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HISTORY AND MISSION OF IAVE
The International Association for
Volunteer Effort (IAVE) was created in 1970 by a small group of people from
throughout the world who shared a common vision of how volunteers can
contribute
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To the solution of human and social problems, and
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To the development of bridges of understanding among people of all
nations.
They recognized the importance of international exchange of information,
best practices and mutual support as a way of encouraging and
strengthening volunteering worldwide. IAVE is the only international
organization with the mission to promote, celebrate, and strengthen
volunteerism worldwide.
IAVE's work falls into six
major areas:
Conferences,
Volunteer Centers,
Education and Training,
Public Awareness,
Youth Involvement, and
Membership
Services.
BIANNUAL
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
IAVE holds a major international conference on volunteering every two
years. This is a valuable opportunity for local, national and
international organizations to network, to share ideas, and to work
together to promote volunteering. Participants include
organizations that promote volunteering (like AVS) and organizations
that involve volunteers in efforts to achieve their objectives (like all
the organizations affiliated with AVS). AVS was represented at the
past four international conferences by its president and director, Dr.
Patricia Nabti:
16th Annual Conference in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands (January
2001)
17th
Annual Conference in Seoul, South Korea (November 2002).
18th
Annual Conference in Barcelona, Spain (August 2004)
19th Annual Conference in New Delhi, India (November
2006)
The
20th annual conference is scheduled to be held in Panama in April 2008.
REGIONAL
CONFERENCES
IAVE holds regional conferences in different world regions in alternate
years when there is no international conference. Dr. Nabti attended the
Asia-Pacific regional conference in Hong Kong in 2005.
The next Asia-Pacific Regional Conference will be in Japan in December
2007. There has never
been an IAVE regional conference in the Arab region.
NATIONAL
AND REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF IAVE
AVS is the National Representative of IAVE in Lebanon. For
more information about IAVE you are invited to contact the AVS office or
visit the IAVE website:
www.iave.org.
The Regional
Representative of IAVE for the Arab Nations is Milo Ghossein, a citizen
of Lebanon and formerly the
National Representative of IAVE in Lebanon.
He can be reached by phone at: 961-3-318332 or 961-9-230171 or by
email at:
milogh13@hotmail.com.
RESOURCES
The IAVE website provides valuable resources on volunteering, including
a list of national volunteer centers, conferences, funding sources,
research, and links.
MEMBERSHIP
Membership and active participation in IAVE is the way in which
volunteer leaders demonstrate their solidarity with the growing
worldwide volunteer movement. Members of IAVE receive:
- The monthly E-IAVE electronic newsletter
- Preferred access to the services of the
International Resource Center on Volunteering
- The opportunity to participate in planning
and implementing IAVE's activities
- The opportunity to vote on IAVE's board of
directors and World President
- Discounts on registration fees at the 2006
World Volunteer Conference in New Delhi, India
- Discounts on registration fees at periodic
regional conferences
- Periodic printed newsletters
For more information on
membership and to download a registration form, go to
http://www.iave.org/membership.cfm.
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