self reflection

Self-reflection on event volunteering

Helping in the growth of the society is every man assignment. Volunteering is one way of supporting that progress. As it’s my first assignment in volunteering, it was an incredible experience for myself. It started when the teacher divided us in groups and asks us to find an organization to have contact with and have a plan for our volunteering project ready before we start working with that group. It was a challenge for me because I must get out of my comfort zone; I always struggled interacting with people so I have to overcome this problem. After that I asked a friend who helped me in finding a new team called Absher who had some experience in volunteering with takatof and starts there own group which is sponsored by the military. So I contacted them and had my plan ready to submit it.

Absher team organized an introduction meeting and a quick summary on what we will be volunteering in, without explaining our job, which put us as volunteers in a stress mode because we didn’t know what we would be doing on that event. A volunteer is deferent from employees, they don’t know what they have to do until a short notice and most of them are not trained.

So at the end of March there was an event called ISNR, which is been organized by the minister of defense. And absher team was contacted to bring some volunteers who can help in organizing a part of an event, which is the fire fighter completion section.

            As in my experience with events in my job I know what is a well organized event. And I was shocked that there weren’t even close to ready at the day of opining.

The player’s stage wasn’t ready and seating places were not shaded. So they had postponed the competitions between the players three hours later.

The event was three days long I had some obstacles throw these days, like some volunteers aren’t responsible enough to do their job as organizers and guiders. Others like the event instructor who has no idea how to be a leader and take responsibility for his wrong orders.

I learned that having a good tem to work with is the number one requirement in a successful event. Also having a leader who knows how to guide people and takes employees suggestions in the event development helping is also a need for this.

As for volunteering experience some of the good experience that I had with it is I over come the problem that’s involved cooperating with people.

The next time I volunteer in an event or even an organization I will choose a good crew, assign a person who takes responsibilities for his actions a leader and make sure that instructors know about our struggles when volunteering