Two volunteer groups are actively working and developing on the territory of the Sheksninsky district: "Your Choice" and "Life Line".
We decided to ask the guys a question: "Why am I a volunteer?"

Elena Ryzhikova, coordinator of the volunteer movement in the Sheksninsky district:"The vacancy "volunteer" or "volunteer" is always open. There can be no superfluous or unnecessary people. Volunteer initiatives extend to almost the entire sphere of human activity - work with socially unprotected segments of the population (disabled people, the elderly, children); helping people who find themselves in difficult life situation; environmental protection; helping animals and much more.
I believe that if you are not indifferent to the fate of the people around you, nature, animals, if in your life you encounter those who need help, and would like to support these people, then the work of a volunteer is your vocation."

Anna Golubeva, member of the Life Line volunteer group:"The answer to the question "Why am I a volunteer?" is very simple: only a volunteer can see the most sincere smiles; only he can hear the warmest word - "thank you". Only a volunteer with his work can bring happiness to a large number of people. By volunteering, I give back to people positive emotions, and in return I get much more warmth. I really love my volunteer squad, because it was there that the most caring people of the Sheksna district gathered. Volunteering is cool!"

Svetlana Smirnova, member of the volunteer group "Your Choice":"I became a volunteer right after I found out about volunteering - four years ago. I really like helping other people, bringing them a piece of good. Volunteering is always a joy for me, because when you organize events with children or the elderly, in response you see their smiles, happy eyes and, of course, words of gratitude.And communication with older people gives a lot of new knowledge and ground for reflection.
Volunteers can actively communicate, as volunteer gatherings are organized, which bring together representatives from all districts of the Vologda Oblast. Volunteer, it's very interesting!"

Alexey Kurnikov, member of the volunteer group "Your Choice":"I am a volunteer because it gives me great pleasure to help people, it is very exciting. I try to use my free time to help make the world around us better and kinder. For me, the most memorable event was on the day of the village: we distributed milk, kefir and Ryazhenka. These events are necessary to promote a healthy lifestyle."

Natalya Gurieva, member of the volunteer group "Your Choice":"I am a volunteer and proud of it. I became a volunteer four years ago because I had a great desire to help people. I realized my dream and continue to do so. In addition, I have the opportunity to meet new people and become a useful person in society And volunteering is an opportunity to open up, to fulfill oneself, to help people and communicate with different segments of the population."

Volunteers and libraries – do they need each other? (post #2)

Dear Colleagues!

Squad of volunteers

Teenage rush!

He's on the shoulder

All good deeds

And the help of friends

It's hard to argue with that

Library

How important air is.

N.F. Dick

I can honestly admit that in our activities we did not attract volunteers, we did not work in this direction. For us, this is an unexplored area of ​​library activity. Yes, there are library friends, but it seems to me that these are slightly different concepts. For the purpose of self-education, as well as informing librarians like us, I will post information about the volunteer movement, forms of work with it, in order to understand how we can organize work in the library in this new direction for us.

Volunteering on an industrial scale

For those who want to attract volunteers to help in their work, M. Olchman, P. Jordan from Johns Hopkins University have written a special guide "Volunteers are a valuable source." Below are some highlights from the guide.

What is volunteering?

Volunteering is an unpaid, conscious, voluntary activity for the benefit of others. Anyone who consciously and selflessly works for the benefit of others can be called a volunteer.

Who can become a volunteer?

Most often, the answer to this question is this: it can be an adult, skilled and responsible, who can devote his time and skill to voluntary work. Everyone can become a volunteer in any area of ​​public life where there is a need.

What can volunteers do?

You can involve volunteers in those areas of activity that are not paid.improved, but remain important to the achievement of program objectives. For example, visiting the sick in hospitals, delivering groceries to the elderly who can no longer leave their homes, working with children at school, or drawing attention to a historical monument. etc. Any work can be done by volunteers. A volunteer is not only an assistant or a social worker who cares about others. He may be a teacher, a computer scientist, a politician, an engineer or a designer.

Volunteers can:

Perform tasks that are not related to permanent paid work;

Add a new dimension and new people to the organization;

Bring new ideas to the organization;

Create public opinion about the organization in society; Spread information about the organization in personal communication with people;

Help raise funds;

Encourage civic engagement.

Volunteer motivation.

Often, the motive for volunteer work is the need for contacts with other people, overcoming the feeling of loneliness. Volunteering responds to the natural need to be a member of a group whose values ​​and goals a volunteer can fully comply with. Motivation factors are reflected in the survey results:

I want to help people in need 61%

Hope to learn something new 46%

I want to have something to do 41%

For my own pleasure 31%

I want to meet new people 29%

I want to answer people for kindness with kindness 11%

I want to deal with a certain problem 7%

I have free time 4%

Often people cannot fulfill all their needs by working only in their profession. In this case, volunteer work can bring variety, allowing you to escape from the daily routine. Volunteer work helps to satisfy such needs as contacts with new people, self-satisfaction, promotion of some values.

