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How Helping Others Helps You |
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Providing Educational Support, Personal Items, and Luggage to Foster Kids |
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Did you know that helping others makes you feel better about yourself? Research has shown that we feel better about ourselves when we engage in humanitarian acts. Doing so gives us a sense of purpose and meaning in our lives. We are social creatures and derive pleasure from being altruistic. So be selfish! Do something that is going to make you feel good– donate your time, your money, your skills, your thoughts, your guidance, your stuff, etc, to those in need. Try to find something that you enjoy and can be committed to. Think about it and be honest with yourself. For example, you can become a mentor to foster youth in your area. Foster youth desperately need caring mentors! However, become a mentor only if you enjoy kids and can provide them with a stable relationship– they don’t need to feel disliked or abandoned again. Plus, you want to enjoy what you are doing. Not so big on kids, but still want to help? Donate your time to help with fundraising for a group that offers services to foster youth. Don’t like fundraising, but love tutoring? Help foster youth in get ahead in school by being an afterschool tutor. You get the picture! There are lots of agencies that serve foster youth. Do a little research and find something the fits you. Whatever you choose, helping others will make you feel better!
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