Watkins, a 3.8 GPA student at CHHS, is the daughter of Keith and Terry Watkins. In her essay, Watkins included statistics of youth volunteer efforts. They gave an estimated 3.5 hours per week, totaling 2.4 billion hours of volunteer time. Voluntarism is offering the time and energy to serve someone else's needs. By looking toward the needs of others and contributing to change, voluntarism decreases suffering and heart ache, while the volunteers gain skill, joy, self-esteem and changes in their own lives.
Volunteers work to improve the lives of others and, in return, improve their own.
Sanders is the son of Harry and Becky Sanders. Among American High School Students. His essay encouraged volunteer effort at any age. Just as the former president urges youth people to get involved, adults should take this challenge also. The youth may be the future of our country, but voluntarism has a need for everyone today.