Abstract:
This study examines the attitude of Dhaka University students towards voluntary services on campus and across the country. In addition, it explores the possible reasons that avert the students to participate more in voluntary activities. This paper uses close-ended survey questionnaires and distributed survey forms to one hundred residential and non-residential students of Dhaka University. This paper argues that the humanitarian approach, status and prestige in the campus and community, effective use of spare time, and work experience are the essential motivating factors of volunteering. Furthermore, to make curriculum vitae (CV) attractive, religious beliefs and responsibility to the community are also the catalysts of voluntary services at the Dhaka University campus. However, favoritism, engagement in social media, politics in the voluntary organizations, and Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination trend are the significant causes that impede students from participating in voluntary services.
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