Yes, the "allowance" is concise and dry, it is devoid of the romance and mystery that shrouded the Timurov movement, which we all remember, it does not contain installations on the voluntary-compulsory principle, according to which the squads gathered - "voluntary police assistants". But if you use all the opportunities that the Internet provides today - blogs, social networks, etc. - there will be many people with the same motivation who will come to the aid of libraries and will not only do useful work there, but also strengthen its social status .

Do Libraries Need Volunteers? Are libraries for volunteers?

(article from the newspaper TERRITORIA L (RGBM))

The answer suggests itself: Of course, volunteers are needed. As without them - especially small, especially rural libraries? Volunteers (they used to be called the reader's asset) have always been and, we hope, will be in libraries. But is everything so clear?

Isn't this a threat to the future of the library profession?

How does youth volunteering respond to the library's mission to become a "social lift" for young people? And how can and should we motivate today's young people to spend their time and energy on helping librarians and readers for free? After all, to the call “It is necessary, then it must be”, they answer: “Who needs this and to whom do I owe what?”.

And finally, youth councils consisting of librarians are actively working in Russian libraries. And in many foreign countries, youth councils are also successfully working, but readers' councils. Maybe worth a try?

To avoid discrepancies in the understanding of such a phenomenon as "volunteer activity", we will rely on the wording used in the Fundamentals of the State Youth Policy of the Russian Federation until 2025 approved by the order of the Government of the Russian Federation in 2014: “Youth volunteer (volunteer) activity is a voluntary, socially oriented and socially useful activity of young citizens, carried out by performing work, providing services without receiving monetary or material remuneration (except for cases of possible reimbursement of costs associated with the implementation of volunteer (volunteer) activity). One of the important tasks of the state youth policy is to create conditions for the realization of the potential of young people in the socio-economic sphere, as well as the introduction of the “social lift” technology.”

During conversation about volunteering in libraries we will operate at least three types of volunteering, which are named as follows:

a) library and information, cultural and educational,

b) unorganized (spontaneous, episodic help to friends, acquaintances) and organized (group),

c) non-formalized and formalized (regulated and documented).

The very concept of “volunteer” appeared in Europe in the 17th century.: so called volunteer soldiers (their reward was glory and prey). It came to Russian soil during the time of Peter I, although preference was given more to the domestic concepts of “volunteer” and “militia”. (The very idea of ​​voluntary, charitable assistance is rooted in the community system, the way of life of which dictated the conditions for survival in the form of voluntary, mutual assistance to each other).

What matters to us is that the world organized volunteer movement is rapidly gaining momentum. This is evidenced by the fact that 10 million volunteers are added every decade. To date more than 110 million people participate in various volunteer projects, programs, initiatives. The following statistics are given: 56% of Americans, 34% of Germans, 33% of Irishmen, 19% of Frenchmen joined the volunteer movement. Against this background, Russia is still seriously losing: So far, 1% of the population is engaged in volunteer activities.

The reasons are different. Some forms of organized volunteering have always been in Russia: in pre-revolutionary times in the form of service sisters of mercy, in Soviet times in the form of Subbotniks, Timurov, Pioneer, Komsomol movements, various societies for the protection of nature and monuments, etc. Frankly, many of these works were sometimes called "voluntary-compulsory." Perhaps this partially discredited the idea itself in the eyes of people. And in the 90s, when there was no Komsomol, no pioneers, no other public organizations, it sharply declined.

The situation was aggravated by the fact that, unlike many foreign countries, until recently there was no legislative support for volunteer work in the Soviet Union, and then in Russia, in principle. This means that there is no legal possibility to somehow seriously stimulate the work of volunteers. The development of domestic volunteering is also negatively affected by the fact that this activity is not counted as seniority. However, there is hope that this situation will still be resolved in a positive direction (but more on that later).

A sharp surge in the organized youth volunteer movement occurred during the Sochi Winter Olympics. Shortly before that, the State Duma was introduced Draft Federal Law No. 300326-6 “On volunteering (volunteering)”, adequately reflecting world approaches to this problem. However, to this day it has not been adopted, but, nevertheless, everyone is guided and referred to in one way or another.

The very same volunteer movement in the Olympic 2014 received a powerful start. Then the Association of Volunteer Centers was created as a continuation of the Sochi-2014 volunteer program. She became a catalyst for the development of the volunteer movement in Russia. Now there are more than 100 centers in 56 regions of the country and there are more of them every day. The work of the centers is coordinated by committees for youth affairs, universities, structures of the Ministry of Education.

