Need or Altruism: A Study about Ticketing and Staying in the volunteering of the Child Cancer Institute

Débora Regina Czupriniaki, Osvaldo Daniel dos Santos Pinheiro

Volunteer work. Motivation. Childhood cancer.

Volunteer work, in recent years, has been synonymous with citizenship and solidarity, receiving increasing prominence in organized society. Thus, in this article, motivational theories are raised to understand volunteering. This study focuses on volunteers who work at the Instituto do Câncer Infantil (ICI), a non-profit organization that serves children from all over the country. The study aims to identify the reasons for engagement, based on the following hypothesis: in critical situations, do people get involved in voluntary work out of necessity or altruism? The research is exploratory in nature, using the questionnaire technique and, through quantitative analysis, seeks to answer the hypothesis, identifying the reasons for volunteering at ICI. Among the most relevant results of the survey, it was shown that 75.00% of volunteers understand that voluntary work is not something that can be done for their own benefit. It can be seen that 95.00% of these feel the importance of their own volunteer work. It is also noted that 60.00% of the volunteers said that there are personal reasons for exercising voluntary work. And when asked, it is gratifying to see people's satisfaction with their voluntary work, 90.00% said yes.

10.22161/ijaers.73.45