The volunteering activities are much in digital mode. The recruitment of volunteers, staff, procurement of items, service, movement of volunteers & staff, campaign, accounting, report writing, and communication much on digital mode. The citizens are more using this mode.
The International Organisation are using this system much beforehand but the present pandemic has forced them to those who are not doing one year before.
The meetings, webinars, film festivals, performing art activities, and inauguration of the projects all are in virtual mode, these are some of the practices of the present.
A private group on social media started about 10 years back to promote volunteerism in Red Cross Red Crescent. This group is having members of about 792 they are from 89 countries and 100 cities. The post includes visuals, data, and publications from ICRC and surveys of opinion.
Virtual Volunteering
The above statement is of the 21st century, what was the condition of 50 years back? Our country had an experience of refugees from the neighboring country, we had to arrange for their humanitarian services the International Committee of Red Cross and other donor agencies also helped in this effort.
I was a college student of the age of 21 years. I had noticed the volunteers of the Disaster Training Institute (DTI) of the Indian Red Cross Society in central Kolkata went to help with this work. I learned the art of volunteerism from them and still, I am practicing. The Institute is no more functional. I have still contact with one of the instructors Mr. Kajal Sen, who is at the age of 82years. I have been to so many National level Institutions of the Indian Army, State Bank of India. The mode of instructions at DTI still superimposed to me. Visual of Kajal Sen at Facebook
Dr. Robin Chatterjee
Mr. Kajal Sen
Dr. Robin Chatterjee at Facebook