The Russian State Library for Youth actively cooperates with the Association. In particular, in partnership with her, on February 16, 2017, the library hosted the Interdepartmental round table “Youth volunteering in the field of culture: existing and prospective versions”. As part of the round table online, a brilliant practice of interaction with volunteers was demonstrated by Samara Regional Youth Library, on the basis of which the "Volunteer Center" appeared in 2014. His main idea: volunteers are invited not only at the stage of bringing events to life, but also at the stage of developing an idea, when young people themselves offer an interesting format, topic, determine trends and trends .

The Association of Volunteer Centers is very optimistic about the interaction with the country's libraries and invites them to actively work with centers in the field. Here areas of projects implemented by volunteer centers in the regions: event, social, cultural and educational (focused on supporting cultural organizations, including libraries), medical, environmental, silver (older people), corporate (this is when librarians, with the support of their library, act as volunteers in relation to others), inclusive volunteering (involving volunteering for people with disabilities). Libraries, of course, "fit" in one way or another in all areas (except, perhaps, medical).

In recent years, many libraries have had the opportunity to experience for themselves, what is organized youth volunteering, which was largely fed by ideas produced by foreign volunteer movements.

With the unlimited possibilities of young volunteers, backed up by their powerful enthusiasm, the WGSR first encountered in 2011. Then an initiative group of students came to the library with a proposal to hold on its base an unknown at that time in the country the Living Library campaign (launched in Denmark in 2000). According to their plan, meetings of many people with non-standard personalities - “living books” were to take place on the territory of the library during the day. With the help of the Internet, the guys found 40 potential "living books", of which 25 were selected. Fifty volunteers were brought in, among whom were doctors, psychologists; their people kept order and fed the guests "tea and dryers"; the coordinators regulated the flows and took people (more than 500 of them) to the “living books” they liked. The action received a wide and powerful reflection on the network.

Since then, young volunteers, representing certain groups of like-minded people, almost daily offer the library various projects that are attractive to young people, which they are ready to implement on their own.

The RSSL has its own very interesting experience of attracting lone volunteers, which was later supported by other libraries. This is a competition of library projects "Factory of Ideas", which was held for two years in a row. Together, young people sent 70 projects: lectures, master classes, trainings, quests. Of these, 12 have been selected for implementation. Some (for example, the lecture hall “Simply Psychology”) have lasted for two years already.

In the last two years, unorganized (spontaneous) youth volunteering, focused on holding certain events, actions, lecture cycles within the walls of the library, has intensified in an extraordinary way. Everyone is eager to fulfill themselves, not demanding any material incentives from the library. It is enough for lecturers that a large number of people come to listen to them. And those who liked the lectures then attend the speeches of these lecturers at commercial venues. This happens quite often, and this is a normal phenomenon - a kind of compensation for voluntary work in the library.

Now finally, a certain constructive (formalized) component appears in the system of encouraging volunteers. At the initiative of the Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation in 2014, the registration of Russian volunteers began. Volunteer's personal book- This is a document containing information about the work experience of a volunteer, his incentives, additional training. For some commercial firms, these records (as well as letters of recommendation) are already a kind of evidence that the applicant has a certain experience in the relevant field. Currently, the Association of Volunteer Centers is preparing amendments to the legislation that would allow making records of volunteer activities in the work book. And then it will definitely be possible to say that volunteering is a form of “social lift” for young people.

Young people today are more, if not predominantly, inclined towards cultural and educational volunteering, associated with the participation and support of certain projects, promotions, festivals, and bright events. They are interested in it. Libraries need their help.

So the Mosvolonter Foundation was created in Moscow, in the base of which there are more than 15 thousand young people. Organizers of festivals and major events apply to the fund for volunteers. In 2016, we also used the services of the foundation, which provided us with 15 volunteers, to hold the Library Night.

But we could manage on our own if we had youth library council which we planned to create 5 years ago. Moreover, the initiative came from a young employee who herself was ready to lead it. We put up announcements, found how to motivate the members of the council, quickly gathered the ten initiative, held the first meeting ... But then everything stalled and quietly “died”. Because the members of the youth council wanted to participate only in what was fun and interesting for them to do, and the librarians could not, and were not morally ready to “tear off” any areas of work from themselves, to launch “strangers” into their territory. Now the situation has changed dramatically.

What is really worth entrusting to members of the youth council in Russian libraries? Let us dwell on only one - the social - aspect of work. Young people could provide assistance in transporting people with disabilities to library events, accompanying them to the library, and serving events with their participation. They can deliver books to those who are not able to visit the library due to old age, physical disabilities, and also because of the need for constant care of a child, a disabled person, an elderly family member. Some of the young people are capable of being a sign language interpreter, while others are able to establish contacts with temporary labor migrants.

