What Community Work Means

Community work is a planned process to mobilise communities to use their own social structures and resources to address their own problems and achieve their own objectives. Community work focuses on participation and fosters empowerment, emancipation and change through collective action.

What type of work is community service?

Community service is unpaid work that benefits people and organizations in the community. It could mean helping out at a nonprofit agency, volunteering for a special project in your school, or doing something positive to improve your neighborhood.

What are some examples of community service?

• Wildlife conservation. …
• Volunteer with children. …
• Marine conservation. …
• Teaching. …
• Public health. …
• Animal care. …
• Women’s empowerment. …
• Sports.