article_snippet: Peter Baines founded charity Hands Across the Water after spending 22 years with the NSW Police leading teams in response to acts of terrorism and natural disasters,  and says that many Australians approach charity work as a one-day-a-year commitment. '
article_snippet: If people think that people are going to go to a charity and create significant change in one day then people are naive at best, and arrogant at worst,' Peter Baines told Daily Mail Australia.
article_snippet: In Peter Baines new book, Doing Good for Doing Good, Peter Baines says that people can be a 'waste of space' when people volunteer if people aren't committed to doing something of value, and are only interested in how people charity work makes people look.
article_snippet: but it's just unrealistic to be effective in one day,' Peter Baines said.
article_snippet: I was naive, I thought that if we built children a home all children problems would go away,' Peter Baines said.
article_snippet: Peter Baines realised that simply giving money and leaving money was not an option, or an effective way to create change in the lives of the children.
article_snippet: Peter Baines said that many Australians approach charity work as a one-day-a-year commitment . '
highlights_snippet: Peter Baines said many Australians approach volunteering the wrong way .
  