VOLUNTEERS
We are convinced that volunteering is key ingredient in the management of the society, its resources and maintaining peace and orderliness. We create a community that works together towards transformation of lives and creating active participation by all in developmental the processes.
Our destiny lies in our hands. When people work in one accord, the society moves forward. A vibrant society is all inclusive. A vibrant community begins with you!
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Commitment Statement To Safeguarding
Our safeguarding commitment is to ensure that children and adults are protected from both deliberate and accidental harm and abuse caused by Gender Development Initiative’s staff and other representatives.
Categories of Volunteers: All our volunteers are guided by our safeguarding statement. We look at the opportunities the volunteers fit into for rewarding volunteering experiences.
- Social Action volunteers: Consist of volunteers, mostly retirees and artisans who render their services free of charge to the organization, helping GenDi to carry out activities in communities under our coverage.
- Retirees and Core Professionals: These are professionals who are retirees or in service, who enrol to volunteer their free time to helping communities under our interventions. They could be nurses, medical doctors, accountants etc. They engage in some of the following activities
- Counselling and mentoring of children and community members
- Helping ad supporting various departments such as accounting.
- Supporting rape survivors, people experiencing GBV among others
1. Young Graduates and Youth Volunteers: These categories of young people enrol on our scheme to acquire experiences and build their capacities on community engagements. Some of these categories include youth corpers, young graduates etc
- Project Based Volunteers: Consist of volunteers who are residents within the communities within which our projects are based. They support our community interventions around sensitization, education, empowerment etc.
- Informal volunteers: They spare their time and resources to attend to the needy in the society. They can serve by:
- Sewing uniforms for the indigent children in rural areas
- Sewing menstrual pad for girls
- Sewing facial masks for health workers, frontline workers etc
- Paying for school fees
- Buying food for the needy
- Helping with menial jobs
- Remote volunteering: Provides an opportunity for community members anywhere they are, to volunteer from the comfort of their offices and/or home. Needs of the community and persons being served is taking into consideration while recruiting them. They assist with activities such as:
- Management of the website and social platforms
- Help mobilize funds for specific interventions.
- Providing psychosocial support and counselling for people under our intervention
GET INVOLVED TODAY.
If you have passion for helping the less privileged and willing to contribute to attaining enhanced quality of life for community members, then you are at the right place to volunteer. We also welcome support to helping in meeting with the mission of the organization
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Feel free to link us up, join our team of fund raising experts to mobilize funds to support our activities, join our board of advisors and make our engagements a lot more robust
From time to time, we recruit people with experiences and from various background to enhance our roles. Contact us today to learn about our work (+2348033469577).
We are:
- Advocates: We advocate with groups and individuals to foster an healthy community.
- Promoters: We strengthen the capacity of our volunteers and communities under our intervention
- Defenders: We intensify voices for inclusion of the marginalized.
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“Key on our goal is our resolute to strengthen the capacity of members of the communities within which we work.” “We provide quality access to information and support various engagement plans.”
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