For every hour of help you give, you also receive an hour of help.  In addition, you are making a difference in someone’s life – whether it’s giving a ride to a person who doesn’t have a car, tutoring a student, translating, sewing or helping with computer problems.

You can also learn new skills, make friends, and get to know your way around your community much better.

Some ways people have used TimeBanking to achieve their goals include increased neighborhood safety, community renewal, health improvement, mutual support for single-parent families, peer self-help, integrating people with physical and learning disabilities, respite for caregivers, improved intergenerational understanding, learning opportunities and environmental clean-ups – to name a few.

If you like to give time to your community, TimeBanking is a way to get something back in exchange for your time. If you want to build a network of support within your neighborhood or community at large, TimeBanking can help you do exactly that. Instead of paying professionals to look after your children, care for aging parents, and do the work that family and neighbors used to do for one another, TimeBank members do those things for each other.

Last updated on October 21, 2010 by getavision admin