{"id":307,"date":"2010-12-06T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyoteblog.posterous.com\/international-volunteer-day-for-economic-and"},"modified":"2017-05-04T17:21:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T00:21:23","slug":"ivd2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2010\/12\/ivd2010\/","title":{"rendered":"International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 5 &#8211; today &#8211; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/volunteerday\/\">International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development<\/a>, as declared by the United Nations General Assembly per its resolution <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/ga\/search\/view_doc.asp?symbol=A\/RES\/40\/212\">40\/212<\/a><\/span> in 1985.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is not a day to honor only <em>international<\/em> volunteers<\/strong>; the <em>international<\/em> in the title describes the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>day<\/em><\/span>, not the volunteer. It&#8217;s a day <strong>to honor, specifically, those volunteers who contribute to economic and social development<\/strong>. <strong>Such volunteers deserve their own day<\/strong>. Such volunteers are part of the reason <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forumer.com\/jcravens\/&amp;thisy=2009&amp;thism=11&amp;thisd=30\">I bristle at all the warm and fuzzy language used about volunteers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a shame to try to turn the day into just another day to celebrate any volunteer &#8212; there are plenty of days and weeks to honor all volunteers and encourage more volunteering; why not <strong>keep December 5 specifically for volunteers who contribute to economic and social development<\/strong>, per its original intention?<\/p>\n<p>And just to be clear: by <em>volunteer<\/em>, I mean someone who is <em>not<\/em> paid for his or her service, and if he or she has a &#8220;stipend&#8221;, it covers only very essential expenses so the volunteer can give up employment entirely during his or her stint as a volunteer, rather than the stipend being as much, if not more, than some mid and high-level government workers of a country are making. Yes, that&#8217;s a dig.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotecommunications.com\/volunteer\/asavol.html\">how I volunteer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 5 &#8211; today &#8211; is International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development, as declared by the United Nations General Assembly per its resolution 40\/212 in 1985. 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