Volunteering in different spheres of society

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning

Week 4

Looking at volunteering in different spheres of society.

During the summer of 2012 the Olympic Games were held in London. David Moorcroft is a former athlete. At one point he held the world record for the 5,000 metres. David can be heard discussing the importance of volunteering the Olympic Games.

Zoe Hall is a lady who was one of the volunteers at the Games. She talks about the event and how important it was at the time as well as how much it has inspired her to continue working as a volunteer.

This link is about half way down the page.

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/

Listen again and see if you can work out the answers to these questions about the interview:

1.                  How old were the Games volunteers? _____________of all ages__________

2.                  During the Games, the volunteers had a special title. What was this special title? ____________Games Makers_______________

3.                  Complete this quote from David… “… for a moment in time volunteering had a _________________profile_________ and an _______________images_______________ that they fully _______deserved_______________ but don’t always get.”

4.                  David mentions that some of the volunteers are semi-retired. What does this mean? ____________that they are working and having a free time________________

5.                  Zoe worked in Events Services. Where was this located?

 _____________event series at the Olympic stadium ______________

6.                  How does she describe the experience of volunteering for the Olympics and Paralympics? ______Best experience in her life________________

7.                  What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?

a.       ______________fun________________

b.      ____________satisfication_______________________

c.       __________meet new people____________________

d.      ___________improve confident________________

8.                  Why does David feel that volunteering in the community is so important?

__________________help community and organizations that relies on the volunteering ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 This page is also from AGE UK.

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/volunteers-week/

What volunteer roles do the following people have?

	Name	Job
1	John McArthur	Admin and information, to regain his self-esteem and confidence.
2	Samarah Hashmi	Survey analyst, the job provided her with extreme valuable work experience.
3	Oliver Stannard	Copywriter, enjoying the different experience.
4	Stanley Parker	Market drayton shop, he wants to help the less fortunate society.
5	Camilla Williamson	Not mention, she found it both interesting and useful.

Look again at these people and their jobs. What can you say about volunteering from the information in your chart?

They are all of all ages, the volunteering helped them meet new people and improve confidence and it was fun, interesting and useful for most of them.

Have a look at this page on the internet: http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/browse/sectors/education.html

This page has some ideas about how people can volunteer through education projects.

Once you have read through the pages, you need to work in groups of 4 or 5.

In your groups, come up with a project which you think can be advanced through an educational setting. There are no restrictions, but your idea should be innovative and should aim at adding real value to the people you are trying to help.

As you are working through your project, one of you should be putting together a short presentation (Powerpoint, etc) to explain to the rest of the group what you are trying to achieve.

You should aim to cover the following points, at least.

1.                  What are the aims of the project

2.                  Who are the target audience, and why?

3.                  What activities would your project involve?

4.                  Who would be volunteering? Why?

5.                  What are the benefits your project could bring to the target audience?

6.                  How would you look into launching your project with reference to the relevant authorities in the UAE and in the country you have targeted?

7.                  What problems do you think you might come across and how would you try to get around them?

You should aim at one or two of your group making a 4-6 minute presentation to the rest of the group explaining your findings.

Maslow’s Human Needs Pyramid

Psychologist Abraham Maslow first introduced his concept of a hierarchy of needs in 1943. This hierarchy suggests that people are motivated to fulfill basic needs before moving on to other, more advanced needs.

As people progress up the pyramid, needs become increasingly psychological and social. Soon, the need for love, friendship, and intimacy become important. Further up the pyramid, the need for personal esteem and feelings of accomplishment take priority. Maslow emphasized the importance of self-actualization, which is a process of growing and developing as a person in order to achieve individual potential.

This hierarchy is most often displayed as a pyramid, as shown below. The lowest levels of the pyramid are made up of the most basic needs, while the more complex needs are located at the top of the pyramid. Needs at the bottom of the pyramid are basic physical requirements including the need for food, water, sleep, and warmth. Once these lower-level needs have been met, people can move on to the next level of needs, which are for safety and security

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Types of Needs

Maslow believed that these needs are similar to instincts and play a major role in motivating behavior. Physiological, security, social, and esteem needs are deficiency needs (also known as D-needs), meaning that these needs arise due to deprivation. Satisfying these lower-level needs is important in order to avoid unpleasant feelings or consequences.

Maslow termed the highest-level of the pyramid as growth needs (also known as being needs or B-needs). Growth needs do not stem from a lack of something, but rather from a desire to grow as a person.

Five Levels of the Hierarchy of Needs

There are five different levels in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs:

1.     Physiological Needs
These include the most basic needs that are vital to survival, such as the need for water, air, food, and sleep. Maslow believed that these needs are the most basic and instinctive needs in the hierarchy because all needs become secondary until these physiological needs are met.

 

2.     Security Needs
These include needs for safety and security. Security needs are important for survival, but they are not as demanding as the physiological needs. Examples of security needs include a desire for steady employment, health insurance, safe neighborhoods, and shelter from the environment.

 

3.     Social Needs
These include needs for belonging, love, and affection. Maslow considered these needs to be less basic than physiological and security needs. Relationships such as friendships, romantic attachments, and families help fulfill this need for companionship and acceptance, as doe’s involvement in social, community, or religious groups.

 

4.     Esteem Needs
After the first three needs have been satisfied, esteem needs becomes increasingly important. These include the need for things that reflect on self-esteem, personal worth, social recognition, and accomplishment.

 

5.     Self-actualizing Needs
This is the highest level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Self-actualizing people are self-aware, concerned with personal growth, less concerned with the opinions of others, and interested fulfilling their potential.

Human Needs Activity 1:

 

List the levels and specific Maslow’s human needs required by the following cases

 

Case	Level	Specific needs at each level
A child in a hospital	1	Medical Attention
A physically disabled person	1,2,3,4	Support from other people and money
A lonely poor old lady in Sri Lanka	1,2,3	Food and Social
A shy rich widow who has a loving family and friends but has not achieved much in life	4,5	Problem Solving
A family trapped underground because of a bomb shell	1,2	Food and safety
An orphaned child who was forced to work to make a living	1,2,3	Food, safety and house to live
Physically and mentally abused person	3,4	Family affection and self esteem
A father who lost his job and has a family to support	2,3,4	Money, house and property

 

Human Needs Activity 1/2:

 

 

Match the specific needs with the five levels by writing the level number in front of each need.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Human Needs Activity 2:

 

Working in groups, discuss and answer the following questions:

 

1.     Does every human being have the right to reach the top of the Maslow pyramid?

 

Yes

 

2.     Does every human being have the capability of reaching that level?

 

Yes

 

3.     What are the opportunities are needed to get to the higher level?

 

You neeed resources and support from family and friends and to be health.

 

4.     What are the obstacles could stand in the way of reaching these levels?

 

If you are poor or physically disabled.

 

5.     What could you do to help others to reach the higher levels?

 

Support them mentally and with money.

 

You – Tube:

 

3 min - basic  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH04OsNuvcw

 

NEW:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM8SwZkvCIY 

 

Movie – stop 6.40’ 

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzQ9vrvTAtk