Fabio
– To be a volunteer means to get the opportunity to share with persons and Organisations in different parts of the world the technical knowledge that I have the luck to achieve in my professional life. The experience has always been very rewarding, with a mutual contribution (volunteer, local management and staff) to the improvement of living standards and impulse to employment. On a personal basis, I have always found that these missions give to the volunteer much higher inner values than the time that he devotes them.
– A volunteer can be strongly instrumental in supporting the attainment of the MDG by concentrating his advise and activity in the development of concrete actions that can improve (even on a small scale) the income of local families and create higher employment opportunities. New better jobs are the answer to the fight against poverty and the enhancing of human dignity and equality.
– Volunteerism can be promoted daily, by simply telling friends about our experiences and inviting them to join voluntary Associations (like VSP/Seniores in Italy). It works! Many of us are ready to devote their experience if and when UNV/UNDP calls.
Gianmaria
To be a volunteer means to have the opportunity to share with persons and Organizations in different parts of the world the technical knowledge that I have the lucky to achieve in my professional life. The experience has always been very rewarding, with a mutual contribution (volunteer, local management and staff).On a personal basis, I have always found that these missions give to the volunteer more profound inner values than the time that he devotes them.
The San Carlos University – Cebu’s mission has been my first assignment in the Philippines and I was surprised in seeing how much the professors involved were interested in my working experience, than the subjects discussed at the theoretical level. This was gratifying for me, since these past experiences, now almost forgotten, were very important and interesting to them. And I would like to underline the way they felt and appreciated every single experience that I relayed to them. Even though they were professors and therefore competent in the field, they seemed surprised at the operational modalities that my experience led to. This is also due to their particular character and personalities which are to be extremely curious and interested in different culture traits/experiences. This approach gave to me the opportunity to learn new valuable skills/knowledge, not only in terms of economical results, but also under a point of view of human relations.