Volunteer Leadership Training Kit

Training kit on volunteer leadership

Volunteering:

Devoting some of a person's own time to public work through a commitment that is not a job commitment, but rather a moral commitment, and is also an honourable form of competition for the sake of serving humanitarian and societal goals.

The voluntary contribution of individuals to charitable work, whether through opinion, work, funding or other forms within an organised framework, in order to help and develop society. It may be individual, collective or institutional. It is based on religious, moral, social and humanitarian considerations.

The volunteer:

A person who possesses a particular skill and experience that they use to perform a social duty voluntarily and by choice and without any compensation of any kind.

Social responsibility:

Attention to aspects of social development and to ethical aspects alongside attention to commercial profitability.

Cohesion and commitment in order to achieve a balance between multiple parties, such that the interests and needs of the institution in production, its employees, the external environment and society are all balanced together.

Charitable work:

Work in which a group of people participate to achieve the public interest, and humanitarian, religious, scientific, industrial or economic purposes, by means of collecting donations and spending them on aspects of charitable work, with the aim of social, cultural or relief activity, through methods of care or assistance, material or moral, inside the country and outside it, without any intention of profit for its founders.

The effort a person exerts for the sake of their society or for the sake of specific groups, in which they bear work responsibilities through existing social institutions in satisfaction of internal human feelings and motives, and which meets with satisfaction and acceptance from society.

Offering a helping hand to an individual or group of individuals who need it without any compensation, whether material or moral, with the purpose being to seek the pleasure of God Almighty.