It may feel scary before you get down to it, because you may think that you don’t have enough experience, but when you actually start doing things and receive support from the organizers, it gets better and easier.

I don't wish to impose volunteering on anyone, it's everyone's personal choice. There's a great movie called Pay It Forward loosely based on an eponymous novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde chronicling the life of an ordinary American teenager. One day the protagonist’s teacher assigns the class to put into action a plan that will change the world for the better. The boy suggested an unorthodox approach of "paying it forward" which means the recipient of a favor does a favor for three others who, in turn, will help the next three, and so on. According to his plan, the number of good deeds would thus be growing exponentially. I think life would be better if everyone just did kind things for others.

Assignments by foundations come in very different shapes and forms spanning a variety of subjects, from medical law to environmental and economic security, and you can't just pick every one of them because your competencies may be lacking. It's important to understand this at the very outset.

Pro bono projects can provide an opportunity to find the right balance between the matters one has to deal with at work and one’s activities that they do 'at the promptings of the spirit’ by carrying out their assignments and helping people.

At first, I wasn’t even sure I would be able to find the time to do these jobs. After completing my first job, however, I gradually got used to it, and I even felt a tinge of thrill: I am now eager to take on increasingly more complicated and ambitious challenges.