Fri, Apr 26, 2002 - Page 2 News List

Volunteer activity catches on in the global community

With Taiwan's government trying to increase the level of volunteerism among its citizenry, Liz Burns, world president of the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE), has some definite ideas about how a government should interact with the volunteer sector. The recipient of the Order of the British Empire for her decades-long devotion to volunteering talked to Monique Chu and Heidi Chang of the Liberty Times group yesterday in Taipei about her life's work

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Most importantly, government can work with the sector to create a policy framework for the development and support of volunteering in the medium term and the long term.

But volunteering is a political issue, not necessarily party political, and it needs to avoid becoming a political football. ... What we need is cross-party support. We need all parties to recognize that volunteering is a significant contributor to a good society.

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