subject: Outclass Activities: Volunteer Organizations for Students [print this page] Outclass Activities: Volunteer Organizations for Students
Aside from an ongoing educational process crammed with tests, assignments, researches, reports, and essays, students should have extra time for personal development and outclass activities. In particular, they can indulge in different sport or theatre activities, or they may become members of a volunteer organization. Such activities can raise students' social and cultural awareness and concerns with the educational process and the welfare of their educational establishment in general. The essence of volunteer organizations Usually, volunteer organizations are responsible for the organization and planning of educational process, the creation of extracurricular activities, and the organization of events and competitions. The latter measures serve to enhance students concerns with the quality of study and campus life. So, students who decide to initiate all the activities should possess great communicative and organizational skills, and have a great desire to introduce changes to an educational process. How can volunteer organization improve the quality of a college life? 1. Pertaining to college activities, volunteer students take responsibility for organizing different training courses and creating different clubs and groups. In such situations, volunteer students should be able to create a favorable atmosphere, particularly when engaging multicultural environment. In addition, they should care more for results rather than initial goals. 2. Pertaining to the creation of competitions and events, student should guarantee an annual holding of sport competitions, different conferences, and festivals. It is important that volunteers include the celebration of national holidays which greatly increase students' cultural awareness. 3. Organization of part-time jobs for students is also included into the responsibility of volunteer organizations. Volunteer activists should provide students with information of different part-time job opportunities and make sure that they have made the right choice. As it can be seen, volunteer work is rather serious and responsible. It imposes a lot of obligation on students who should really care for the fate of their educational establishment.
