There are several reasons youth can be motivated to take action for being socially responsible one reason is by become a big brother or big sister to help children, just because they want to make a difference or because some youth may know how those children feel and want to help them. Another reason for youth to be motivated is that draws can be held for doing community work, for example for every five or ten hours your name will be put into a draw for a prize donated by the community for helping. Also another reason is school credits, high school students need volunteer credits and that may motivate a lot of youth to participate in volunteer activities, and some might even like it so much that they will motivate more youth to get involved to.
My personal take on social responsibility is that more youth need to be more socially responsible because it motivates others to be socially responsible, for example, if a teenager is volunteering not just other teenagers might volunteer, but others because if they see a teenager being socially responsible then they can do it to because teenagers have a bad reputation for being lazy. Also I think that some people just don't care about being socially responsible, but it is possible to have fun, for example me and my friends had a car wash to raise money for charity, and we had music and had water fights it was so fun and we did it all while being socially responsible.
To get my self motivated is to having fun with my friends, school credits, and just helping in general I know I am not really socially responsible but I could be, I would like to motivate my friends to help motivate myself and have fun to help people. I am not much of a leader, but in a group we can lead each other especially my friends, so i think if we really wanted to we could influence and motivate more youth to become socially responsible.
To me there are several issues that are important to me, on is our community more youth need to get involve in the community, because there is a massive lack of socially responsibility in my community, also people who do not want to be social responsible or people who just don't care should have more respect for people who are being socially responsible, for example my baseball team was raising money for provincials, and some kids were stealing some of the money we raised, and finally the motivation to be socially responsible should be higher, people who need help for anything can just go to the school and ask for volunteers and it is most likely they will get some.
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It's disheartening to know that when efforts are made to raise money that it can be taken...but you touched on a key point: you don't have to be a "high level" leader in your youth group, but to work together, is, in my opinion, equally as important. And, having fun is a GREAT motivator!!
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