It is common practice for some students to take a gap year between high school and university in order to do charitable work abroad in underdeveloped countries. What are the advantages and disadvantages for young people of doing volunteer work?

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Seeing students dropping a year to serve community services in developing countries has become usual. In many people’s perspectives, they may find it useless to waste a year for non-academic activities, while others appreciate their heart to help other people.
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gap year working as a volunteer. In my opinion, there are two advantages for joining charitable campaigns as students can improve their maturity and many life skills. In the recent years, several students have found the lifestyle in the universities significantly different from that of the schools
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and the reason is that they have to take care more of themselves living in the campus.
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, doing charities before attending the colleges or universities can develop their abilities to tackle the work and life and become more mature in order to stay in the
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countries.
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, those volunteers have to improve their interpersonal skills and life skills.
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, students organizing the volunteer work will have to learn to communicate
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their groups and the developers, increase their friendliness in order to get along well with the colleagues, and so much more.
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, the disadvantages of not going to the universities after graduation are the misunderstanding among the adults and the adaptation to the whole new societies. If the students don’t take 1-year leave, they can have the opportunities to study with their friends and acquaintances, but they have already lost those chances. Even though it is good to make new friends, studying with our best buddies is better.
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, the companies and the society can superficially judge them as unqualified students because they attend the universities late. To sum up,
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community services, which can be seen as a common practice in our present day, may teach us to become better adults, the effects of misunderstanding and changes are undeniable.
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