Companies serve the public or go out of business.
Like cigarette companies?
There are exceptions one can wonder about, but in general a company that produces goods and services for paying customers is more likely to be rendering a public service than a government agency telling people what to do or even a non-profit that does things people are not willing to pay for. I am also dubious of young people going to foreign countries they know little about and trying to solve their problems. I know these are debatable propositions which are consistent with a certain political philosophy, but this is what I will tell my children.
There has been a trend over the last few decades for fewer teens to work. Each year our high school touts the rising number of graduating seniors who have performed public service, but it never mentions the (likely declining) number that have done paid work.
