Employee Volunteering

programme

19 Sep 2013 at SCSM

Voluntary

Organizational Contribute

labor and time

Not for ProfitCharitable

Volunteer

What is Volunteering?

• Develop their soft skills – leadership, time management, problem solving skills

Impact on employee

• Refine existing skills and gain new knowledge

• Improve mental and physical health

• Motivation

• Increasing employee productivity and loyalty

Impact on company

• Aligning positive outcomes for poor people with strengthened business supply chains

• Demonstrating your business understands its role in society and its place in the community

Impact on people’s lives

• Volunteer employees sharing their skills with developing communities is a catalyst that enables people to help themselves out of poverty.

The important benefits of employee volunteering come not from the fact that it exists, but from the way in which it is carried out.

What? VSO is a development organisation that fights poverty through volunteers.Vision:

Our vision is for a world without poverty.Mission:

Our mission is to bring people together to fight poverty including education, health, secure livelihoods, gender equality and advocacy.

When?VSO began in 1958, 16 young British volunteers to teach English.

So far more than 40,000 VSO volunteers of 94 nationalities have made a difference in 90 countries.

The VSO ripple effect

VSO Volunteering

VSO Volunteering

Accenture - VSO

Google – VSO (UK and India)

• Google linked with VSO and their employee volunteering programme

• sent employee volunteers from USA and placed in India through VSO

• VSO India organised In Country Training, short term placement for Google employees with local partner organisations.

Google - VSO India

P&G - VSO China

• P&G has been making donations to build Hope Schools in China for 15 years

• VSO provided “Preparing to Volunteer” training to mobilize and equip P&G employee volunteers to

provide help for Hope School student’s ‘Live, learn and Thrive’

Lenovo - VSO China

• Lenovo has become the largest PC maker in the world and its corporate volunteering strategy in China

incorporate its business and people strategy

• VSO China supported Lenovo China Volunteer Association in capacity building and strategic planning

• Consultation

• Tailored Trainings – Volunteer programme development and

management– Working with NGOs– Volunteer pre-departure

VSO in Thailand

Hattaya.Wongsaengpaiboon@vsoint.org Hattaya.w@gmail.com

www.vsointernational.org

VSO office : Sukhumvit 1302-651-2610-2

VSO in Thailand