VOLUNTEERING AND PRECARITY
VOLUNTEERING AND PRECARITY

Summary/Abstract: The rapidly changing world and the unexpected twists in everyday life (loss of a job, pandemics, disasters, etc.) are some of the characteristics, of the “symptoms” of precariousness, of precarious life. In times of sudden changes and crises when a per son has no relatives and people from the social circle to rely on, he/she usually accepts the help of more distant people, strangers, and volunteers. Based on the answers of interviewed Bulgarian volunteers, sharing their experience of the privileges of volunteer ing and their ideas for implementing volunteering as a strategy for dealing with precarization, this text aims to find and present interrelations and commonalities between volunteering and precarity, in the sense of finding a way out of uncertain situations.

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