
get, but we make a life by what we give. We should learn to be spread love in others life
through this community service. Community service mostly welcomed by the world because
numerous benefits are gained through this noble attitude. Its stated in book Experiential
Education for Community Development by Paul S. Denise: Ian M. Harris that community
service playing vital role in community development.

Great human and noble prize winner Mother Tressa worldy known for her kind
hearted character n with great helping sense. Mother Thressas community service is
countless and help a lot of people from different kind of races in this world. Once Albert
Einstein said only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile ,this quote mostly suitable for
mother Teressa. Community service indirectly help people in character building. For instance
by doing community service people learn to have pure heart, guts to help others and great
helping sense. Community service will help a person to have patience , sympathy and more
noble values. Community service at elderly homes and at some of the places will help
students have great character building. The students act in community service will show
immensely in their character and by involving in volunteering projects will help people gain
numerous experience which will lead to great life with moral values. By involving in
volunteer or community service people learn to understand other peoples situation and the
willingness to help them. Shortly its can be said community service make a person selfless n
kind while for some people community service becoming as a model for their character trait
of being kind and selfless and been able to receive that satisfaction.
Through community service , people who need an outlet for their character trait of
being kind and selfless, have been able to receive that satisfaction through this. Community
service will make a person realised that caring has the gift of making the ordinary as a
special. The caring trait which hidden in everybodys heart will be shown through the
community service.
Besides that by involving in community service people could see life from a variety of
different angels and at last the community service giving every person humility for their own
lives. Actually through community service people learn to put smile on others life n did
something could make others life happy forever. Indeed community service help them find a
way that could change not just their life but also life of other. Once Mother Teresa said Love
cannot remain by itself it has no meaning , love has to be put into action and that action is
service. Shortly community service will help people to spread love. Involving in community
service teaches compassion and understanding. Through community service people learn to
relish their time and enjoy their time to the fullest. By doing community service , people will
be rewarded with priceless experience. Community service also provides physical rewards
such as reducing stress as reported by the experts that if someone focus on someone other
than yourself ,it interrupts usual tension producing patterns. Meanwhile the mental rewards
gained through community service are make us healthier such as creating good mood and
emotion like being optimism and strengthen the immune system. Its stated in book
integrating Service Learning and Multicultural Education in College by (Carolyn R.
O'Grady and Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000) that community service learning
without a focused attention to the complexity of racial and cultural difference can reinforce
dominant hegemonic cultural ideology. So its can be believed that community service can be
used as great tool to create strong bond within people.
As stated before people involving in community service gaining beneficial experience
throughout their life. Meanwhile it brings people together such as uniting people from diverse
backgrounds to work toward a common goal and lastly helping to build teamwork which will
lasts forever. Community service also understanding community and at last building
understanding nation too. Indeed community service promotes growth and self esteem.
Shortly its can be said community service encourages civic responsibility and its a
kind of investment in our community and the people who live in it. So community service
should be applied frequently and its should be carried away by all kinds of people.

Experiential Education for Community Development Paul S. Denise; Ian
M. Harris. Greenwood Press, 1989
Integrating Service Learning and Multicultural Education in Colleges
and Universities ,Carolyn R. O'Grady and Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
2000