VOLUNTEER POLICY

1. ATTENDANCE- THERE WILL BE A REGULAR CHECKING OF ATTENDANCE. EACH VOLUNTEER SHALL RENDER 3 HOURS A WEEK

DTR SHOULD BE FILLED UP ONLY FOR THOSE WHO WILL BE SERVING FOR AN HOUR OR MORE. LESS THAN AN HOUR WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED AS AN OFFICIAL RENDERED DUTY

2. EACH SENIOR VOLUNTEER IS REQUIRED TO:

A) CONDUCT AT LEAST TWO CESDEV ORIENTATIONS AMONG FRESHMEN

B.) ONE OUTREACH ACTIVITY ASIDE FROM THEIR OWN SECTION

C.) FACILITATE ATLEAST FOUR SEMINARS FOR THE LEVEL TWO TO FOUR

3. EACH JUNIOR VOLUNTEER IS REQUIRED TO:

A) ATTEND AT LEAST THREE OUTREACH ACTIVITY ASIDE FROM THEIR SECTION

B.)FACILITATE AT LEAST ONE CESDEV ORIENTATION AMONG FRESHMEN AND

C.)FACILITATE AT LEAST FOUR SEMINARS OF LEVEL TWO TO FOUR

4. PROPER ENDORSTMENT SHOULD BE DONE BEFORE LEAVING THE OFFICE. HE/ SHE MAY WRITE THE ENDORSMENTS IN THE ENDORSEMENT NOTEBOOK

5. CLEANLINESS SHOULD BE OBSERVED IN THE OFFICE. EACH VOLUNTEER MUST LEAVE THE OFFICE ORDER AND ORGANIZED

6. HE/ SHE MUST BE FAMILIAR WITH THE PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES IN THE OFFICE

7. VOLUNTEER MUST DISSEMINATE ACCURATE INFORMATION TO THE STUDENTS. IF IN DOUBT, PLEASE REFER TO THE OFFICE OR TO THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE.

8. IF A VOLUNTEER FAILS TO MEET THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF HOURS PER WEEK OF THE DUTY, HE/SHE HAS TO DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF HOURS THE FOLLOWING WEEK SO ON AND SO FORTH.

9. ALL VOLUNTEERS MUST COMPLY WITH THE VOLUNTEER POLICIES AND GUIDELINES. FAILURE TO DO SO WILL MAKE HIM/SHE CANDIDATE FOR ELIMINATION.

A VOLUNTEER

I'll Show You A Volunteer
Poem by Foley

Show me a person who spends endless hours in training without pay,And, I'll show you a volunteer.

Show me a person where a cry for help brings split-second dispatch,And, I'll show you a volunteer.

Show me a person who is devastated when lives are lost or maimed,And, I'll show you a volunteer.

Show me a person who is graciously welcomed as a next-door neighbor,And, I'll show you a volunteer.

Show me a person who takes ridicule more than compliments,And, I'll show you a volunteer.

Show me a person who sacrifices homelife, TV... even tender moments,And, I'll show you a volunteer.

Show me a person who may be asked to give more than just dedication,And, I'll show you a volunteer.

Show me a person who is asked to give more... and more... and more,And, I'll show you a volunteer.

STARFISH

Making a Difference

A woman was walking along a beach filled with starfish.

As she walked, she would stoop down, pick one up at random, and throw it back into the ocean.

A man came upon her and asked why she was bothering with throwing some back when there were so many - how could it possibly make a difference?

She picked up another starfish, threw it back into the ocean, and said, "It made a difference to that one."

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MA'AM LIM !

UC Nursing CESDEV volunteers organized a mananita and a surprise birthday party for Mrs. Jocelyn Lim, the Overall Coordinator for the CESDEV of the Nursing Department of the University of Cebu in Banilad last June 3, 2007. Her dedication and commitment served as a good example to the volunteers who hold her special in their hearts.










Ms. Jade Lyra Galdo, UC Nursing CESDEV External Coordinator, presented to Mrs. Jocelyn Antiporta-Lim a Plaque of Appreciation for the unselfish and unwavering support and dedication to the organization.


The CESDEV senior volunteers showed their sweet smiles as they celebrate Ma'am Lim's birthday. Happy Birthday !!!

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS

WHY VOLUNTEER ?

Why Volunteer ?
by Susan J. Ellis
charityguide.org

People volunteer for a wide variety of reasons, especially wanting to help others. But it's also OK to want some benefits for yourself from volunteering.