I repeat in the Soviet years, there were always volunteers from among active readers in libraries(No wonder they were called the reader's asset). The librarians were assisted by adults, children and their parents, “grown up” child readers, not to mention their own relatives (primarily husbands), for whom work for the needs of the library sometimes became second in volume and importance after the main one.

What volunteers did in our libraries was not much different from what volunteers did, for example, in US libraries, which I met exactly 20 years ago during a business trip.

The essential difference was the following: if the relations of Soviet and then Russian libraries with volunteers were not formalized in any way, then in American libraries everything was strictly regulated and documented.

Here "Responsibilities of a Volunteer at the Norwich, Vermont Public Library."

"Responsibilities: Learn and enforce library policies and participate in library processes. Assist the librarian or assistant librarian in the following activities: accepting and lending books; help readers; arrange books on shelves; to answer phone calls; arrange index cards under the supervision of a librarian; enter data into the library computer; other activities as needed.

Requirements:Must love working with people. Library experience preferred .

Conditions: There are no fees or privileges. Work 25 hours a week with two Saturdays or 5 hours a week with work every fifth Saturday a month. Leave is not paid. Sick leave is not paid. The librarian should be notified about the vacation two weeks in advance (the duration of the vacation is up to 2 weeks). Vacation per year cannot exceed 4 weeks. Holidays exceeding 2 weeks are taken by agreement with the librarian 2 months in advance. Vacations are granted first to those who applied earlier. No more than one employee can be on vacation at the same time. When leaving, you need to help find a replacement for yourself. Every four hours of work, you can take a ten-minute break.

Volunteers should be treated in the most respectful and businesslike manner possible, guides Vermont librarians. It is necessary to draw up written instructions for the performance of certain functions by them, to provide volunteers with assistance in professional orientation, in training and improving their business skills. Any employee (paid or unpaid) must understand what is expected of him and how he meets these expectations.

What does a volunteer get in return? Librarians need to keep records of volunteer hours and tasks and projects completed for regular reporting to the public in the city or community . In order for volunteers to receive moral satisfaction and feel needed, some libraries arrange an annual gala lunch or picnic for them, others publish data about them in local newspapers or newsletters. In some places, volunteer training courses for certified programs are held.

On the face of it, serious work is being done to motivate volunteers to help the library, on the one hand, and on the other hand, the formalization of the relationship between the library and volunteers, up to the conclusion of an agreement, which, among other things, defines guarantees and incentives.

All volunteers wishing to participate in library life, must have references and complete a biographical questionnaire(including fingerprints). Contracts are signed with them.

This is a process of counter-movement. People, and with a certain level of qualification, should want and be motivated to work in the library for free. And the library should be ready to transfer some of the work that has either already been done by librarians (as a result, they can be reduced or transferred to other positions), or offer new types of work that the library plans, but it does not have enough human resources to perform them.

Major European and American libraries have come to see volunteering as a way to expand their services. It is believed that during the economic crisis and the resulting reduction in staff, the presence of volunteers helps to solve the personnel problem without attracting finance.

Today's practice of working with volunteers in libraries in many foreign countries gives amazing results. In Germany, for example, there are 6,000 municipal and 4,000 church libraries located in rural areas. 22% of employees of municipal libraries and 98% of church employees work on a gratuitous basis. This means that almost half of all public libraries in Germany are now run by volunteers.

In the UK, there are only 17 full-time employees in 36 libraries in one of the counties, the rest are volunteers and "friends of the library" groups (See Librarianship Magazine, No. 11, 2011). Not so long ago, a material appeared on the net, the author of which notes with satisfaction that against the backdrop of the closure of several hundred British libraries and the loss of work by almost 10 thousand librarians, there are positive trends: in parallel with a significant reduction in staff, an even more significant increase in library volunteers was noted - with In 2010, their number increased from 16 to 31.5 thousand.

The gradual transition of libraries from state to public funding is also evidenced by the fact that a significant number of them have been transferred from the jurisdiction of local municipal councils to the management of various types of public organizations.

This trend (skilled work is done by full-time employees, and low-skilled work is done by volunteers) is gradually taking over more and more countries. And how this phenomenon will develop further - time will tell, it is still difficult to predict. Much depends on the functionality of the library and its image in the local community, on the availability of free time for city residents, which they would like to spend on voluntary work in libraries (we made a six-hour working day in Sweden - how much time was freed up for good deeds!), on inclusion citizens in the management of the city, etc. But it is obvious that the replacement of librarians with volunteers and machines (RFID technologies, for example) will only increase further.

Let's sum up all of the above.

