They Were Volunteering – They Just didn’t Know It

When asked if they had volunteered, only a few students raised their hands. Ten minutes later, almost all of them had their hands in the air.

What if the problem isn’t that people don’t volunteer – but that they don’t recognize what they are doing is volunteering?

In this reflective piece, Voices Co-section Editor Michaela Rýgrová explores how we define volunteering, why language matters and what happens when helping others shifts from something we do to something we are.