Giving Back While at Work: 32 Percent of Workers Volunteer Through Company Programs | TheLedger.com
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Giving Back While at Work
Giving Back While at Work: 32 Percent of Workers Volunteer Through Company Programs | TheLedger.com
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Mandela Day
As the United States promotes a National Day of Service to correspond with Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, many others promote service on Mandela Day, a holiday to honor Nelson Mandela's sixty-seven year struggle for equal rights in South Africa. Organizers remind us that Mandela gave 67 years to improve the world, so it is not much to ask that we give 67 minutes to celebrate his contributions.
In reporting on volunteer work associated with Mandela Day, This Day Live, Nigeria's paper of record, highlights the benefits of skills-based volunteering, meaning the activity utilizes and develops work-related competencies, as well as the need for activities to be voluntary.
One employee of MTN Group helped a local community repair a water borehole, reducing the amount of time women walked to collect water and helping ensure a safe water supply. A group at the MTN Johannesburg office assembles bags with soap, toothpaste and a toothbrush, combs, and other items to be distributed through police stations to women who have been raped and have had to turn over their clothing for evidence.
The article notes:
To many, the culture of volunteerism and compassion for others instilled by companies does not fade when the volunteering period comes to an end. It has become a way of life, whether in MTN’s vision of education related volunteerism or simply caring for someone’s well-being.
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