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Our Mission Statement on Volunteer Involvement
The Salvation Army welcomes volunteers as partners to march along
with love and passion, in serving and enriching lives without
discrimination. We recognise that a meaningful engagement and
partnership with volunteers will allow us to mutually glow and grow.
Volunteers- Our Care Partners
"The Salvation Army welcomes volunteers as partners to march along
with love and passion, in serving and enriching lives without
discrimination..."
With this in mind, we actively engage volunteers from
all walks of life in our continued efforts in working with our
beneficiaries.
Volunteers play an active and important role
within The Salvation Army; in their own unique ways, they work
hand-in-hand with our staff and contribute to, extend and enrich the care of children, youths, elderly and families The Salvation Army works with.
Our Partnership Philosophy
"The Salvation Army recognizes that a
meaningful engagement and
partnership with volunteers will allow us to mutually glow and grow."
Recognizing that each volunteer is unique; each having
his/her own wealth of skills, knowledge, talents, experience, insights
and ideas, the Army strives to match each volunteers’ skills,
interests, commitment level, experience, preferences to meet real needs
through its network of social service centres and programmes.
At
the end of the day, the volunteer programme seeks to benefit both
beneficiaries and volunteers; beneficiaries benefiting from the
involvement of the volunteers and volunteers growing and developing
from their volunteering with the Army. This is what we call the “SA-V”
(Salvation Army Volunteer, pronounced as “savvy”) experience.
Read
more on our partnership philosophy here.
How Volunteers Contribute?
The Salvation Army Volunteer (or SA-V) Family currently consist of
group, corporate, family and individual volunteers rendering their
services on regular, ad-hoc and project basis.
Opportunities to
“do good” are abound in areas such as:
* Share-a-skill /
Knowledge
* Reading & Academic Mentorship
* Day-Out
with Beneficiaries
* Contribute-a-Skill
* Entertainment /
Befriending
* Facilities Improvement & Maintenance
*
Donations-in-kind Processing
* Events Support
*
Fundraising & Collection Drives
* Programme Support
Volunteers can choose to serve in direct services (e.g. providing
academic mentorship, befriending and/or sharing a skill with our
beneficiaries) or in indirect support services (e.g. offering their
expertise in photography, web-design, helping to sort and process
donations-in-kind to the Army and/or helping at fundraising events).
Volunteers
are
welcome to come help us in existing programmes and activities or
initiate meaningful projects that would help the Army’s work with the
needy and underprivileged.
Don't know where to start?
Look out for these badges
Click here for your first steps
in volunteering