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Amity's Volunteers Click below to go directly to the paragraph you want:-
What Makes a Volunteer Volunteer? Our Volunteers are the very life’s blood of the organisation. Without their dedication and support we would be unable to fulfil our aims and objectives. We recruit Volunteers by a variety of means; they come from all walks of life and their backgrounds reflect the multi-cultural society in which we work. The common thread they share is their delight in the pleasures brought by writing and reading and their wish to impart these skills to those who have not had the good fortune to acquire them.
Our focus on the "one-to-one" approach means that the training of Volunteers can concentrate on imparting the teaching skills necessary for their specific student and their needs at that time. This task is accomplished on a week to week basis by means of ongoing tutorial training under our Supervising Tutors. The ongoing training is supplemented by more formal Training seminars held regularly, outside the Club’s evening sessions and typically led by Gladys Zonena Glascoe, our Founding Organiser.
Retaining the Commitment and Developing the Skills For many Volunteers, what starts out as a commitment to teach, turns into the joy of imparting knowledge to a Student who soon becomes a friend. The dedication of the Student reflects the Volunteer’s own commitment, bringing with it a genuine sense of imparting skills of value and worth. In addition, Volunteers gain valuable skills, both in terms of teaching and social awareness; in short through their involvement a Volunteer develops a greater awareness of today’s society and is better equipped to face its challenges. A significant number of our Volunteers stay with the Clubs for several years; we greatly appreciate their value and commitment.
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