Students will get a voucher when they volunteer. We will habitually ask: Will someone cheat, such as registering for half an hour, but registering for two hours? Or find one? Related households? I didn't do it originally, but I got a record of volunteering?
The answer given to me by American friends is: absolutely not. In America, honesty is a very important social morality, and honesty education is an important part of civic education in schools. Don't lie, don't perjury, these American children have known the truth since childhood? Dafa? . Moreover, dishonest behavior will reduce a person's credit rating, which will inevitably be greatly affected in job hunting and consumer loans.
Some schools in the United States have clear requirements for students to be volunteers: whether high school students can get graduation certificates, in addition to the requirements of credits and grades, they must also serve the society for 60 hours free of charge, and every 20 hours can be counted as 1 credit.
The school will include community service as a compulsory course for students, and will also provide opportunities for students to volunteer. Therefore, various holidays have become a good opportunity for students to volunteer. In hospitals, rehabilitation centers for the disabled, activity centers for the elderly, kindergartens, gas stations, fast food restaurants, supermarkets and so on. Students can be seen everywhere.
There are many kinds of voluntary services for American students: going to the rescue center to cook for the homeless and distribute food to them; At some intersections, students carry plastic buckets to raise money for the disabled; Go to the Red Cross Rescue Center for a charity sale in a disaster area at home and abroad; Participate in activities to save endangered animals; Join overseas volunteer work, go to underdeveloped countries to teach or teach English to children in disaster areas. Beichuan County, the hardest hit area of the Sichuan earthquake in China in 2008, received some? Little foreigner? . They volunteered there for a month in a down-to-earth and diligent manner. Many high schools or universities also provide tuition subsidies, credits or other assistance to students who have served in the American Volunteer Corps.
A girl I know joined the volunteer army when she was studying in Canada. A good friend of hers wants to go to the University of Toronto Medical School. According to the regulations of the school, she must continue to be a volunteer in the hospital for 5,000 hours during her high school and undergraduate period to prove her patience, love and perseverance in medical care. Influenced and driven by friends, girls majoring in mass media do not exist. Volunteers exchange credits? Question, I also apply to be a hospital volunteer.
The whole application process is almost harsh. First of all, we should meet the volunteer service time of 10 hours per week, and this hospital needs three and a half hours to go back and forth from her school by car. Secondly, the application process is complicated and cumbersome. I need a telephone interview first, and then I have to go to the hospital to interview the volunteer supervisor to explain my original intention and specialty of volunteering. If you get a positive answer one week after the interview, you need to be vaccinated twice within two weeks (the cost must be self-care). This can not only prevent volunteers from transmitting diseases to patients, but also protect their health. When all procedures are completed and volunteers report to the hospital, they need to undergo a one-day detailed training and sign a lengthy code of conduct for volunteers. The guide covers everything, including not wearing perfume during hospital to prevent patients from being allergic.
Even so, what is the number of volunteers in major hospitals in Canada? Overcrowded? Many applicants often have to wait a year or two to get a vacancy; Once volunteer service begins, many volunteers will continue to contribute their love and time for several years or even decades.
The enrollment of most medical universities in the United States has clear regulations: if the students applying for admission have not done a certain number of volunteers in hospitals or old-age care institutions, no matter how good your grades are, they will not be considered. Because the school believes that people who study medicine must first have the spirit of dedication and service to others.
That year, the neighbor's children entered the medical university. They have a lot of homework, and they have to find time to volunteer between schools, hospitals and nursing homes. They are so busy that they only sleep for three or four hours every day. I asked him if it was necessary. He answered affirmatively: Very necessary! Because only students who have personally experienced this arduous process and are willing to choose medical majors will be truly full of humanitarianism, love and awe, and will not hesitate to save patients in the future.
According to statistics, half of Americans spend about 100 hour on voluntary work every year, which is equivalent to 1 500,000 people in the United States, and do1hour on voluntary social service every three to four days. Many Americans think? The responsibility of service begins with the individual, not the government? . This helps students to establish a sense of serving the society and others, even if it is a little mandatory, at least? Subjectively for yourself, objectively for others? Effect. Over time, it has become a personal habit, a corporate responsibility, a moral code and a social fashion.