What is the value of volunteer activities?

The spirit of dedication is noble and the essence of volunteer service. By participating in voluntary services, volunteers improve their ability to perform tasks and at the same time promote social progress.

Volunteer service is an indispensable part of almost every civilized society. It refers to anyone voluntarily donating personal time and energy to promote human development, social progress and Activities that provide services for social welfare undertakings.

Volunteer service has made important contributions to the improvement of welfare and social progress in developed and developing countries. It is an important part of humanitarian assistance plans, technical cooperation, improving human rights, and promoting democracy and peace between countries and the United Nations.

Extended information:

Volunteer service activities in our country developed with the reform and opening up and began in 1978. At the end of 1993, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League began to organize and implement the Chinese Youth Volunteer Action, and China's volunteer service entered an organized and orderly stage. After the implementation of the Chinese Youth Volunteer Action, volunteer services have become increasingly widespread, and the whole society's awareness of volunteer services has been greatly improved.

According to incomplete statistics, more than 5.06 million volunteers participated in earthquake relief and post-disaster reconstruction in 2008, and more than 1.7 million volunteers directly served the Beijing Olympics.

In response to the "Basic Specifications for Volunteer Service Information Systems" issued in October 2015, the relevant person in charge stated that three aspects of work must be done to implement and apply the "Basic Specifications":

Firstly, Implement informatization in work methods. In the process of volunteer service management, publicity, review, commendation and awards, certificate issuance, etc. must be completed through the information system in accordance with the requirements of the "Basic Norms" to ensure that the volunteer service management work is standardized, convenient, open and transparent;

The second is to achieve standardization in working methods. The "Basic Specifications" unified definitions of basic terms of volunteer services, basic functions of information systems and data elements, and unified specifications for several key links and key factors of volunteer service work. It is the specific practice of standardization in the field of volunteer services;

The third is to achieve scientific results in work results. The "Basic Specifications" mainly stipulates the basic data elements, functional requirements, information sharing and exchange interfaces, security requirements, etc. for the construction of volunteer service information systems. It does not apply the architecture of the basic specifications of general information systems, and it does not apply to system performance indicators, hardware Configuration, operating environment, etc. are specified.

It is reported that in order to coordinate and promote the implementation of the "Basic Norms", a working mechanism has been established at the national level with the overall guidance of the Central Civilization Office, the specific promotion of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the full cooperation of the National Youth League Central Committee and other relevant departments. At the same time All localities are required to establish and improve joint working mechanisms for volunteer services as soon as possible.

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