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The Volunteer Movement Award, which are awarded by the Social Welfare Department of the HKSAR government in Hong Kong, recognize committed individual volunteers and group volunteers in serving the community. Each year, gold award, silver award and bronze award are awarded to committed individual or group to encourage volunteerism.
In 1962, the practice changed to using university graduate volunteers. [6] By 1980, the unskilled volunteers had been completely phased out and the length of service had been extended to two years. [7] Active volunteer numbers initially dropped to about 750, but by 2003 had returned to about 1,400.
Volunteering is an elective and free-choice act of an individual or group freely giving time and labor, often for community service. [1] [2] Many volunteers are specifically trained in the areas they work, such as medicine, education, or emergency rescue. Others serve on an as-needed basis, such as in response to a natural disaster.
Peter Singer is one of the prominent philosophers of effective altruism.. In the philosophy of effective altruism, an altruistic act such as charitable giving is considered more effective, or cost-effective, if it uses a set of resources to do more good per unit of resource than other options, with the goal of trying to do the most good. [1]
The International Year of Volunteers was designated for 2001 by the United Nations General Assembly.The initiative aimed at increased recognition, facilitation, networking and promotion of volunteering, to highlight the achievements of the millions of volunteers worldwide who devote their time to serving others, and to encourage more people globally to engage in volunteering.
The Azzam Pasha quotation was part of a statement made by Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, the Secretary-General of the Arab League from 1945 to 1952, in which he declared in 1947 that, were a war to take place with the proposed establishment of a Jewish state, it would lead to "a war of extermination and momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacre and the Crusades."
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The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards [1] program is the United States' largest youth recognition program based exclusively on volunteer community service.The program was created in 1995 by Prudential in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) to honor middle level and high school students for outstanding service to others at the local, state, and ...