Volunteering is increasingly recognized as a significant resource for overcoming development challenges. Empirical data can document the contributions of volunteers, set benchmarks for evaluation, uncover important trends,
and encourage policies that help promote volunteering.

Volunteering and Values An Introduction

Volunteering is increasingly recognized as a significant resource for overcoming development challenges. Empirical data can document the contributions of volunteers, set benchmarks for evaluation, uncover important trends,

and encourage policies that help promote volunteering.
Volunteering is difficult to define and measure in a way that is comparable across borders or cultures. When
volunteering has been measured, the focus has largely been on organization-based volunteering, rather than
volunteering performed spontaneously and directly between people. Many stakeholders fail to recognize the importance of measuring volunteering,

We Always Appreciate our Volunteers

That reliable data on volunteering have long been so limited is due in important part
to the series of impediments that stand in the way of it. These take a number of forms:
Active resistance. In some quarters, including within the volunteering community,
measurement of volunteering is actively resisted. Volunteering is perceived as a
moral duty, an inherent part of neighborliness, and therefore not a behavior that
should be quantified and measured. In this view, the measurement of volunteer
effort dehumanizes and unnecessarily commodifies volunteer effort, thereby robbing
volunteering of its essential character as a fulfilling human activity undertaken out of
a sense of altruism and social solidarity. Conceiving volunteering as a purely individual
action, those who hold this view also see little need.

We Always Appreciate our Volunteers

These Volunteers help us for distribution of water in Holly month Ramadan kareem.