Volunteer with Us
We are interested in doing something for a social cause, we want to do something for Women Empowerment, we want to teach children from the economically weaker section background, we want to give back, we want to care, and/or we want to have the satisfaction of having done something good for the society. It is often nice to get such application and I love it when they follow-up consistently until I have responded.
I delay purposely. Because, it is one thing to say you care, one thing to say you want to do something, and a whole different thing to actually do it.
So let me give you readers a roadmap on how to volunteer effectively. This post is for those who wish to volunteer with an NGO which has paid staff or dedicated set-up. Volunteering in key management positions of an NGO or in an all-volunteer setup is a very different cup of tea.
Who are we? We have spent close to 3 decades as some of the found members of an NGO working at grassroots’ level as volunteers as-well-as as a committee member, connecting volunteers to various projects and subprojects. as well as managing few small volunteer teams.
Let us Start:
It is wonderful that you want to volunteer. But do you want to volunteer for only one day, a couple of hours once in a week for a duration of few months or volunteer on all working days working 6 hours a day for a month or two, so-on-and-so-forth?
If you want to volunteer for one day then look out for cleaning drives, tree plantation, one-day awareness campaigns etc.
But note, in such one-day events, crowd management, managing resources and communicate effectively is sometimes difficult. Instead of complaining how things could have been better managed, make the best use of the space available to make yourself useful.