A few aspects will be key for the development of volunteering, including school volunteering:

• the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in grassroots actions aimed at helping the needy, providing impetus for initiatives such as Visible Hand (Widzialna Ręka) - local facebook groups providing help to people in quarantine or isolation. Such initiatives enliven the ideals of volunteering (although, once again, this is more general than just youth volunteering) and can be significant for their development.
• On one hand, pandemic weakened volunteer activism in schools (due to lockdowns and remote learning). On the other hand, cross-generational assistance for the elderly by the youth became visible during the quarantine. A great example of such engagement is the Volunteering Center of the Warsaw Uprising Museum which organizes meetings between the youth and the last few surviving soldiers of the Home Army who fought in the Warsaw Rising in 1944.

A slightly distinct phenomenon to classic forms of volunteering is social activism, within which young people devote their time to social issues they find important, working in the name of personal values and in a volunteer fashion. Such activities include, among others, support for refugees (both legal Ukrainian immigrants in Poland, as well as those trying to cross the Polish-Belarussian border), activism to arrest the climate catastrophe, and – more recently – support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Such activism is increasingly energetic and often disrupt daily life of the society at large, such as when the Last Generation blocks streets, or when university students occupy the university campus to protest Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip. As such, those activities edge towards civil disobedience and attract criticism from the society at large and governmental institutions. Setting aside such critique, this kind of activism provokes a wider question about youth activism and its relationship to standardly-understood volunteering. This question is related to analyses and discussions among cultural anthropologists and culture scholars regarding shifting culture codes surrounding volunteering. It is supposed that residual codes linking volunteering to the moral demand for bringing aid to others are slowly losing traction, and are being replaced by more dominant codes surrounding an active lifestyle. It is also important that, especially among younger generations, new emergent codes are of increasing importance, by addressing new issues. In the future, they may influence our understanding of volunteering, including it in the context of the need to fix the world, and in revolutionary activism.