Volunteering

THE PM WANTS TO MOBILIZES PARTIES' VOLUNTEERS IN THE RECONSTRUCTION. GOOD IDEA IF...

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Mobilizing thousands of volunteers in a cost effective and impact oriented way can instead require a lot of efforts in planning and coordination. Too often there is a wrong understanding on meanings and implications of using volunteers in the development sector. This is way the proposal from the PM can be an excellent one if it is executed after proper homework.

GLOBAL VOLUNTEERING CONFERENCE IN MEXICO CITY: VOLUNTEERING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

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IAVE, THE International Association for Volunteer Effort, is organizing the 24th IAVE World Volunteer Conference, hosted by Cemefi (Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía). Our theme – Volunteering for Social Change – recognizes that volunteering is a powerful way in which individual and collective actions can bring needed change to our communities, our countries and our rapidly globalizing world.

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Paradox of orphanage volunteering: Problems everywhere

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French Gap Year Student Enjoying Teaching in Orphanage
Without hesitating we can say, many 'orphanage homes' are intentionally opened and operated for the good money and not for the good social service. Problem is everywhere, we should fight collectively.

MLK DAY IS EVERYDAY

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How we can get inspired by Dr. King to mainstream volunteerism in our daily life. A short summary of event held on occasion of MLK Day at the American Embassy on 28th of January

How to run a youth volunteering action (PART I)

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This is a practical piece on how to devise, think and implement a youth led volunteering action. It is offers some insights, hopefully useful on implementing from scratch an impact oriented social action. The Part I is about be clear what is volunteerism and do the proper homework. Part II is about planning and implementation.

My volunteering Story: how helping Bindu made me learn writing in braille

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This is my volunteering story that i wrote in occasion of International Youth Day under the UNV led initiative Youth Story. I want to share this with you.

Doreen Johnstone and Book Reach: How passion drives positive changes ( Interview)

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Doreen is an incredible, strong, determined and passionate woman who have been living all around the world with many years spent in Nepal. An educationalist by background, profession and passion, Doreen recently started a new social venture called Book Reach that brings children books from South East Asia to selected schools in Nepal. Here the the interview

Thinking of volunteering? Why do not you start with a PON?

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Volunteering can be a long term goal. Before reaching it, you can start from small acts of kindness or pons as defined by the famous guru Edward de Bono. You can learn how the Manohara’s girls club is taking actions…

Social Work Day 2014: everybody is a social worker

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Social Work is hard to be defined mus surely completes and integrate the overall development work. The two, social work and development should be promoted not only among professionals but also among citizenry. It is a new way of ethics, a new way of taking a stand and do something.

My Sunday, volunteering

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Together with my wife Kalpana, I decided to or (at least I am trying to) dedicate my life to the cause of volunteerism and service. Wait a minute: here I am not claiming to be a CNN Hero, nothing like that. I simply want to work on social sector and I want to do it in a bit different way, not building schools or health centers or promoting children sponsorship ( I have enough of the latter) but rather trying to persuade people to help each others. Sometimes i am so into my work that i forget to volunteer myself. My friend Indira offered me the opportunity to give something back.

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