to volunteer (verb)
volunteer (noun)
volunteer (noun)
voluntary (adjective)
voluntarily (adverb)
To volunteer means to freely offer up your time and service to help. A volunteer might offer to water a neighbor's plants while he's on vacation or sign up to serve dinner at a local homeless shelter.
When it came into usage circa 1600, the noun volunteer referred to a person who offered himself up for military service. It wasn't until a few decades later that the word was first used in a non-military sense. And a little over a hundred years after that, volunteer expanded from functioning as just a noun to also playing the role of verb. A volunteer is someone who volunteers: willingly performs a task or offers a service.
An active citizen is a citizen who takes an active role in the community (as in crime prevention and neighborhood watch). "Active citizenship" is the philosophy that citizens should work towards the betterment (improvement) of their community through economic participation, public service, volunteer work, and other such efforts to improve life for all citizens. In this vein, schools in some countries provide citizenship education.
Civic engagement is the positive involvement in the affairs (social, political, and economic) of the home town, country, state ... Civic engagement can take many forms, from individual volunteerism to organizational involvement to electoral participation. It can include efforts to directly address an issue, work with others in a community to solve a problem or interact with the institutions of representative democracy.
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The writing below was found on the FACEBOOK page on VOLONTARIATO. It is from Wikipedia. Both can be seen in English, but this can help you write in Italian as well.
Il volontariato è un'attività libera e gratuita svolta per ragioni private e personali, che possono essere di solidarietà, di giustizia sociale, di altruismo o di qualsiasi altra natura.
Può essere rivolto a persone in difficoltà, alla tutela della natura e degli animali, alla conservazione del patrimonio artistico e culturale. Nasce dalla spontanea volontà dei cittadini di fronte a problemi non risolti, o non affrontati, o mal gestiti dallo Stato e dal mercato. Per questo motivo il volontariato si inserisce nel "terzo settore" insieme ad altre organizzazioni che non rispondono alle logiche del profitto o del diritto pubblico.
Il volontariato può essere prestato individualmente in modo più o meno episodico, o all'interno di una organizzazione strutturata che può garantire la formazione dei volontari, il loro coordinamento e la continuità dei servizi.
