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<p>To do volunteer work you will not get salary and may be your present job manager will mark you absent and that will cause no salary and may be long absence will bring termination so what you will do choose to continue own job or to go for helping people without any money when your own family needs your salary to live ?</p>
If voluntary service is within my proximity to reach, definitely I will go for that
--Personal interests are secondary to me for a common cause. What about lacks of soldiers protecting every country? (though their service is paid for it is equivalent to voluntary service). It doesn't mean that I won't care for my family in anyway.
It will not hurt to do voluntary works from time to time, it is your responsibility to give back to your countrymen or to humankind itself if you are working outside of your country. I was doing voluntary works before while I also have a full-time job, the deduction of one day salary is not that much compared to the joy that you will bring to other people specially in disaster situations. I came from Philippines, which is a country that is always devastated by calamities, typhoons, earthquakes, and floods, so charity and voluntary works will always be there and it is our social responsibility to help our own countrymen. I just also have to be responsible on my job by informing them that I will be absent for voluntary works, it is quite understood in our country and the companies will not be against it in anyway. But now that I am working overseas, the only charity work that I can do is to donate money to NGOs and Red Cross/Red Crescent or to donate blood every six months, since I am working in a different cultural environment therefore I should also respect the value of the job here and not jeopardize it by being absent for work to do voluntary works for my own cause, I just have to find other ways to contribute without being absent for work.
Actually in case there are cases of force majeure like floods, earthquake, war, tsunami the whole country will be out of work. these things will not hit a certain neighborhood instead the whole country and can cause millions of people to die or to become refugees. Even if my family needs money and support , they will understand that helping people is more important than work. Concerning my manager, discussion will take place about the urgency and situation.
Yes I do volunteer work...because my Prophet MUHAMMAD (P.B.U.H) taught me to help others in any circumstances..in the battle of Badar Hazrat Abu Bakar Sidduque (R.A) donated his whole property by saying that
"My Allah is enough for me"
so these people are my inspiration,my teachers and shining stars of my life..I would follow them and my answer is same when my family needs my salary..Thanks
Based on my experiences on tsunami cases, eruptions and some other disasters here. We arranged rotation system where volunteers (from out of disasters area indeed) would take rotation schedules to be involved in the disasters area and victims. As consideration that at times, the disaster domain was not easy to enter and there were limited transportation to reach it. Thats why, there would not required so long time to leave work, and even people who have returned from the disaster domain will keep work on the volunteer job to coordinate collecting donations in their places for the victims. In addition, Volunteers will be listed officially by SAR organization to get recommendation permission from work at times they are directly involved into the disaster domain. So, no worries for doing this charity.
It is a dilemma. I will emphasis my family first then every thing.
If I can not do both, I'll try to raise some awareness about these victims through an e-mail, Whatsapp etc. Then, continue to provide for my family.
We have people, like students, who have a lot of free time. Some would them may go help. :)
More than121,000 people fled their homes when fighting broke out two weeks ago, leading to a chaotic situation in which many families became separated. On27 December, in one of the UN compounds sheltering civilians in the nation's capital Juba, Save the Children identified more than20 children who were without their parents or any other adult caregiver. Yet the phenomenon is likely to be much worse in areas such as Jonglei where the fighting has been at its most intense.
Many of the people who fled sought protection in UN bases, while others looked for shelter with host communities in safer areas. Most worryingly, thousands of others, including children, are likely to have fled to the remote bush; vast swampy areas where people will likely have no shelter and will be living under trees, will be forced to drink stagnant water, and where they will have no access to humanitarian support.
"Identifying children who have been separated and reuniting them with their families is a priority for us, and we are working around the clock in displaced camps in Juba to ensure that families have access to their basic needs", said Save the Children's Country Director for South Sudan, Fiona McSheehy. "But we are very concerned that we cannot reach other parts of the country where the fighting has been escalating and where the needs of children are rising sharply."
Save the Children has a vast experience of responding to the needs of families affected by fighting in South Sudan and identifying and reuniting separated children. "During the conflict in Pibor earlier this year, Save the Children registered over1,150 children who had been separated from their parents as a result of the fighting. This was in just one county of South Sudan," McSheehy said. "The recent violence has extended to over half the country, and we are extremely worried about the high numbers of vulnerable children who urgently need our support, but who we cannot access because of the ongoing fighting."
Save the Children is working in the two UN compounds in Juba where displaced people are currently seeking refuge, to assess and protect vulnerable children, including by ensuring they can access shelter, food and healthcare and to support the provision of emergency relief items. Save the Children has pre-existing programs in many of the states, including Jonglei and Upper Nile, which have been affected by the current conflict and where it is running health, education and nutrition projects. With an extensive presence across South Sudan, the aid agency is preparing to scale up its response in other areas as soon as it is possible to do so.
if i write my point honesty i will not prefer to work voluntary without any salary in that case where my own family needs me over there i would give charity and donations for those people who are internally displaced by natural disasters, yes if my family has other family members they can run by them then with open heart i would be a volunteer without any pay for my sister and brothers.
To do a volunteer work,you need to be at a stage in your life when you feel and have prove that you are ready and it is time to shoulder some responsibilities for others. You have to strike the balance between your family and your volunteer work, you have to be sure that you have the means to care for your family needs and for the needs of others in the society this way no side will be affected in a negative way.
