Tanya Matanova
Abstract: The rapidly changing world and the unexpected twists in everyday life (loss of a job, pandemics, disasters, etc.) are some of the characteristics, of the “symptoms” of precariousness, of precarious life. In times of sudden changes and crises when a person has no relatives and people from the social circle to rely on, he/she usually accepts the help of more distant people, strangers, and volunteers. Based on the answers of interviewed Bulgarian volunteers, sharing their experience of the privileges of volunteering and their ideas for implementing volunteering as a strategy for dealing with precarization, this text aims to find and present interrelations and commonalities between volunteering and precarity, in the sense of finding a way out of uncertain situations.
Keywords: volunteering, precarity, coping strategies, insecurity, precarious life