It is difficult and pointless to hope that the development of scientific and technological progress, on the one hand, and civil society, on the other, can be resisted by referring to traditions.

Volunteering, including youth, has good prospects. It reflects the general trend of interaction between the public and state organizations in relation to the population, primarily its social categories.

With a serious development of volunteering in the library, the question will arise of a clear delineation of functional duties according to the criterion of their complexity and specificity - first between full-time staff, then between full-time staff and volunteers.

In any case, the task of documenting the relationship between the library and the volunteer, a clear designation of requirements, conditions, guarantees, preferences, and motivators for volunteers becomes relevant. This is necessary not only for the library, but also to a greater extent for volunteers, especially young ones.

If volunteers are needed only for a certain time period and in groups, then it is more expedient to conclude an agreement with the regional center of volunteers.

An alternative to this could be the creation of a youth council in the library. To do this, it is necessary to identify problem areas in library processes that should be entrusted to volunteers. And it would be good not to forget: every good deed should be encouraged.

This world could be a little kinder. Believe!

Every day and every hour everything depends on us.

A ray of sunshine and children's laughter, happiness is enough for everyone!

(Hymn of the Volunteers)

Volunteer is a new term, but not a new phenomenon in the public life of our country. A synonym for the word "volunteer" is the word "volunteer". The volunteer movement has received modern development in connection with the growing number of social problems, in the solution of which volunteers are indispensable. At the heart of the volunteer movement is the age-old principle “If you want to feel like a person, help someone else”.

In April 2014, a volunteer group "Smile" was created at the gymnasium No. 1. The guys got their first experience at the MOU DOOTs named after. A. Matrosova during the summer environmental shift. There our name and motto was born: “To live without a smile is just a mistake, smiles everywhere - goodness everywhere!” Fascinating events and new friends will always be remembered, and a charity concert in the Tunoshna boarding house determined one of the main areas of volunteer activity - helping veterans. For the second year, volunteers organize the Gift to a Veteran campaign and go to the boarding house with charity concerts. They want to give warmth and care to every resident of the boarding house.

To support the families of high school students who find themselves in a difficult life situation, volunteers hold the campaign “Alien life is no longer a trifle!”, autumn and winter charity fairs. What is there just not there: gifts of summer, crafts, Christmas tree decorations, pastries! If you want, then listen to a song or participate in a win-win lottery. Children's fantasy, inspired by the idea of ​​goodness, knows no bounds.

The animal shelter "Vita" is also under the care of volunteers. The guys collect food, medicines needed by animals, care products. It turns out so much that parents can only take it away in the trunks of cars. All children want to caress a four-legged friend, take a walk with him, and three dogs have already found new owners and have become pets of high school students.

In the year of the 70th anniversary of the Victory, the volunteers of the “Smile” detachment took part in the “Volunteer of Victory” action. Voluntary donations made by the parents of the gymnasium students and residents of the former village of Smolenskoye made it possible to renew the monument on the grave of the anti-aircraft gunners who guarded the railway bridge across the Volga during the war years. Unfortunately, the search work has not yet yielded results, and the monument has remained nameless.

For the museum of the gymnasium, students and teachers created a Book of Memory, including forty-five stories in prose and verse about the children of the war, defenders of the Motherland, home front workers who brought us Victory. The memory of them was kept in the families of the children, and now it has become the property of all high school students, and will be passed on from generation to generation.

This year, volunteers participated in a series of training seminars held by the City Center for Extracurricular Activities, the “Give Good!” campaign, danced a flash mob at the “Spring Week of Kindness”, defended projects at the competition for the 5th anniversary of the Greendog charity organization. And how many more plans that are sure to come true!

UDK 378.183-057.875 Podkhomutnikova Marina Viktorovna

Candidate of Political Sciences, Lecturer at the Department of History and Cultural Studies

Kuban State University [email protected]

DEVELOPING YOUTH VOLUNTEERITY

Podkhomutnikova Marina Viktorovna

PhD in Political Science, Lecturer of the History and Cultural Science Department, Kuban State University [email protected]

DEVELOPMENT OF VOLUNTEERING AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE

Annotation:

The article discusses the role of the volunteer movement in the life of young people. Particular attention is paid to the organization of volunteering in higher education as an important component of the process of socialization of student youth, their social activity. The experience of organizing volunteer activities of students at the Kuban State University is analyzed.

Keywords:

youth, volunteer movement, volunteerism, volunteer center.

The article discusses the role of volunteer movement in lives of the young people, in particular, organization of the volunteering in the higher school. The volunteers’ activities are considered to be an important component of the students’ socialization. The author studies experience of volunteer services organization at the Kuban State University, and gives some guidelines for volunteers’ work improvement.

youth, volunteer movement, volunteering, volunteers' center.

