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Voluntary service
It is a voluntary relief movement not prompted
in any manner by desire for gain.
Analysis of the Fundamental principle of Voluntary service
The text under the Fundamental principle of Voluntary service includes
the following elements:
- the Movement is a voluntary relief movement;
- the Movement is not prompted in any manner by desire for gain.
Consequences of the Fundamental principle of Voluntary service
The consequences of the principle of Voluntary service are as follows:
- the Movement is a volunteer-based organisation;
- if the Movement fails to recognize the value of voluntary it
is in danger of becoming bureaucratic, losing touch with a vital
source of motivation, inspiration and initiative, and of cutting
off the roots which maintain its contact with human needs and
enable it to meet them;
- Voluntary service, a source of economy. Imagine how much suffering
would have to be neglected, for lack of means, if all the work
done by volunteers had to be paid for. It is sometimes sufficient
to have a relatively small but motivated support staff, with the
necessary minimum of financial resources, to enable volunteers
to render community services whose cost could never be borne either
by the National Society or by the State.
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