Volunteers

Volunteers

Volunteers for various causes come with all types of intention and expectation. As a volunteer I remember a sense of not knowing exactly what to expect. Volunteers that I have spent time with my humanitarian missions and those on mission of their own all have a sense of sacrifice, whether its time money or physical efforts. On this merit alone volunteer are to be treated with their full rights and more. Volunteers from out of town should be fed the best housed the best and treated like an honored guest should. Local volunteers should be tended in best fashion as well, open to any reciprocity that may present itself for their efforts.

Categories of volunteers off the top of my head

Volunteers who commit for an indefinite amount of time
Volunteer interns who commit for a large amount of time
Volunteers who come for more then a week from out of town
Volunteers who come for less then a week from out of town
Volunteers who locally volunteer regularly
Volunteers who locally volunteer occasionally
Volunteers who locally or from out of town volunteer randomly and unexpectantly

Contrary to a critical number of volunteer’s intentions to rough it in the worst conditions, volunteers themselves should seek the best living conditions as possible. They should seek the best shelter they can, eat the best food they can keep as much positive company as possible. If you come to a disaster site to help those seriously affect by destruction and calamity and you are sleeping in the same conditions, eating in the same conditions ect. You will get burned out, you will get burned out! The overwhelming energy drain will consume you physically, mentally and spiritually. Indefinite volunteers and Intern Volunteers when following this methodology of almost pampering themselves amidst chaos must themselves leave the ground zero of the disaster site for regular time off to take a full recharge at least once a season.

A volunteer alumni should be compiled for a number of reasons like keep an ongoing communication for future event’s, updates and newsletters, to be able to send sincere thank you messages etc.