Hey you! Yes, you are reading this text now. We want to invite you. Shall we reflect together on the real need to have a job? Come on!

Are you the type of person who just fulfills your daily journey or are the one who takes the time to discover new points of view? Do you like to learn to relate to other people, try to understand realities different from yours? Do you believe that you can be useful to others, that your potential can cross borders, that you can help yourself and can also help someone else? How many questions! Well, without further delays, we at Eko Volunteers will show you 10 reasons how important you are to you, to the context you are in and to a whole society that welcomes you.

• YOUR KNOWLEDGE IS WORTH GOLD!

Each one has a very powerful HD inside itself that can store a series of important information: numerical data, words, illustrations, photos, images, languages, life experiences, feelings, places, tastes and many other things that our conscience does not show us immediately. Do you really believe that it is limited? Of course not! Your brain is smart, fast, strategic and can memorize as many things as necessary for you to grow brilliantly. Isn’t it amazing?! The coolest thing about all this is that you have the chance to expand it further by helping others, sharing with everyone what’s inside you. Try it!

• POTENTIALIZE YOUR SKILLS

As you practice everything you know, you can get closer to improvement. In addition, the feeling of doing all the actions correctly is contagious! Keep in mind that you can be a source of inspiration for many people who did not see situations as you or had difficulty seeing a particular scenario. Share your ideas!

• GET OUT OF YOUR BOX IMMEDIATELY

Do you swear that you are 100% satisfied with all your life experiences? Every day we learn new things, from different people and in different places. We live in society and this is great for our learning. Allow yourself to go through new situations, to question yourself more, to see more than one path to everything. We’re sure you’re creative enough to find more than one answer to everything. Think big, glimpse away, fly high! Invite someone to join you.

• INCREASE YOUR NETWORKING, MAKE NEW FRIENDSHIPS

All jobs expand your range of contacts, but volunteer programs take you to other airs, connect you with people you might not even think you would ever meet. And do you know why? Precisely because they have different realities, which can mean more than another name in your phonebook. They are true relics, they are real chances for growth and maturation;

• IMPROVE YOUR EMPATHY

When you are teaching or helping others, it’s important that you put yourself in their shoes. Remember that it’s normal to have difficulties or doubts at first and that someone helped you in the past, or maybe even gave you an opportunity to do everything differently. During a volunteering program, you exchange, give and receive. Learn how to do everything with joy and empathy.

• BE SOLIDARY

When you embrace the world, it will pay you back for sure. Learn to listen, to speak, to act with great gratitude for the opportunities given to you. Do not be hard on yourself or on those who depend on your goodwill. Being a volunteer is a donation of efforts, love and positive energies.

• WORK WITH SOMETHING YOU LIKE AND MAKE YOU SMILE

When choosing an activity to work in volunteering, see if it is really what you know or like to do. Focus on what you’re doing, always! Knowing its real importance in that context in which it is inserted is fundamental. Many people depend directly or indirectly on what you do. Make it all worthwhile, get involved!

• THE TRUE MEANING OF THE EXISTENCE OF WORK

When you work, you acquire a series of points in your score. This tool gives you greater autonomy, security, discipline, organization, sense of the collective, sense of space, responsibility and so on … There are so many positive things, that we could stay here for a long time. Furthermore, it is extremely important to know that you are the way you should be and that you can do whatever you want, with as much or less that you know, always teach and learn in all circumstances of life.

• LEAVE A LEGACY

There is nothing cooler than knowing that you helped, that it was part of someone’s life in a positive way. That you were crucial when the other needed a helping hand. There is nothing that pays for it. Nothing! We are here to add and to plus even more. Run after your goals, do something great, be the protagonist and not the secondary role.

• SHARE GRATITUDE

The magic of living is to always be grateful to everything we are and everything we have. Sometimes opportunities come when you least expect them. The start can happen at any time and you will never be 100% ready. When we have nothing else to add our life and the life of the others, we will have nothing else to do here. So be happy and give smiles to everyone.