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Misr Al Khair organizes a round table on the role of civil society organizations in supporting green volunteering
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Dec 19, 2024
Under the title "Volunteering for Sustainability"
Misr Al Khair organizes a round table on the role of civil society organizations in supporting green volunteering
Dr. Mohamed Rifai: Misr Al Khair always seeks to create an environment stimulating for civil work and focus on successful models of community initiatives
Dr. Mohamed Mamdouh: We seek to build an interactive platform among Arab volunteers and facilitate the exchange of experiences and integrate the concepts of sustainable development
Misr El Kheir Foundation organized a round table on the role of civil society organizations in supporting green volunteer movements, under the title
"Volunteering for Sustainability", within the activities of the Arab Green Volunteering Club and the Arab Center for Sustainable Civil Work.
The round table discussed the international volunteer report issued by the United Nations Volunteer Program in 2022 on the state of volunteering in the world, which indicated that the monthly number of volunteers around the world reached more than 862 thousand volunteers, aged from 15 years and above, explaining that the monthly number of volunteers in Arab countries reached more than 26 thousand volunteers, stressing that this size of Arab volunteers can become a social value. And economic addition to sustainable development and climate action in the Arab region if it is properly employed and invested.
For her part, Ambassador Nabila Makram, Head of the Technical Secretariat of the National Alliance for Private Development Action, appreciated the role of the Misr Al Khair Foundation and its effort in volunteering, stressing that the Foundation is able to turn the volunteer into a brilliant volunteer who helps the community, which contributes to the growth and investment of volunteer movements in society. She pointed out the importance of qualifying volunteers and monitoring and developing their practices to support their community initiatives, and enhancing the ability of civil society organizations to attract volunteers and invest in them. Their efforts in community development.
While Dr. Mohamed Rifai, CEO of the Misr El Kheir Foundation, said that the Foundation always seeks to create an environment stimulating for civil work, focusing on successful models of influential community initiatives, highlighting those bright models, and encouraging the replication and preservation of those successes, noting that the Foundation launched, through the Arab Volunteer Club, the “Arab Sunbulah Award for Green Volunteering,” which aimed to monitor the best volunteer initiatives, especially those aimed at achieving sustainable development goals and practices. Green volunteerism.
For his part, Dr. Mohamed Mamdouh, Head of the NGO Development Sector at the Misr El Kheir Foundation, said that the Arab Green Volunteering Club, affiliated with the Arab Center for Sustaining Civil Work at the Misr El Kheir Foundation, seeks to build an interactive platform between Arab volunteers, facilitate the exchange of experiences among them, and support the trend of civil organizations to integrate the concepts of sustainable development and climate action into volunteer work and spread the culture of green volunteering, in addition to working to confront the challenges facing volunteer work, the most important of which is rehabilitation. Volunteers and developing their volunteer practice within Arab societies.
The table came up with a set of recommendations, the most important of which
The importance of coordination between research bodies in Egypt to conduct in-depth studies of the reality of volunteering in Egypt, especially in light of the lack of studies on volunteers and volunteering.
Inviting the parties concerned with volunteering to cooperate together in designing an Egyptian national index for volunteering to be applied annually. The attendees suggested that this could be done under the umbrella of the National Alliance for Civil Action and the Egypt Foundation Goodness.
Coordination between the various bodies concerned with volunteering to issue a national strategy for developing volunteerism.
Invitation to the Misr El Kheir Foundation to expand the activities of the Arab Green Volunteering Club and support the establishment of volunteer units within civil society organizations.