Has your organization, service institution, or government agency ever had difficulty recruiting volunteers? or had a bad experience with your volunteers? or with volunteer/staff relations? Are you flooded with requests by students who want to fulfill service requirements or companies that want to do corporate volunteer projects, but you don't know what to do with them ... or why you should bother?
Many of the problems related to volunteering could be avoided if organizations had a better idea of how to prepare for, recruit, place, orient, train, and otherwise manage their volunteers.
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On Friday May 22 an event will take place at Crowne Plaza Hotel, in collaboration with the Inclusion Network, to launch the publication “Inclusive School Model. Guide for Inclusive School System”. It is the final event of an Italian funded project aimed at promoting inclusion of children with special needs in Lebanese primary schools, implemented by the Italian NGO Gruppo di Volontariato Civile (GVC) and the Lebanese one Youth Association of the Blind (YAB). The project has been co-funded by the Italian MFA.
The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) recommends the following event which is the third of its kind and organized by CoVisionMENA (important note: This is not an FES event!):
Lebanon and the entire region of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are facing huge humanitarian challenges – the support of many organisations and helpers is urgently needed. Thank you for your most valuable contribution!
But having to deal with the fates and stories of many desperate in addition to the challenges of overcoming cultural barriers, working in multidisciplinary teams and negotiating with donors can be...
