A PROFIL OF A VOLUNTEER

                           WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A GOOD VOLUNTEER ?

ROMANIA

-     Volunteers can be girls or boys, women or men, young adults or elderly, students, employed, unemployed, homemakers or retirees, people from the country or city, healthy or disabled people, Christians, Jews, Muslims or any other religion.

-     A volunteer is a person who takes the initiative and not expects things around him to improve by itself.

-     A volunteer is a person who freely gives of his time and the skills to the others around him who need help.

Some say that volunteers are idealists who believe they can change the world. We say that volunteers are realistic because they prove, by their actions, that they can change it.

PORTUGAL
A volunteer should:
        -   support a cause that he truly believes in;
        -   feel the personal satisfaction of helping others;
        -   try to make the world a better place;
        -   enjoy to meet new people, and make new friends;
        -   use his own skills and experience to help and enrich the local community;
        -   not expect to be rewarded for his work;
        -   be willing to learn from others; have an opened mind, a willingness to do whatever is    needed, and a positive attitude

SPAIN

Being a good volunteer

-   Being a good volunteer is thinking about others;

-   A good volunteer is the one who does not expect anything in return;

-   A good volunteer is someone who enjoys helping others;

-   A perfect volunteer is someone who puts some others ‘needs to his own ones;

-   A good volunteer is someone who tries to make a better world.

POLAND

A good volunteer (pupils and teachers) should be:

-    Always ready to help;

-    Responsible and systematic;

-    Sensitive to the suffering of others;

-     Reasonable and caring;

-     A person who gives a good example of his/ her behavior;

-     Tolerant to others.

And we think the most important is that A GOOD VOLUNTEER SHOULD BE ALWAYS PLEASED TO PERFORM HIS/ HER DUTIES.

ITALY

-     A good volunteer worries about others before worrying about himself;

-     A good volunteer prefers giving much more than receiving;

-     A good volunteer considers the needs of others regardless of race, religion and nationality;

-     A good volunteer aims at making the world a better place to live in;

-     A good volunteer is one who is capable of saving, caring, sharing and cooperating without expecting anything in return.