Text |Shenzhen Special Zone Daily commentator Zhuang Yuan
In this era of "everything can be rolled", even volunteer service can "roll" up new tricks. Recently, reports about volunteer service hours that can be purchased with money have aroused the attention of the Internet.
As the society attaches more and more importance to volunteer service, how to quickly accumulate volunteer service hours has become a topic of great concern. However, the survey found that some organizations began to play "sidekicks" and read the "crooked scriptures" of volunteer service hours.
On some online platforms, volunteer hours are "bought and sold" as commodities and are clearly priced. Some advertised "298 yuan for a project, you can accumulate 8 hours of volunteer service" and other advertisements, and some posted screenshots of the cumulative time of successful operation to advertise that they are authentic and credible. Looking closely at these projects in the name of "volunteering", some of them are paid research activities, and you can get hours of volunteer service by "playing".Some only need to buy "agricultural assistance packages" and "public welfare packages", and they can get service hours without leaving home.
Coincidentally. Not long ago, the Sichuan Provincial Youth Volunteer Service Center and the Sichuan Youth Volunteer Association reported a number of cases of volunteer service violations. The reporter combed through these cases of violations and found that most of them were fraudulent about the length of volunteer service. Various reports and cases show that buying and selling volunteer service hours has become a hidden and common phenomenon, and there are not a few organizations and individuals who obtain volunteer service hours in an improper way.
Volunteer service refers to the public welfare behavior of voluntarily dedicating time, intelligence, physical strength, skills, etc., to help others and serve the society without the purpose of receiving remuneration. The word "volunteer" emphasizes the principle of voluntariness, equality and integrity. By participating in the project, volunteers can also enhance their sense of responsibility to the society and others, and cultivate noble moral sentiments. When public welfare is alienated into naked money transactions, it is undoubtedly a blasphemy of the spirit of volunteerism, affecting the image of volunteer service, and a kind of damage to the entire volunteer service environment, and it is suspected of violating laws and regulations.
Why are volunteer hours reduced to "business experience"?Naturally, there is a market where there is demand. Taking the first focus on middle school students as an example, many places have included volunteer service in the comprehensive quality evaluation of primary and secondary school students, which has become a "mandatory requirement" for primary and secondary school students. Due to the heavy workload and tight time constraints of students' Xi, and the difficulty of finding suitable volunteer service projects, some parents and students are willing to spend money to "take shortcuts". It is precisely in response to the anxious psychology and utilitarian mentality of individual parents that businesses with ulterior motives have discovered the "business opportunity" of profit-making and turned volunteer service hours into "commodities".
A glimpse of the whole leopard. In fact, not only primary and secondary school students have "just needs", but also universities and units in many places have similar requirements, and the volunteer service time is closely related to further education, awards, and promotions. When volunteering becomes a task, evolving into a "burden", or even alienated into a "business", it is obvious that it has long been off-topic, has changed its taste, and has degenerated into a false formalism. The fact that unscrupulous businesses can "exploit loopholes" so easily also exposes the problems of non-standard release of volunteer service projects and lax control of volunteer platforms.
To deal with the chaos of buying and selling volunteer service hours, it is necessary to prescribe the right medicine. Relevant departments may wish to listen to opinions extensively, improve the design of the volunteer service system, establish a more diverse and flexible volunteer service evaluation system, let volunteer service play its due role, and make the volunteer spirit of "dedication, fraternity, mutual assistance, and progress" more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. At the same time, it is also necessary to intensify the investigation and crackdown on fraudulent volunteer service fraud, plug the loopholes in a timely manner, and urge all units and platforms to strengthen review and management. Of course, the majority of students and parents should also put an end to the luck mentality, and do not lose integrity for the sake of shortcuts.