VOLUNTEER - KEY TO THE FUTURE
Volunteer – Key to the Future
FIRST NATIONAL MEETING
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Date of meeting: |
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15.2.2011 |
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Venue of the meeting: |
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Praha – Kobylisy |
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Number of participants: |
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Description of the meeting: |
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Before this meeting each participant got document Volunteering in the EU – executive summary. In the beginning of meeting we watched promo video about Key to the Future. In two next hours we were looking for answers and we discussed all these questions. We were three. One girl cooperated with us from Pilsner. She sent us answers for each question. In the text is summary of all discussion. |
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Outcomes of the meeting: |
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- pictures - formulation answers |
Questions
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Giving: free time, knowledge, skills, energy, ideas, friendship, relationship, what I know, what I can do, I can hand on opinions and as a volunteer I can be example for the other people.
Receiving: experience, spiritual development, contacts, personal development, seeing a good impact of your work, friendship, relationship, good feeling that the work which I do as a volunteer has a sense, use my free time effectively and I can help other people.
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To support volunteering (training: Cagliero- training and sending volunteers abroad, education of social workers, cooperation of volunteers from specialized teams (team for public relations, euro team, development and missionary team), materials for volunteers
SADBA – this organisation exists because of its
main job description which is education of volunteer and next workers (thanks
to these people SADBA helps not only to children but to volunteers too in their
personally development), connection of Salesian’s activities for children and
youth in
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3. How does your organization cope with employees / volunteers? |
We can say that we have for different group of volunteers:
- Long-term cooperation – volunteers work in salesian’s center, they have regular meetings and trainings, they prepare regular activities for young people and children
- Short-term cooperation – volunteers cooperate only for short time.
- Working in teams - volunteers are part of special groups in SADBA
- International volunteers – One intensive year in abroad.
Many of young people try all these groups. Usually is way of volunteering – short-term cooperation – long-term cooperation, working tin teams – international volunteering – long-term cooperation.
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4. What training have you received in your field of voluntary work? |
Margherita - accreditation volunteers (10 hours) – it for adults, who have experience of volunteering and this program, is for another education of them.
Cagliero- 8 weeks/ year, training of long-term international volunteers
Training of Don Bosco Youth Net – seminars, STEP 1, STEP 2, STEP 3
Training of volunteers on local level – some of youth center have special course for training volunteers
Program Rinaldi - training of short-term international volunteers (for holidays)
Salesian school of animators - Voluntary work is connected with children. Good training for local volunteers is Salesian school of animators which is specializing in area of working with children.
Topics of all trainings are:
- Salesian pedagogy;
- Low of working with kids;
- Training, how to prepare free time activities or camps;
- Salesian organisation is, how it works.
- End next special theme depend on program.
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5. Do you feel recognition for the work you do? |
Yes, I feel recognition. In the place where I work is several volunteers and everybody are recognized by leaders of our centre for children. We can meet together; we have opportunities to join to common activities.
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6. Is there a structure in place within your organization and / or within the country to give value and importance to the work you do as a volunteer? |
Yes, there is law about volunteering within our organization and founding documents within our organization. But there are gaps in the law.
Structure of the organisation in out country is divided into several Salesian centres which cooperate together. There is 10 Salesian´s centres for children in Czech which ensure activities for them and work in reference of Don Bosco.
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7. How do the people on the outside see / perceive you as a volunteer? |
It depends; some people don’t understand (especially atheists). But there are some who support it and see the sense in it.
Most of people appreciate work of
volunteers. My family thinks that it is nice that I work as a volunteer. On the
other hand it is several people who don’t understand why I use my free time for
volunteering. They don’t see this job as interesting and they say that there is
no point in this kind of work.
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No, it doesn’t.
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9. Identify three main challenges for your organization |
- Education volunteers
- Connection salesian activities
- Connection between national and international activities
- changes in the law to support volunteers (to support them more)
- sustainable funding
- coordination and cooperation between teams (between all members)
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10. What other challenges (other than the 9 listed above) can you think of? |
- Propagation of Salesian organisation
- Propagation of sense of Salesian work
- Personal development of people in the area of volunteering
- System of taxation
- Spiritual development
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11. Do you face a funding issue? And how do you face it? |
- we try to have long- term projects to sustain activities for supporting volunteers (europian projects, fundraising, Adopce nablízko…)
- face a funding issue if we prepare camps for children (part of money which is necessary for camps can be from funding)
Volunteer – Key to the Future
SECOND NATIONAL MEETING
13. June 2011
Prague-Kobylisy
SADBA
Volunteers: Marie Jakubcová, Iveta Pešatová, Marie Šafaříková
Challenges
- More information other people about volunteering in our society
- Motivation of volunteers
- Looking for volunteers
- Make money for project
- …..
We choose to work on this aim: More information other people about volunteering in our society
Aksanti is program for public about volunteering. Aksanti is organized by SADBA. During Aksanti are introduced volunteers, their project and another topic, which have connection with volunteering.
Concrete action of volunteers:
- Iveta will write article about “Aksanti” before and after. She will contact local newspaper and their webs.
o Date: the 14th of June 2011
- She will put article after Aksanti.
o Date: after the 30th of June 2011
Outputs of action:
on the 14th of June 2011
after the 30th of June 2011