“Embrace Volunteering" is a project whose main objectives are to carry out voluntary activities and raise awareness about environmental problems. Due to pollution, human’s irresponsibility and greed, planet Earth has been suffering huge changes over time. These changes result in the destruction of species, their habitats and more recently the formation of plastic islands in the oceans. Environmental volunteering allows different people to get together to help in causes, like clean-up spaces, plant trees, etc. During this year we have participated in an environmental volunteer program , organized by an Environmental NGO - ASPEA, not only because we enjoy participating but also to get more knowledge about these kind of activities and the problems they intent to solve. Therefore we decided to involve other teenagers in environmental volunteering. In order to do that, we started by conducting questionnaires in our schools, to investigate if students have already participated in volunteer activities. We also asked if they would be interested in participating in an activity that we have intentions of carrying out. The 207 questionnaires applied resulted in 59 students motivated to participate in our activity, that will be organized by the end of May, in partnership with the city council. In the end, participants will be asked what they felt for being involved and what they think would motivate others to join volunteering initiatives. The outcomes of this project will be used to propose to the headmasters/principals of our schools to Embrace Volunteering annually by organizing more similar activities.
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