📜 Chapter 1: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship
What can volunteering help you gain?
Correct answer: Useful skills, friends and contacts
✓ Useful skills, friends and contacts
B A reduction in income tax
C Priority for government jobs
D Credit toward military service
💡 Explanation
Volunteering is recommended as a good way to pick up skills and build friendships and contacts.
Key facts to remember
- Millions of volunteers donate their time without pay
- Volunteers help at schools, food banks and other charities
- Volunteers also encourage newcomers to integrate
- Volunteering builds skills, friendships and contacts
Why this is the answer
From the official Discover Canada study guide — 1.4.5 Helping Others in the Community:
Millions of people in Canada give their time as volunteers. Nobody pays them; they simply choose to help. Volunteers support people in need, lend a hand at their child's school, work at a food bank or another charity, or encourage newcomers to settle in. Helping others is one of the responsibilities of citizenship. It also gives something back to the volunteer: practical skills, new friends and useful contacts. So volunteering helps the community and the volunteer at the same time.
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