Some people are uncomfortable with the notion that a volunteer "benefits" from doing volunteer work. There is a long tradition of seeing volunteering as a form of charity, based on altruism and selflessness. The best volunteering does involve the desire to serve others, but this does not exclude other motivations, as well.

Instead of considering volunteering as something you do for people who are not as fortunate as yourself, begin to think of it as an exchange.
Consider that most people find themselves in need at some point in their lives. So today you may be the person with the ability to help, but tomorrow you may be the recipient of someone else's volunteer effort.

Even now you might be on both sides of the service cycle: maybe you are a tutor for someone who can't read, while last month the volunteer ambulance corps rushed you to the emergency room.

Volunteering also includes "self-help." So if you are active in your neighborhood crime watch, your home is protected while you protect your neighbors' homes, too. Adding your effort to the work of others makes everyone's lives better.

Think about how much you receive when you give and consider why you want to volunteer. You may have several different reasons. Here are just a few of the many possible motivations identified by other volunteers:

to feel needed
to share a skill
to get to know a community
to demonstrate commitment to a cause/belief
to gain leadership skills
to act out a fantasy
to do your civic duty
satisfaction from accomplishment
to keep busy
for recognition
to donate your professional skills
because there is no one else to do it
to have an impact
to learn something new
for freedom of schedule
to help a friend or relative
for escape
to become an "insider"
to be challenged
to be a watchdog
to feel proud
to make new friends
to explore a career
to help someone
as therapy
to do something different from your job
for fun!
for religious reasons
to earn academic credit
to keep skills alive
to have an excuse to do what you love
to be able to criticize
to assure progress
to feel good
to be part of a team
to gain status
because you were asked
to test yourself
to build your resume
to be an agent of change
because of personal experience with the problem, illness, or cause
to stand up and be counted

You will probably have some special reasons of your own. Remember that the motivations you have to select the place to offer your services may not be the reasons why you stay. Once you're on the volunteer job, you will continue to serve as long as you feel that your efforts are accomplishing something, that your talents are appreciated, and that you make a difference. And if you also like the people with whom you work, so much the better!

As long as you are truly serving through your volunteer work, isn't it wonderful that such an exchange occurs? In fact, it tends to strengthen your commitment to volunteering when you can see the benefits to both the recipient of your efforts and to yourself. And it is much more comfortable than "charity" because it upholds the self-esteem of those with whom you volunteer.

AN INSPIRING STORY

Of Birds and "V"

When you see birds flying along in "V" formation, think about what science has learned about why they fly that way.

As each bird flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the bird immediately following it. By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock can fly at least 71% farther than if each bird flew on its own.

When a bird falls out of formation, it feels the resistance of trying to do it alone, and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of flying with the flock.

When the lead bird gets tired, it rotates back in the wing and another bird flies on the point.

The birds chirp from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed.

Finally, (get this!) When a bird weakens or is wounded and falls out of formation, two birds fall out and follow down to help and protect the bird. They stay with the bird until it is either able to fly or until it is dead, and they then set out on their own or with another formation until they catch up with the group.

~ Author Unknown

ABOUT YOU

Volunteer?

Ask yourself ...

"Why am I volunteering?"
"What do I want or expect from a volunteering experience?"
"How much am I willing to give of myself?"
"What are my talents, abilities and skills?"
"What do I want to achieve?"
"What kind of work would I be good at and/or willing to learn?"
"How much time do I have to give?"
"How long a commitment am I willing to make?"
"What kind of environment would I prefer to work in? Indoors? Outdoors? Physical work? With other people or alone?

WHY JOIN CESDEV ?

Joining CESDEV will give you the opportunity to attend very informative seminars. Shown here is Mrs. Jocelyn Antiporta-Lim, CESDEV Overall Coordinator, with her powerpoint presentation.

You will also get to attend very interesting, educational, and full of fun activities.

Participate in workshops and enrich your knowledge, improve your skills, and develop your attitude.

It's so good to belong to a group of people who are COMMITTED TO SERVE.

JOIN CESDEV

Join CESDEV!

Be an active volunteer for UC Nursing Community Extension Services and Development (CESDEV) and gain new friends.

Be with people who rise above their own interests for the greater benefit for the majority ... be it in school or in the communities.

Be with peers who truly cares. Join CESDEV now!

VOLUNTEERISM

Volunteerism
By Randy David
InquirerLast updated 08:04am (Mla time) 04/22/2007

(The following is an abridged version of what I read at a recent forum on volunteerism organized by the UP Kalipunan ng mga Mag-aaral sa Sosyolohiya)

MANILA, Philippines -- The early history of volunteerism bears the mark of institutional interests operating behind the selflessness of the individual volunteer. As long as this was the case, volunteers were viewed with suspicion. The idealism that volunteerism tapped usually vanished with the volunteer’s realization of the sponsoring institution’s hidden agenda.

