Community Service is a new experience for the majority …show more content…
The vast amount of our population today is consumed in our jobs, cell phones, social lives, all along with entertaining social media. “Engagement in community service during the college years is predicated on personal and contextual factors and can serve as a means to instill in students the values essential to their participation as compassionate citizens in a diverse society.” As a result, people fail to have any understanding of what’s happening in the bigger picture surrounding us. Engaging in this event can allow students to expose themselves in different cultures or lifestyles they may come in contact with. “Additionally, differences in relationships of variable groups to having performed community service, required or not, would suggest different kinds of supports for performing voluntary community services”. Along with volunteering and helping those in need, community service can also benefit the area in which we live It can provide students with a sense of compassion and sympathy for others as well as making them understand that problems don’t just occur on the other side of the world, bu in their own towns as