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Long term commitment to Prosocial acts – 
The prosocial behaviour may take different forms like helping 
someone in need of money, protecting an animal or bird that is in 
trouble. Sometimes prosocial act may take the form of volunteering 
one’s life for a worthy cause, this requires a long period of time.
The efforts done by great personalities like Mother Teresa, Baba 
Amte and Medha Patkar. All forms of prosocial behaviour involve a 
moral issue like making a choice to act or not to act; this is where 
an individual is required to balance his self interest and moral 
integrity. The following section discusses all the related issues. 

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Volunteering – Certain problems like poverty, AIDS affected 
patients and their children have chronic and continuing problems.
Such problems require help over prolonged period. To provide help 
one must commit his efforts over weeks, months and may be even 
longer than that. For example after tsunami struck South Asia in 
2004, thousands of volunteers went to these locations to help the 
victims to rebuild and to deal with number of medical and legal 
problems. The government agencies tried to cope up with the 
calamity but volunteers did great work. We can easily assume that 
around the world reasonable numbers of people are engaged in the 
voluntary work. 
The five steps that are required to respond to emergency are 
also required when decision of volunteering is made. 
1) In order to help the homeless children, one must become aware 
of the problem 2) Interpreting the problem accurately so that some 
arrangement can be made that can provide shelter to homeless 
children on the street. 3) Assume a personal responsibility to help. 
4) Decide a course of action that can be taken, may be find out the 
organizations those who help such children. 5) Start actually 
working with such organizations. 
Individuals are motivated to give up a portion of their private 
life because they are convinced about the need of the hour. There 
are many more causes that really require attention and help but it is 
not possible to help all the needy. 
When individuals volunteer with time and money, they are 
identified by ethnic race and group so that different cultures 
become apparent. People with different background are motivated 
by specific concerns of the group.