Презентация "Volunteering" ("Волонтёрство")

VOLUNTEERING

• Volunteering is a free of charge, conscious and unforced activity for the benefit of others. Any person who works for it is called a volunteer.

Who can be a volunteer?

• Any adult skillful and responsible person, who can devote his or her free time and skills to benefit a society. Every person can be a volunteer in any field of social life if it is a necessity for it.

What can volunteers do?

• Volunteers can be involved into those activities, which are unpaid but still important for reaching the aim of this or that programme.

For example:

• delivering food stuffs to eldery people who are so weak and disabled to go out from home;
• some work with children at school or paying attention to a historical monument;
• any such work can be done by volunteers;
• visiting sick people in hospitals.

• Volunteers are not only helpers or social workers, taking care of people around. They can be teachers, computer programmers, politicians, engineers, designers and others.

Volunteers can:

• Do the tasks not belonging to full-time paid jobs;
• Add some new people to a company or an organization and bring new ideas into it;
• Spread information, support and encourage social activity.

There are some popular volunteer branches, including:

• SPORT/CULT – organized help in running maraphones, cinema festivals, carnivals etc.
• KIDS/DISA/ELDE – working with children, disabled persons and eldery people;
• ZOO – taking care of animals;

• ENVI – ecological projects, such as ‘The Baikal expeditions and Big Baikal Trail’;
• AGRI – agricultural assistance to farmers;
• CONS/RENO/REST – construction, renovation and restauration projects;
• ARCH/STUDY – archeological and educational projects, scientific study.

• The first and the most popular volunteering programme is social volunteering : to help veterans and children;

• The second branch is sport volunteering: during Olympic Games and World-Wide Championships. The main volunteer’s skill is knowledge of foreign languages.

• The third line is cultural or art volunteering: the most popular sites for volunteering here are museums, libraries, parks and cinemas.

• The fourth important direction is ecological volunteering with wildlife protection and city ecology.

• The fifth classical programme in volunteering is blood donation, hospital watch, lectures about healthy lifestyle and disease prevention. More than a thousand volunteers work daily in hospitals and clinics.

• The sixth branch is event-volunteering. They take part in big festivals, forums and projects. For example, the Day of a City.

• The seventh line is virtual volunteering which activities are performed remotely with a computer or other device connected with the Internet. It is useful for people with psychological problems who has difficulties in communication

• The eight line is helping abandoned animals and building supporting shelters for them.

• The first modern volunteering organizations appeared in Europe after the World War II. But the history of this social movement took place in 1859.

• It happened in Western Europe when the Frenchman Jean Anry Dyunan offered to found The Red Cross Ambulance Force – the organization for helping the wounded and prisoners for free.

• Now volunteering movement is actively developed and supported on the state level by Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS) and UNESCO with its head-quarter located in Paris.

Here are some interesting facts about volunteering:

• The volunteering day is on the 5th of December.
• The symbol of a volunteer is a raised hand with an open palm (the volunteer’s sign).
• The most popular programme is helping children.

• According to the surveys, the countries-leaders involved in volunteering are Norway (57% of population), Luxemburg (55% of population) and Kamerun (53% of population).

• In Russia and in the Ukraine the involvement to such volunteers programmes is not so high: no more, than 10% of population.
• Nowadays 150 million adult people world-wide devote themselves to volunteering movement.

So, volunteering is not only the development of some professional skills for the future. It’s the training for the soul and the heart, desire to do good things automatically without asking to pay money for it.