Serving our Communities

The word ‘service’ has its origins from the Latin servitium for slavery or servitude. It has however developed over the ages and has come to mean a “state of being bound to undertake tasks for someone or at someone’s direction; labour performed or undertaken for another” or a “system supplying a public need” according to the Online Etymology Dictionary. In the same way ‘serve’, from the Latin servire for being a servant or enslaved, has found meaning in “performing a service for”, with ‘to serve’ denoting “to treat (someone) as he deserves”. The word “community” could also be traced back to the Latin communitas for community or ‘public spirit’, and communis for ‘shared in common’.