One of the most noticeable trends that have emerged in recent years is the growth of volunteering (volunteering). Volunteering (volunteering) is the participation of people regardless of age, race, gender and religion in activities aimed at solving social, cultural, economic, environmental problems in society that are not related to making a profit. Youth volunteering is the practical volunteer activity of young people in the substantive solution of social problems, carried out without coercion and having a socializing effect on the subject of activity.

Currently, students play an important role in the development of volunteer volunteering. Volunteer detachments, organizations and movements arise and develop among student youth.

Volunteering as a youth movement in Russia is only gaining momentum in development. In many cities, it plays an important role. The city of Krasnodar is a platform for consolidating the efforts of public organizations, authorities in the development of volunteerism - one of the priority areas for the implementation of state youth policy at the municipal level. According to the order of the department of youth policy of the Krasnodar Territory "On the organization of volunteer (volunteer) activities in the Krasnodar Territory" dated June 1, 2010 No. 183, volunteer centers were opened in many higher educational institutions of the Kuban. The main objectives of these centers are: to provide young people with the opportunity to express themselves and realize their potential; formation of the public value of volunteering (volunteering) and positive public opinion regarding the participation of young citizens in voluntary (volunteer) activities; development of a system of information, consulting and educational support for volunteering.

On May 14, 2011, the Volunteer Center of KubSU officially began its work at the Kuban State University (KubGU). For the Olympic Games in Sochi, the KubSU Volunteer Center is to prepare and train 2,850 volunteers. The Volunteer Center united 25 volunteer teams from various faculties of the university. According to the Center, over the past three years, more than 4,500 students, teachers and employees of KubSU have taken part in 32 social events.

The mission of the KubSU Volunteer Center is to promote volunteerism, motivate and involve young people in voluntary work to promote Olympic values, in the name of the common good and increase the social capital of Russia, and the formation of its attractive image in the world community. Teachers, lawyers, public relations specialists, narcologists, youth workers, scientific library workers, etc. work with student volunteers at KubSU. The purpose of this work is to gain experience in volunteer work and then work independently in the youth environment.

The tradition of volunteering is strong at Kuban State University. Back in 1999, on the basis of an anonymous narcological cabinet, the Interuniversity Volunteer Organization of Krasnodar was created. The potential of volunteers working under the guidance of narcologists is used to prevent drug addiction among young people. The task of student volunteers is to motivate young people to solve their problems on their own without using drugs.

Volunteers do a lot of work among students, students of schools in the suburbs of Krasnodar: they take part in volunteer surveys, talk about the consequences of taking drugs, alcohol, smoking, hold round tables, trainings “How to say no to drugs!”, master classes, business games, aimed at strengthening personal resources. Before the survey with students, schoolchildren, volunteers conduct conversations about the goals of the survey and the importance of filling out the questionnaires correctly. After carrying out monitoring studies, analyzing the situation, planning and organization of preventive measures, approbation of the volunteer movement model in a problematic environment, preparation and publication of methodological recommendations and other anti-drug literature are carried out.

Volunteer students of KubSU have repeatedly participated in television and radio programs, published articles in newspapers and magazines of the regional and municipal levels. The guys took part in the implementation of the project of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation "From Heart to Heart" (Rostov-on-Don). The goal of the project is to create conditions for the effective involvement of young people in solving social problems and the exchange of experience among representatives of the Southern Federal District. This project took place in three stages, after its completion, the volunteers received certificates and volunteer books. The work of KubSU volunteers was marked by numerous certificates, thanks, valuable gifts from the administration of the city, the Karasun district, directors of schools in Krasnodar.

In 2002, a student pedagogical group "Leader" appeared at KubSU on a voluntary basis - a public association of students of various specialties and courses who voluntarily expressed a desire to participate in creative, socially significant activities in their free time from studies. The following year, the volunteer movement "Mercy" is created in the structure of the pedagogical detachment, for which the motto of life has become the words: "Hurry to do good, if you have time - you are lucky!". You can find out about the activities of this detachment on the website of the Kuban State University, where materials on volunteer actions are published. Within the framework of the Governor's charity program “Flower-Semitsvetik. Let's help children together

Every year KubSU holds volunteer campaigns to raise funds, as well as exhibitions and sales of children's crafts.

The guys who came at the call of their hearts do not stop there, they are looking for new forms of work with their peers to expand the volunteer movement. To date, there are more than 150 volunteers in KubSU who have received personal books of volunteers.

Volunteer (volunteer) movement in KubSU is a complex, dynamic, developing process. Despite the successes in the field of volunteerism, it is necessary to mention the shortcomings. For example, of the total number of volunteer teams created at the faculties, only a few are actively working, among them the volunteer team of the Faculty of Chemistry and High Technologies "Prima materia", the pedagogical team "Mercy" of the Faculty of Pedagogy, Psychology and Communications and the volunteer team "Watercolor" of the Faculty of Journalism.

