Impact

VOLUNTEERING IMPACT
SERVE believes in volunteering. We believe that our volunteering programmes make a difference and have a significant positive impact on communities, projects and beneficiaries.

SERVE has strong convictions about volunteering:

• We believe that the voluntary sector is a significant stakeholder and actor in the development sector;
• We recognise that many community based grassroots initiatives are both inspired by and dependent upon volunteers;
• We are convinced that the mobilisation of grassroots communities is essential to the full achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by;

• Supporting programmes that mobilise voluntary effort and sweat equity in local communities in the developing world;
• Implementing volunteering programmes that connect Irish volunteers with projects and communities in the developing world with the objective of enhancing the overall volunteering effort;
• Building the capacity of our international partners through the volunteering component by increasing the opportunities for networking, sharing of best practice and lesson learning, transferring of skills, and acting as catalysts for mobilisation of local communities;
• Volunteering programmes planned jointly with our international partners that enhances the quality of partnership relationships;
• Mobilising young adults in Ireland and in the communities served by our international partners to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals;
• Continuing the excellent Irish volunteer tradition that helped give birth to the emergence and evolution of the Irish response to development and believing that there will be a continued volunteer multiplier impact into the future.

How does SERVE's Volunteering Programme contribute to the development agenda?