Exploration of new pattern of community volunteer service

Voluntary service originated in the western countries in the beginning of the nineteenth Century religious charity. Volunteers and volunteer activities have been in the world for more than 100 years, in order to solve various social and global issues, to safeguard the common interests of mankind has made outstanding contributions. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan defined as volunteers and volunteer service: volunteers are not for material reward, based on moral and belief and conscience, compassion and responsibility, to improve the society and provide services, personal contribution of time and effort and the crowd. Volunteer service is refers to the use of their time, their skills and their resources, their kindness for one's neighbors and community to provide non-profit, non professional assistance. The United States is the world's highest rate of voluntary service, the participation rate of 50%. Citizen participation awareness is very common, the average adult engaged in 4.2 hours a week of voluntary service.
For China, volunteers and volunteer service is an exotic. The earliest volunteers from the United Nations volunteers. In 1979, the first United Nations Volunteers came to China to work in the remote areas of China, engaged in the environment, health, computer and language services, opened the prelude to the Chinese volunteer service. In the middle period of the eighties of the 20th century, the call of the Ministry of civil affairs to promote community volunteer service, Heping District, Tianjin New Street is early development of typical of community service, the establishment of the the first community volunteers association. After nearly 20 years of development, the community volunteer organizations in our country is becoming more and more perfect, the team is growing, and has become one of the largest two volunteer teams in China.
At the same time, we should also see that the plight of the development of community volunteer service. First, the public is still not enough for the volunteers to understand, deep. Because of the lack of recognition of the activities of the system, it can not effectively motivate the participation of the whole society. Two is the lack of sound laws and regulations and the organization system to protect the public's effective participation in community volunteer service. Three is the shortage of funds is one of the major obstacles to the domestic community volunteer activities. The development of community volunteer activities is very limited, the role of volunteer activities is also difficult to play. In this case, 2002 May Beijing Chaoyang District Jiuxianqiao streets, creating the will volunteer service and community party build combined in various communities to & ldquo; Little Red Riding Hood & rdquo; to identify to carry out community members, gang activity, and achieved remarkable results, for community volunteer service provided to explore a new path of development.