Dec 17, 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
Ambassador Nabila Makram: It is necessary to join hands in order to raise Egypt’s ranking in volunteering by establishing a camp for volunteers and their leaders
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 concepts of sustainable development.
Within the framework of celebrating #International_Volunteer_Day
Misr El Kheir Foundation organized a round table on the role of civil 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 touched on the launch of the Egyptian Volunteering Index The first Egyptian national report on volunteering and the official launch of the Arab Sunbula Award for Green Volunteering also discussed empowering civil organizations to support volunteer movements to contribute to achieving sustainable development goals, enhancing cooperation to build Arab alliances to support volunteer movements and disseminating the concept of green volunteering, with the localization and dissemination of the international index of volunteering among the authorities concerned with volunteering inside Egypt. The round table discussed the international volunteering report issued by the United Nations Volunteer Program in 2022 on the state of volunteering in the world, which indicated that the monthly issue The number of volunteers around the world reached more than 862 thousand volunteers, ranging in age from 15 years and above, explaining that the monthly number of volunteers in the Arab countries reached more than 26 thousand volunteers, stressing that this size of Arab volunteers can become an added social and economic value for 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 Developmental Action, appreciated the role of the Misr Al-Khair Foundation. And her 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, monitoring and developing their practices to support their community initiatives, and enhancing the ability of civil organizations to attract volunteers and invest their efforts in community development.
While Dr. Mohamed Rifai, CEO of the Misr El Kheir Foundation, said that the Foundation always seeks to create a stimulating environment for civil work and focus on successful models of influential community initiatives and shed light on those Illuminating models and encouraging the repetition and preservation of these successes, pointing to the launch of the Foundation through the Arab Volunteering Club, “The Arab Sunbulah Green Volunteering Award,” which aimed to monitor the best volunteer initiatives, especially those aimed at achieving sustainable development goals and green volunteer practices.
Refai stressed the continued interest of the Misr El Kheir Foundation in developing minds first, based on its official slogan, which is “Human development is our primary mission,” stressing the importance of volunteering for community development.
For his part, Dr. Mohamed said Mamdouh, Head of the NGO Development Sector at the Misr Al Kheir Foundation, said that the Arab Green Volunteering Club, affiliated with the Arab Center for Sustaining Civil Work at the Misr Al Kheir Foundation, seeks to build an interactive platform among Arab volunteers, facilitate the exchange of experiences among them, and support the direction of civil society 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, most important of which is qualifying volunteers and developing their volunteer practice within Arab societies.
The table came up with a set of recommendations. The most important of which is
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.
🟢Calling the bodies 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 Misr El Kheir Foundation.
🟢Coordination between the various bodies concerned with volunteering to issue a national strategy for development Volunteering.
Inviting the Misr Al Kheir Foundation to expand the activities of the Arab Green Volunteering Club and supporting the establishment of volunteer units within civil society organizations.
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