Non-profit organization is created to achieve various social, charitable, cultural, educational, scientific purposes, in order to protect the health of citizens, development of physical culture and sports, satisfaction of spiritual and other non-material needs of citizens, protection of rights, legitimate interests of citizens and organizations, providing legal assistance, as well as for other purposes aimed at achieving public benefits.
Examining the history of volunteering, it is possible to notice that a large number of citizens, irrespective of education level, income size, standard of living always took part in volunteering. People became volunteers regardless of religious, age, racial criteria. Over time, volunteerism is gaining in popularity.
Forms of Volunteer Activity
The federal law “About charitable activity and volunteering (volunteering)” accurately establishes that citizens have the right to carry out their volunteer activity individually or united, with or without formation of the organization, and also nobody has the right to limit their freedom of choice of the purposes of this activity.
Therefore, like any activity volunteering can be in an organized or unorganized form, carried out by a group of people or independently. Unorganized volunteering can take the form of a one-time, one-time, episodic assistance to a population in need. One-time volunteer activities may include events and actions. Organized volunteering (volunteering), on the other hand, is usually a regular activity, which can be carried out with the help of non-profit organizations. Such activities are carried out on a permanent basis, and in the course of such activities the social, cultural, economic, and environmental problems of society are solved as much as possible.