Your opinions are important
Involving the community help have great ideas and feedback. It provides better outcomes for all the stakeholders’ community ownership and lower project cost. It acts as a two-way information sharing tool since it engages the community thereby reducing information dissemination. It involves everyone regardless of the qualifications one have in terms of education decision provided
Help in building a safe, secure and cohesive community.
Enterprise, community, the voluntary sector is the critical factor in the regeneration of deprived communities through government cooperation. This creates a link in the communities thereby giving opportunities to come together — example through the sports institution cooperation and community identification.
It enhances civic engagement
Individuals can make a meaningful contribution to their visions of social well-being. Since they are drawn to common community interest and public participation through community integration which suggest community ties. The civic activities include voting in elections and serving on a jury.
It is delivering of public goods and services that are excellent.
When volunteering good services may be provided to the community especially when there is failure by the government. This is done to ensure that the services provided meet the standards that are required. It is done by a non-governmental organisation where they plan and design the means of delivery.
It leads to sustainable development.
Sustainable development will take place without any social and environmental factors through reaching to the community; there is a significance contribution in environmental protection and energy saving areas from the projects are instituted by the government. For instance, I am offering simple instruction to the people using power always to put off unnecessary lights delayed washing and drying of the clothes. Also to the people destroying the forest to acquire firewood and charcoal make them aware that destruction of the forest leads to pollution and change in climate.
Response to climate change.
Various programs alert and instil knowledge and know-how to the community everywhere to meet the challenges of global climate change and to also address environmental threats that may lead to natural disasters such as flooding earthquake and tsunamis. This warns the community and makes them aware when they are interacting with the community. For example, in India, an organisation known as UNV trained 500000 villages to create an early warning system. By doing this, it has resulted in resistance to climate change.
Economic benefits
It helps in reducing the government burden to the community through the provision of services. Through the organisations of volunteers, they have resulted in economic growth through the job opportunities that creates to the community people when they engage with them. It helps to identify the problems that are facing the communities concerning the standards of living at this moment enabling them to create a job.
Help in the identification of emerging issues in the community.
Through the offering of service to the community the organisation get involved and identifies the problem, the neighbourhood is undergoing thus coming out with the possible solutions. These organisation may move further to the areas that the government has not been offering services. It may also include services such as health and development of infrastructure.
It helps to increase access to health workers in remote areas
Through outreach, the organisation can identify the number of health workers is available to any health centre typically found in rural areas. This help to know how many patients are assigned to one worker. By evaluating this result, the government can allocate more workers to those areas. This intern help in the improvement of services. Also, non-organisation may start its own health care.