Szkolne Koła Caritas jako forma współczesnego wolontariatu

Abstract

Caritas School Clubs are modern form of Christian voluntary work of children and youth. Their members on the all levels of education (primary schools, secondary schools and high schools) are involved in a lot of charity actions organised for students, local community, parish, diocese and the victims of cataclysms. So their main goal is to obey the commandment of love and to help people in need. There are the following features of people involved in Caritas School Clubs: freedom, disinterestedness, regularity, the spirit of service, personal attitude to people and relations among them and religious motivation of work. Voluntary work in Caritas School Clubs let students develop altruistic attitudes and shape such values as civic sense of responsibility and participation in social life, concentring on a person, paying attention to the weakest and the most suffering people, disinterestedness in solidary acts, respect for other people.