Many volunteer groups began as adjuncts of church, government and business corporations. But soon, they took a life of their own and gradually weaned themselves from their originating mother institutions.
If one examines the rules by which today’s non-government organizations or NGOs seek to govern themselves, one cannot fail to notice how most of these still revolve around the issue of autonomy—an indication that the process of differentiation from institutional sponsors is far from complete. It is almost axiomatic for voluntary organizations to diversify their funding sources as soon as they can. This is the only way they can draw their own programs, and avoid being captive to externally generated agendas. Volunteer organizations stay away, for the same reason, from politicians and ideological groups. The one single vision to which they commit themselves is community empowerment, the strengthening of the people’s own autonomy and the establishment of conditions for enduring community self-reliance.

This vision translates to a readiness to withdraw at the right time, and a studious avoidance of any attempt to cultivate a new form of clientalism and dependence. Volunteer groups avoid styling themselves as the new patrons, constantly reminding their members that volunteerism is not about the volunteer but about the community being served.

This is not always easy to carry out. The same process that provides volunteers with the psychic rewards that keep them going also entices them to prolong the community’s dependence on their presence.
This brings up the ethical code that distinguishes volunteer work from other spheres of human activity like religion, politics, or business. Volunteer work is not merely unpaid or uncompensated service, for that only distinguishes it from an economic transaction. In its purest form, volunteer work is also not motivated by any wish for religious conversion or political recruitment into a religion, party, or cause. The true volunteer is a self-directing and self-sufficient person. Her cup overflows—this alone is what accounts for her generosity. Her volunteerism is not part of a strategy of self-realization. For she is not in search of personal meaning; she is overflowing with meaning.

In the real world, however, the voluntary sector has to work with a variety of individuals who bring with them all kinds of unrecognized personal motives and needs. This often results in easy burn-out, and the relatively short duration of passionate work. Many dedicated volunteers end up withdrawing from volunteerism in order to pursue more conventional lives, or they graduate to full-time religious or revolutionary careers. This basic instability is what prevents the volunteer sector from fully institutionalizing itself. It is almost as if every attempt to rationally organize itself becomes a reason for its decline. This seems to be the fate of many NGOs that started as small bands of idealistic volunteers and became big and bureaucratized.

There is virtue in smallness, but it too has its attendant problems. How do you extend your reach to more communities if you remain small? How do you shape the spirit of volunteerism into something truly useful if there is no sustained recruitment and training of volunteers? The lesson this seems to teach is not so much the shirking of all attempts at professionalization, but the resolute avoidance of being ensnared by centralization, bureaucratization and organizational survival for its own sake.

In an earlier time, it was thought that the modern nation-state would make volunteerism superfluous. Today everyone assumes that what the State cannot do is better left to the market. Yet millions of poor people fall through the cracks of government and the market. Volunteer work takes up the cudgels for them. Sometimes volunteers realize that their work only results in the perpetuation of unequal structures, because, instead of allowing these unjust structures to collapse beneath the weight of the problems they spawn, volunteerism only serves to blunt the pain of the victims.

It is a paradox that erodes passion and commitment, but which no voluntary organization can resolve for anyone. Every volunteer will just have to figure it out for herself.

In any event, it will not take very long before people begin to realize that volunteer work is not enough, that it cannot take the place of concrete social reform. But the times seem hostile to deep reform. So many unarmed activists have been arbitrarily jailed or summarily killed. It is hard to imagine what may happen when all avenues to social reform are blocked. Will young people continue to take up with fervor the gentle cause of volunteerism? Or will they offer themselves one more time to the other face of volunteerism—revolutionary idealism? I refer, of course, only to those who have not yet given up.

INDEPENDENCE DAY 2007

Philippine Independence Day

Let us commemorate the 109th year of our independence. May this further translate into more meaningful ways.

Let us seek independence ...

from poverty
from hunger
from illness
from inequality
from social injustice

In your own little way, you can help create a more independent and progressive world.

Join CESDEV!!!

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED ...

VOLUNTEERS, VOLUNTEER!

We Welcome New CESDEV VolunteersAs we start the new school year 2007-2008, we are expecting new faces and youthful energies to engulf the expanse of UC Banilad. With the influx of Freshmen nursing students, we encourage that you get to know more about CESDEV. You might be interested to join and be one of our pool of energetic, dedicated, and goal-oriented CESDEV Volunteers.
We will soon be posting the schedule for CESDEV Orientation.

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