January 12, 2010
AVS Hong Kong workshop C7 at the 20th IAVE World Volunteer Conference, Panama 2008
VOLUNTEER ACTION FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
presented by Mr J P Lee, SBS, OBE, JP, Chairman of Agency for Volunteer Service at 20th IAVE World Volunteer Conference
2 - 5 April 2008, Panama City
Established in 1970, Agency for Volunteer Service (AVS), the Hong Kong Representative of IAVE, is the leading non-profit organization dedicated to playing a proactive and pivotal role in building a civil society and caring community through the promotion and development of sustainable volunteerism. AVS develops partnership with all sectors of the community to mobilize and facilitate individuals and groups to provide quality and value-added volunteer service.
AVS upholds the values of human dignity, care and share, community oriented, innovativeness, quality, cost-effectiveness, partnership, professionalism and sense of fulfillment. It promotes volunteerism, offers volunteer referral, volunteer and volunteer management training services, and organizes innovative and large-scale volunteer projects in response to community needs.
In the past year or two, AVS has assumed a more active role to participate in public issues related to volunteerism, attempting to influence policy decisions for human development in line with the ethics of volunteerism. In this regard, three different cases are presented demonstrating AVS as a pivotal organization in promoting volunteering.
These are:
a) Volunteer safety and protection
b) Government consultation on public service broadcasting
c) Government consultation on constitutional development
