Who Does AVS Serve?
AVS seeks to achieve its objectives through working with: - Individuals - Groups - Schools and Universities - Students - Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) - Recipients of Service - Financial Supporters of NGOs - Lebanese Government - Lebanese Public
Individuals AVS seeks to help individuals (regardless of age, gender, sect, location, time constraints, abilities, and disabilities): • Know that they can and should make a positive difference in their society. • Find opportunities to serve their society through volunteer work. • Find opportunities to learn the many ways in which volunteering can be of value to themselves while being a service to society. • Learn how to be better volunteers. • Establish new non-governmental organizations to address needs not served by existing ones.
Groups AVS seeks to help groups (clubs, classes, families): • Find group opportunities for volunteer service within their region or in other regions of the country. • Find opportunities to interact with other sectors of Lebanese society through volunteering. • Learn how volunteering can strengthen the internal bonds within the group, and give the group a greater sense of purpose, while being a service to society.
Schools and Universities AVS seeks to help the administration and faculty of schools and universities: • Teach good citizenship through volunteer service. • Incorporate volunteer service into the curriculum (service-learning). • Incorporate service obligations into graduation requirements. • Find volunteers to enhance their own programs. • Design scholarship funding programs which link scholarships to service. • Do research on service organizations and volunteerism in Lebanon.
Students AVS seeks to help students: • Find service opportunities which fulfill course or graduation requirements. • Design research papers and course projects which can serve society. • Organize service clubs and service opportunities based in their schools. • Finance their education through scholarships having a service component.
Non-Governmental Organizations AVS seeks to help non-governmental organizations (NGOs): • Find volunteers to enhance their own programs. • Learn how to use volunteers more effectively • Become aware of other service organizations, agencies, and governmental programs which may be of help to them or which they may help. • Contribute to developing good citizens through their use of volunteers. • Learn of funding opportunities and how to best apply for them. • Inform the public of what they are doing and what their needs are.
Recipients of Service AVS seeks to help individual recipients of service: • Have their needs addressed through the help of volunteers • Maintain or even increase their self-esteem through - Encouraging volunteer services which lead to their greater self-sufficiency - Having recipients of service work with those helping them, if possible - Providing opportunities for recipients of service to, in turn, serve others
Financial Supporters of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOS) AVS seeks to help embassies, foundations, organizations, and individual philanthropists (both in Lebanon and abroad): • Inform NGOs in Lebanon about their funding policies - what they fund and how to apply. • Learn about NGOs in Lebanon which deserve their support. • Design ways in which scholarships at Lebanese academic institutions can be linked to service requirements. • Contribute more and contribute more effectively to NGOs in Lebanon. Lebanese Government AVS seeks to help the Lebanese government: • Work cooperatively with NGOs to meet the needs of society. • Work with NGOs to develop in its citizens and residents a greater sense of social responsibility. Lebanese Public AVS seeks to help the Lebanese public: • Become aware of existing service programs in Lebanon: who they are, what they do, and what needs they have for volunteers, goods, and financial support. • Interact across social boundaries of age, sect, ethnicity and physical limitations through giving and receiving volunteer assistance.
Lebanese Government AVS seeks to help the Lebanese government: • Work cooperatively with NGOs to meet the needs of society. • Work with NGOs to develop in its citizens and residents a greater sense of social responsibility.
Lebanese Public AVS seeks to help the Lebanese public: • Become aware of existing service programs in Lebanon: who they are, what they do, and what needs they have for volunteers, goods, and financial support. • Interact across social boundaries of age, sect, ethnicity and physical limitations through giving and receiving volunteer assistance.
The Association for Volunteer Services www.avs.org.lb
MISSION: To promote, facilitate, and improve volunteering and community service throughout Lebanon.
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