Students' life: Reward=Money?
By Aggie Yan, Joana Kong, Lucia Vong and Rain Leong


Volunteers were busy in the bazaar held on November 4 and 5 in Taipa.

Looking after studies, jobs and also voluntary work, this kind of life is well known to many students.

Nowadays, it seems that studying is not the only thing students, especially college students, would look after. This reporter group carried out an investigation among university students in Macau. "On the topic of Collegian Joining Voluntary Work." According to the result, 80 percent of them have to cope with both their studies and part-time jobs. About 83 percent prefer to do part-time jobs than voluntary work as 41 percent of the students surveyed earn more than MOP2, 500 a month.

Are students only concerned about money rewards when they spend their time and effort on something? Is it impossible to participate in any voluntary activities or charitable organizations in this material world? The answer will be "No". Since there are about 30 percent of the collegians who have part-time jobs, but also are able to work as volunteers.

"I find a great pleasure in hosting different activities even as a volunteer sometimes," said Lam Chi Seng, who had been the former president of the Sports Association of University of Macau- Students' Union (UMSU) for five years and former director general of the Macau Universitarian Sports Association for four years in his school life. He mentioned that he made lots of friends and also acquired deep knowledge about government departments which he would not have been able

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