Shamaa Volunteer Week
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FOR ALL ARAB YOUTH VOLUNTEERS:
SHAMAA YOUTH VOLUNTEER WEEK
(July 25-31/2011)
The Association for Volunteer Services hosted the First IAVE Regional Volunteer Conference for The Arab Nations on March 2011 in Beirut, Lebanon. At the conference, the Youth Forum came up with a youth initiative called “Arab Youth Forum for Volunteering" which has an abbreviation in Arabic of “شمعة Shamaa ”(candle).
The goal of Shamaa ( www.arabvolunteer.org/shamaa ) is to serve the Arab world via volunteering and especially youth volunteering. Because we - the youth - believe that the Arab world is in need of our support and efforts to rise up to high levels. Is there a better way than volunteering?!
We look at Shamaa as group of youth from the different countries in the Arab world who gathered under one spirit, which is serving the community through volunteering. And as we all know that the candle burns itself to light the way for others, we will be doing the same, giving of ourselves to our communities.
It has been decided that the last week of July 2011 will be the week of volunteering for Shamaa (July 25-31/2011).
So we invite you all to join us for this special week. All you have to do is get a group of youth together (5-30 years old), decide on a volunteering project, and execute it during the last week of July.
Please pass this on to other Arab youth and youth NGOs so we can have as many participants as possible.
We have a number of online resources at www.arabvolunteer.org/resources that can help you, including
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How to Plan and Implement a Project
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Ideas for Service Projects
Once you have decided on your project, please fill the form on the website: www.arabvolunteer.org/shamaaform. We will then try to post them for all to see.
Thank you.
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