1. News Article – benefiting
the economy
Volunteering has a much larger impact on society than most
people think, according to one researcher.
Each year, nearly 1 billion people are engaged in volunteering
worldwide. Some countries volunteer much more than others.
There are three types of value that volunteering creates:
economic, private and social.
Economic value is the easiest to understand: when volunteers
give up their time to paint a building or feed the homeless, there is economic
value in the output they are producing. How much would we need to pay for these
jobs to be done, if there were no volunteers?
Economists agree that volunteer work is equivalent to 1.5% of
GDP in the UK.
Questions –
1.
According the article does volunteering benefit society?
2.
According the article how many people volunteer worldwide
every year?
3.
According the article, what percentage of GDP is produced
from volunteer work?
4.
According the article, what examples of volunteering were
given?
5.
According the article, without volunteer work, what
wouldn’t get done?
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