... What is little known are the underlying motives that inspire a person to become an active citizen, volunteering for a cause. In order to learn what it is that motivates a person to volunteer, an in depth interview must be conducted to probe an active citizen for why it is that they volunteer. In this paper, I will report on a life history interview I conducted with Lillian, an active citizen who volunteers for an AIDS nonprofit organization. ...
There are four central themes I have formulated from Lillian’s interview that were the catalyst to her becoming an active citizen. ...
While interviewing Lillian, I began to observe a pattern emerging among her statements about becoming active in the AIDS education cause. ... The goal of this paper was to gather and document a life history to discover the variables that lead to volunteerism and activism. The history provides subjective evidence of the effects volunteerism involvement have had on individuals lives from psychological and social perspectives. This life history interview I conducted also taught me that upbringing, major life events and personality were needed to be the catalyst for Lillian’s activism.
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