Volunteering
What is Volunteering?
Volunteering is an opportunity to offer your time and skills, without material or financial reward, for the benefit of others. Any contribution of your time, no matter how small, will improve someone’s life and give you a possibility to develop new skills or build on existing experience and knowledge. We all have different gifts and abilities, which are useful. There is a person waiting for your help.
Why Should I Volunteer? Volunteering gives you an opportunity to:
1. Change someone’s life;
2. Change your society for better;
3. Gain new knowledge;
4. Get experience you may never receive anywhere else;
5. Develop new skills in different areas;
6. Add something new to your CV;
7. Find new friends, as well as personal and professional networks;
8. Interact with a different culture and different people;
9. Feel satisfaction because of your personal development and support of people in need;
10. Give something back to society, rather than only receive;
11. Have an alternative experience to standard free time spending.
Volunteer shares:
1. Time
2. Energy
3. Commitment
4. Enthusiasm
5. Knowledge and Skills
6. Experience
7. Friendship
Read more in “Volunteers“Handbook
Work of Volunteers in Caritas Georgia
In Caritas Georgia volunteers have a possibility to help different persons in need. Programs of Caritas are working with such types of people as: children living and working on streets, orphans, refugees, homeless, lonely elderly, bedridden, socially vulnerable persons, victims of natural disasters and armed conflicts, and many others. Even a few hours of volunteering per week can change somebody’s life.
Voluntary Actions
Except of possibility of being involved in different charitable programs or administrative work of Caritas Georgia, there are actions that are fully based on work of volunteers. These actions are:
- Soup for Homeless - Soup for homeless is action of our volunteers to support people living on the street with hot meal twice a week.
- Clothes Distribution Point - Through the action – Clothes Distribution Point, volunteers give clothes to socially deprived people twice a week.
- Sunny Room - In Sunny Room, volunteers meet with children from problematic families every week. Each meeting has its topic, which helps children to develop and break out from their unhealthy environment.
- Voluntary Summer Camps - Voluntary camps take place in summer period, when volunteers organize educational-entertaining camps for children from socially vulnerable families or Work camps to renovate public institutions (kindergartens) in poor towns or villages
| Volunteers Code of Conduct of Caritas Georgia |  |
| Volunteers Handbook of Caritas Georgia | |