This document discusses volunteer work, specifically volunteering by families in schools through parents' organizations. It defines volunteering as involvement without receiving money and outlines three pillars that volunteer work is based on: motivation, conciliation of issues, and legal issues/competences. The module aims to explore what volunteers want, know, and can do through a series of activities examining profiles of volunteers and how to address lack of motivation, knowledge, or abilities. It also highlights examples of innovative fundraising campaigns by rural schools.

1. Volunteer work

2. As a brief introduction to this module we would like to do a clarification on what we understand
for some concepts:
Participation: the right we have to
engage in society and in the decision-
making process about issues which
impact our lives
(see the module Community
participation)
Democracy: a type of political system
based on the people.
It is the people who elected their
representatives at decision-making
bodies (you can watch the video in the
next slide: What is Social Democracy?)
Active citizenship: involvement of
individuals in public life and especially in
the life of their communities with the aim
to improve it through their personal
skills.
Volunteering: in the context of families,
education and schools, the involvement
of families in Parents’ Organisations.
When you are engaged with the Parents’
Organisation of your children school(s)
and you don’t receive money for it, then
you are a volunteer.

3. This module deals with this issue,
volunteering and families at schools. The
volunteer work is based on three pillars:
Motivation
Conciliation
issues
Legal issues, context,
competences, skills
Volunteer work
KNOW
WANT CAN

4. Before start, you will
find a brief and fun
video about
volunteering

5. Module structure:
Volunteer work
Activity 1: I want
Activity 2: I know
Activity 3: I can
Activity 4: It’s better if we are together at school (Roma People)
Activity 5: “Talking Roof Tiles” – an innovative fundraising campaign Rural Schools)
Activity 6: Bus for 1 zloty (Rural Schools)
Contents block 1
Me as a volunteer

6. Module structure:
Volunteer work
Contents block 2:
Volunteer work in my
organisation
• Volunteer profiles
Activity 1
• What if we don’t have the WANT?
Activity 2
• What if we don’t have the KNOW?
Activity 3
• What if we don’t have the CAN?
Activity 4