Módulo X 3 Fomento del Espíritu Altruista

Greetings. Within the framework of social educational work, we present our diploma in competencies and skills for social and professional development from UNITEC. Now you are in the social leadership one and one of the most relevant topics we are going to touch on is the promotion of the altruistic spirit. In this case, I,

Lina Carrasco, academic head of the psychology program in Tegucigalpa, have the honor of sharing this beautiful topic with you. Let's begin. Okay, we're going to promote the altruistic spirit, so we need to start by defining what altruism is. Some of you have probably heard this word, others may never have heard it, but just with this image,

right? We can assume that altruism is when one person helps another. If you have heard a little more about this concept, you may know that altruism is when we sacrifice our own good, our own community, comfort in order to help other people. Well, we listen to the news, we watch television, even on

our social media like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, we spend time seeing news about those heroes, for example, these war heroes who leave the comfort of their home, their community, their family to go and help people they have never met in extremely difficult, complicated situations, in a desert, to fight. And we say, "Wow, these are

heroes." And this is the true example of altruism. We can also think about altruism, when we mention all these doctors who in 2020 came to be on the front lines, right?, of defense against the COVID-19 virus and this pandemic that caught us all off guard. We can say that these doctors, regardless of the

uncertainty, that no one truly knew how to treat this virus, we were all afraid, those of us who were at home, in universities, in our private companies, in our schools, in our local communities, in our public sector jobs, we were all afraid. But nevertheless, doctors, nurses, health professionals, even psychologists, went, right?, to the front line to care for