Improves overall Health:
Better mental health: Reduces stress, anxiety, and depression while lowering mortality risk. Helping others activates the brain's reward system, releasing "feel-good" chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin, leading to a "helper's high". This can lift your mood, reduce symptoms of stress, depression, and anxiety, and boost self-esteem and confidence.
Better Physical Health: Many volunteer opportunities involve physical activity, which can help you stay fit, improve strength and balance, and lower blood pressure. Studies have even shown that volunteers may live longer and have a lower risk of heart disease.