Among the motives of voluntary (volunteer) activity, one can single out social motives (high demands on oneself, colleagues, the results of one's work, a sense of responsibility, duty, patriotism, compassion, etc.), cognitive motives, pragmatic motives, passion for external signs, motives for imitation.

The main motives for volunteering are:

The realization of personal potential, the manifestation of one's abilities and capabilities, the realization of human destiny. These are the leading motives for human participation in socially significant activities. An important role in maintaining this motivation belongs to a person's awareness of his own inner potential, the definition of a personal mission, and the choice of a life path.

Public recognition, a sense of social significance. It is important for a person to receive positive reinforcement of his activities from significant others, to establish himself in his own eyes, to feel his involvement in a generally useful cause. The basis of this motivation is a person's need for high self-esteem and appreciation from others. Such an assessment plays an important role in a person's choice of goals and objectives of his own activity, the direction of personal growth.

Self-expression and self-determination. An opportunity to express oneself, to declare one's position in life, to find one's place in the system of social relations. The need of a person to realize his own individuality, the uniqueness of his inner world and the desire to fulfill a role in society, according to his individuality, is the basis of the motivation for self-expression and self-determination.

professional orientation. Volunteering allows a person, especially a young person, to better navigate various types of professional activities, get a real idea about the intended profession or choose the direction of vocational training.

Acquisition of useful social and practical skills. Voluntary (volunteer) activity allows you to acquire useful skills that are not directly related to a person’s professional choice, but are important for life. These include the acquisition of skills in working with a computer, with various types of equipment, building skills, and experience in interpersonal interaction. The need for active and social development of the surrounding world, for the use of all the opportunities provided to man by society is one of the urgent needs of modern man.

The possibility of communication, friendly interaction with like-minded people. Volunteering allows you to find like-minded people, find a social circle that is meaningful to you, and get support in friendly interaction. One of the

Binary human needs - the need to be accepted and involved in personally significant social relationships.

Volunteering gives a young person the opportunity to express himself in various models of interaction, to acquire the skills necessary in later life for responsible leadership and performing activities. The need to gain experience in responsible interaction is a conscious social need.

1. On the organization of volunteer (volunteer) activities in the Krasnodar Territory: Order of the Department of Youth Policy of the Krasnodar Territory dated June 1, 2010 No. 183 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://rabotakuban.info/files/prikaz2010.doc (date of access: 4.12.2012).

2. Student pedagogical team "Leader". URL: http://kubsu.ru/Studlife/trudotr/leader (accessed:

References (transliterated):

1. Ob organizatsii dobrovol "cheskoy (volonterskoy) deyatel" nosti v Krasnodarskom krae: prikaz departamenta mo-lodezhnoy politiki Krasnodarskogo kraya from 1 June 2010 No. 183 . URL: http://rabotakuban.info/files/prikaz2010.doc (date of access: 4.12.2012).

At some point, fatigue covers everything: from the endless beauties of Instagram, and from the excessive creativity of VKontakte, and even from the politicization of Facebook. There comes a moment when you want to get up and go out into the street, see living people, tritely help at least someone cross the road in the subconscious hope that it will be filmed by video recorders, posted on the Web, you will share, and the blessed likes will flash red. You pull yourself up - it's not for the glory! You can earn a lot of likes by simply reposting a request for help, especially if you add a few words from yourself, put exclamation marks where necessary - we swam, we know. Conscience can be calmed by transferring money to the account of another fund. But at some point it ceases to be sufficient. And the need to do something good-great-eternal outweighs everything. You remember, you start to drive in all possible combinations with the word “good” in search engines, and at some point you hang on one of the sites. In my case, it turned out to be the site of the Danilovtsy volunteer movement, although I could just as well have stayed on Mercy or Big Brothers and Sisters.

It just happened. Matched on a plasticine baby elephant.

“Vanya is my very, very first ward. On my first visit to the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital (Russian Children's Clinical Hospital. - "NG-politics"), together we sculpted a baby elephant from plasticine. Seems like it was so long ago. October 27, 2012. A few years later they met again. He grew up, matured. More of a teenager than a little boy, whom I met in the fall of 2012. But what joy from the meeting! And he recognizes you, and you him! And now it turns out that the baby elephant has not gone anywhere over the years - he still lives at Vanya's house. On the shelf. Not thrown out. Not forgotten. There is a living memory of a small creative meeting. It would seem - a trifle, but how can a baby elephant be a trifle? is a story of a volunteer about the first meeting with a ward,

And now I also have my own baby elephant - very tiny, made of turquoise. Who is now always with me. Just a little reminder why I'm doing this. After some time, you lose the illusion that volunteering is for the sake of helping others, and you come to the realization that it is for the sake of your own salvation from the emptiness that swallowed you.

