Volunteers are cost-effective . Volunteers are not paid, but organising them costs money. Even so, work done by volunteers has been proven 2 to 8 times as cost-effective as work done by staff. Clearly, we need professionals in voluntary organisations too, but with the purpose of facilitating voluntary humanitarian action. This is why it is so important to improve our volunteer management, adapting organisational structures and upgrading the skills of staff in order to inspire more voluntary action.
More voluntary action is needed to meet the challenges that humanity is faced with today.
What a responsibility on us to act and to encourage more action, and what a responsibility on the world community at large to do more to support the work of volunteers. .