The next morning, Tang Yi came to work early. Director Lu, Chen Mengjuan, and Li Yujiao also arrived one after another, talking about the salon with interest, waiting for Yang Chao to arrive.

At about nine o'clock, Yang Chao also rushed over, looking like a dusty man.

Other participants also arrived one after another, adjusted slightly, and the theme salon soon began.

Yang Chao first took the stage to preside: "All volunteer representatives welcome you to participate in this salon, the theme of this salon is "take the initiative to enter the community, strive to be a volunteer pioneer". At present, volunteering and public welfare have become a trend, but many volunteers and voluntary organizations are mostly unilateral and scattered actions, and they are secretive and dare not make a big show. Volunteering is a noble business, giving to the community, helping others, and bringing heat and energy to the surroundings.

Today, I organized everyone to participate in this salon to do some useful discussions from our perspective, solve this puzzle, and encourage everyone to volunteer with a more active attitude. ”

"At present, there are three forms of volunteer service in China, one is official, normal, but the masses do not recognize, such as the World Health Organization, the Red Cross Society of China; the second is semi-official, that is, civil society organizations, the public welfare teams, they have great enthusiasm for service, but they are affected by funds, venues, talents and social atmosphere can not be carried out, such as the offices in the north, Shanghai NGO organizations, etc.; the third is the idle volunteer teams and individuals of the people, they have a heart of fraternity, all have the good quality of helping others to be happy, but engaged in volunteer service and are afraid of hands and feet, unable to do so。 ”

"China's volunteer service must not be equated with foreign public welfare actions, but must combine its own nature and characteristics, and organically combine paid help with warm feedback. ”

Now, please share your experiences based on your own practice. ”

The audience looked at each other.

The first to take the stage was Deputy Guo from North China University of Science and Technology: "Today, the president is a little too busy to do anything, so he sent me to be a representative." Perhaps what I am talking about is not representative enough. When our association was first established, everyone was full of confidence and enthusiasm, and when they were on campus, they did do some public welfare activities, such as blood donation and fundraising, but in the end, they delivered their goals to the community, signed an agreement with the community, and provided services free of charge. However, from the perspective of practice, the practice in the community cannot be carried out very continuously. One is that our planning often has to be changed, one is that the community often only gives us some transactional and simple work, which is very different from the original intention of volunteering, and the third is that as a free service, the volunteer team members often have no enthusiasm and gradually alienate themselves from the community, which is the dilemma of our volunteer service community. ”

The representative of Hebei Institute of Technology went on to share: "The most realistic point is that although volunteering is a public welfare activity, it will not work without funds. In many cases, volunteer service is often too simple because of the lack of funds, the thinking is limited to a certain atmosphere, the activities are difficult to carry out, and the volunteer members are often not motivated because of the lack of funds, and the follow-up activities are often intermittent and cannot achieve the expected results. This may be a common problem of public welfare activities. ”

Representative Qi of Xisanqi Community College: "Serving the community and contributing to the community is the fundamental purpose of the volunteer team, but in many cases, service needs real benefits, not empty words. This requires having resources in hand, whether it is in kind, interests, or human support, otherwise entering the community will become a form of formality, which cannot be accepted by the community and the service recipients. The lack of resources is a shortcoming of volunteering so far, which often makes volunteer organizations not widely accepted by the community and cannot be sincerely supported by the beneficiary groups. ”

Representative Ke of the Green Group in Lan Jingli: "Volunteer service is based on a heart of love to serve the surrounding and the group. However, volunteer service needs to see the effect, one can not do bad things with good intentions, and the other is that people can't go to the tea and cool, and return to the original after doing things, then volunteer service is equal to no effect. This may involve the issue of measuring the consequences of volunteering. For example, when the volunteer service comes, the surroundings are very clean, and sometimes the behavior of littering and trampling the grass recurs, that is, the results are not returned to the family and follow-up, so that the original service is in vain. ”

Representative of Zixia Community Zhuang: "Serving the elderly is a seemingly simple but meaningful job. Our team often goes into the community, nursing homes to participate in services. But the main thing is to talk with the elderly, activities, and do not involve other more detailed services, which is the nurse's business. However, if they are active regularly, young social workers are often psychologically unable to bear it due to the old age and physical defects. This is another conundrum of volunteering. ”

After listening to the sharing of volunteer representatives, Yang Chao summarized that "public welfare activities are not popular in China at present, on the contrary, there will be many difficulties and problems. Just now we all talked about the dilemma, in fact, where is the public welfare activity as you said, I think we should be proud of volunteering. ”

Yang Chao obviously ignored the emotions of the participants, and wanted to go on, but suddenly paused, at this time, several of us signaled with their eyes to share, Wang Chao continued, "In fact, there are many benefits of volunteering, such as the feedback of the service recipients. For example, the physical and mental pleasure of volunteering. ”

A representative of the Zixia community answered, "I share a story of our volunteering. At that time, we visited the lonely old man, and the conversation was better, and the old man kept asking where the volunteers were going, and wanted to recognize the volunteers as goddaughters. ”

"The community wanted to give holiday cards and gifts, but we refused, but our volunteer activities continued. The representative of North China University of Science and Technology continued.

"So volunteering is still a thing that we young people should insist on, no matter what, we should play the role of helping others help themselves, and radiate our positive energy to the people around us. ”

Yang Chao still speaks alone, he is very good at speaking, but because of this, he has slightly deviated from the mode of the theme salon.

It was close to twelve o'clock and the salon ended.

As an observer, Tang Yi sometimes sweated for Yang Chao. Overall, the salon was successful, but there were several flaws, one was that the host was too good at talking, and one person dominated the meeting, the second was the lack of sharing, and the sharing of members was not tapped or even stifled, and the third was that the theme salon was held as a complaint meeting, which deviated from the original intention of positive guidance.

But how can there be perfection, the theme salon will continue to come, and I will take it as a warning next time.