Becoming a Danilovite is not as easy as one would like. You have to sign up for an interview, accept the conditions of this organization, but also get the preferences that they have - the experience accumulated over seven years and 18 already formed help groups, including not only help for children, but also for adults. Plus, the opportunity to choose - the most active extroverts can choose groups to help children in hospitals and shelters, where you need to communicate a lot, engage in creativity with children, arrange a holiday for them, and the most closed introverts, for example, can choose a correspondence group with prisoners where you can communicate with them for many years. people without ever seeing them.

“At the first meeting with those who want to become our volunteers,” says Yury Belanovsky, head of the Danilovtsy volunteer movement, “we clearly define the scope of his competence. There is always an environment around any beneficiary: doctors, relatives, friends, educators, representatives of authorities, etc. A volunteer cannot, and we especially emphasize this, replace anyone from this environment, he must remain himself. For example, in a hospital, a volunteer cannot stand between a mother and a child, even if the mother is "out of her mind", the volunteer cannot question the doctor's prescriptions and, moreover, cannot prescribe treatment. The task of a volunteer is to integrate into the existing environment and provide assistance in cooperation with the entire environment of the beneficiary, building boundaries and trusting relationships.”

There are basic principles of volunteering, which you will also be introduced to: do no harm; be ready to help those in need, regardless of nationality, religion and social status; consider the interests of your loved ones; follow the rules; do not try to replace professionals (doctors, firefighters, caregivers); respect and maintain boundaries; invest effort, not money; rely on your real possibilities; work in a team.

If the above, according to some criteria, does not suit you or ceases to suit you after some time, you are free to choose. In the same way, the organization reserves the right to refuse to cooperate with you without giving reasons. And you also accept this rule, at the interview they explain to you why it appeared - Danilovites have a very respectful attitude towards volunteers: you have the right to ask all your questions and receive answers to them.

“Volunteers are not free labor. These are those whose hearts have responded to trouble. They are helpers and partners. We as an organization together with them are responsible for their work. As a rule, novice volunteers do not have qualifications and much experience. They are unable to effectively solve complex problems. Their work must be organized, divided into component tasks, they must understand the meaning and know the result. These are all the tasks of the coordinator that each of our volunteer groups has. With any problems that arise in the course of work, the volunteer first of all goes to the coordinator,” emphasizes Belanovsky.

In addition to the coordinators, the work of the volunteer group is accompanied by psychologists who hold both group meetings and individual meetings at the request of volunteers.

“What is the point of accompanying and supporting volunteers? For me, this question is somehow connected with the main philosophical question: what is the point of a volunteer coming to the ward? In my opinion, there can be two answers. The first - from the position of "strong". A volunteer is a kind of Batman who came to save the weak. Such a volunteer does not need training or support: that's why he is Batman. He can only develop his skills. And the second answer: man comes to man. One person, with his strength and weakness, to another such person. This view is extremely important for our movement. It is fundamentally important for me that volunteers are people too. These are people who, just like their wards, like any other person, need help, support and participation. When a person meets a person, there may be difficulties, misunderstandings, and mistakes in their communication. It's okay, that's life. In general, human-to-human communication is a whole art. Art, where there is a place for problems, especially when people with difficult destinies meet. And the fates are often difficult for both the wards and the volunteers,” says Lidia Alekseevskaya, coordinator for accompanying volunteers.

“It happens that a person (in our case, a volunteer) participates in several charitable projects: helps at a fair, visits children in hospitals, feeds the homeless, does something at charity repairs and at the same time he has a job, studies, helps friends, relatives , - says the psychologist of the volunteer movement "Danilovtsy" Svetlana Peregudova. - A volunteer can thus test himself for strength and at the same time feel that everyone needs him, can receive approval from the people around him for his activity, responsiveness, kindness ... But with all this, if a person does not have a clear understanding of why he needs it, what are his strength, that he replenishes in himself through this, there is no understanding of activity through his values, then he may face emotional burnout. Through good deeds, a person sets an ambitious goal to “help everyone”, while not being able to find a place for himself in this life, he tries to find him among good deeds, other volunteers or people who need help. All this eventually leads to excessive load. If a volunteer does not realize clearly and deeply what positive things his good deed brings to him, then there is a danger for him to be drawn into activities that destroy him.

I'm still far from that. Every time before I open the door to the wards, I clutch a small turquoise elephant in my palms as a reminder of how I got here and where I’m going, but you won’t be able to see it in any of my social media profiles - this is mine. a small victory over virtual reality and a step into real life.

Lana Parastaeva