The phrase "act of helping" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the action or process of providing assistance or support to someone in need.
Example: "The act of helping others can bring a sense of fulfillment and purpose to our lives."
Alternatives: "gesture of assistance" or "action of support".
One act of helping a day does nothing for your mood because it's a drop in the bucket.
The act of helping others may seem merely compassionate and decent — but research indicates that it also produces important physical and mental health benefits for caregivers.
The unrewarded children – who don't know the other group are getting rewards – keep on helping, content with no ulterior reason other than the act of helping".
You can revolutionize your own life by making the act of helping out many others an easy part of your daily routine".
A woman, in the act of helping another woman off the floor, falls backward onto the floor herself; then the woman she assisted continues the pattern with yet another supine woman.
Charles Darwin regarded the problem of altruism — the act of helping someone else, even if it comes at a steep personal cost — as a potentially fatal challenge to his theory of natural selection.
And I think the third thing is, the very specific acts of helping.
Men are responsible for the lion's share of the worst acts of aggression and selfishness, but they also engage in some of the most extreme acts of helping and generosity.
"At least I'm not using our tithing as a salve for, say, cutting corners ethically in my work," he said, "but I do worry about making it a substitute for more personal acts of helping".
Some empirical studies suggest that women are more likely than men to engage in prosocial behaviour, defined as voluntary behaviour intended to benefit others — and this includes acts of helping and donating.
As dispositions of caring, the virtues of gratitude, contrition, and compassion have the value of motivating appropriate actions: acts of that special gracious justice that is an appropriate response to gifts and their givers, acts of self-correction and atonement for wrongs committed, and acts of helping those who suffer.
