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Volume I, Issue 2, January 2001
Global Perspectives

How Can We Assure That the International Year of Volunteers 2001 Has a Global Impact?


Keyboard Roundtables
Moderated by Andy Fryar
Participants:
Ronda Bollwahn, Isobel Hume, Kang-Hyun Lee, Christer Leopold and Diane Morgan

The Global Perspectives Keyboard Roundtable asked colleagues from Wales, Korea, Australia, Switzerland and the United States to make comments on ways to maximise the International Year of Volunteers 2001 on a global scale. 

A number of key themes emerged:

  • The key focus of IYV in each participant's country,
  • Ideas for international projects during IYV2001,
  • Perceived difficulties/barriers to international projects and participation,
  • Possible solutions to those identified barriers, and
  • Volunteer centres and their role.

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Comments

Rob Jackson Royal National Institute for the Blind Volunteer Development Officer London England

February 21st, 2001, 2:57pm

Loads of great ideas. However, it strikes me as a shame that this discussion is taking place as IYV starts, rather than months or even years ago when we knew IYV was coming up. It doesn't have to take an organisation like Energize to get us talking. The web provides the means, we've just got to have the desire and vision to do the work to make it happen. I hope I'm wrong, but I can see IYV ending up as more of a multinational year of volunteering than an international one. If that happens I hope we are mature enough as a field to accept our responsibility for not making the most of the opportunity.