Okay, so good morning my dear students. Our next topic is the Republic Act 9418 or Volunteer Act of 2007. So according to the Republic Act 9418, it should be the policy of the state to promote the participation of the different sectors of the society, international and foreign volunteer organizations in public and civic affairs, and adopt and strengthen the practice of voluntarism as an approach in order. Reach national development and international understanding.
Every Filipino should be educated of voluntarism. volunteerism, foster social justice, solidarity, and sustainable development. Okay, so some may find it ironic that a law on volunteerism was passed. Okay? So, why is there a need for a law on something that is inherently a social value and a positive one that is intended to achieve a common good?
Is there really a need for such legislation? The reason and the answer can be gleaned from the Declaration of Policy of Republic Act 941A or as I have said a moment ago, the Volunteer Act of 2007. Okay, so this legislation recognizes that voluntarism or bayanihan can be harnessed. As a strategy for national development and international cooperation. So the Act commits government to partnership to achieve the needed social transformation and sustainable development through the so-called voluntarism. Now, to achieve...
There are three main interrelated objectives of the Volunteer Act of 2007. First is to provide the policy framework that shall underscore the fundamental principles necessary to harmonize the broad and diverse efforts of the voluntary sector. Okay, next is to provide a conducive and enabling environment for the mobilization and nurturance of volunteers and volunteer organizations. And lastly, strengthen the Philippine National Volunteer Service Coordinating Agency or PNVSCA as an effective institution to support volunteerism in a country. Okay, so being a framework, the Volunteer Act recognizes the different roles of different sectors of society, including the government. This task, To provide the environment for a voluntarism, prosper.
It shall be facilitative, coordinative, and promotive in performing its functions. Okay? Now, um... Let me elaborate a little bit on the academe.
So the Volunteer Act specifically calls for integrating volunteerism in the education curriculum. So, this proposal will encourage academic institutions to continuously devise ways to effectively teach and practice the value of voluntarism. Okay, so such integration provides students with the volunteering arena by which they can channel their idealism and vigor into something worthwhile.
Okay, so with the Volunteer Act of 2007 class, the academe is... to renew and assume a more dynamic role, more so in participatory governance and other developmental advocacies as volunteerism move to higher levels of civic engagements. So that is the goal or those are the goals of the Republic Act 941A. So next is Voluntarism.
So let us discuss the concept of Voluntarism. So it is defined here that volunteerism is an act that involves different activities which includes a traditional form of mutual aid and interventions provide an enabling and empowering both on the part of the beneficiary and the volunteer. Okay? So it is also a powerful means for bringing more people into the fold. It strengthens civic engagement, safeguards social inclusion, deepens solidarity and solidifies ownership of development results.
It simply is not possible to attain the SDGs without a wide range of people engaged at all stages at the same time. all levels at all times. Okay.
So, volunteerism class is an act involving a wide range of activities including traditional forms of mutual aid and Developmental interventions that provides an enabling and empowering environment both on the part of the beneficiary receiving and the volunteer rendering the act. So undertaken for reasons arising from socio- developmental, business or corporate orientation, commitment or conviction for the attainment of the public good and where monetary and other incentives or reward are not primary motivating factors. Voluntarism in the Philippines class is deep-rooted since volunteer activities have been practiced for generations.
So the word bayanihan refers to old traditions of values and is often characterized as mute. assistance. Okay?
For example, when community member Members help other members to transport their house to a specific location. The word bayanihan can be seen as the traditional Philippine expression of the so-called volunteerism. So that is your volunteerism.
Next. is your volunteer. Okay, so what is a volunteer?
Okay, so it is an individual. He or she is an individual or group who contribute time, service, and resources whether on full-time or part-time basis to adjust an essential social development cause, mission, or endeavor in the belief that their activity is mutually meaningful and beneficial to a public interest as well as to themselves. Okay, so... There are five major types of volunteer activities implemented by different stakeholders in the Philippine Society class. First is your government-supported volunteering.
Next is... We have academic-based volunteering. Another is volunteering for non-government organizations. Another is corporate volunteering and have also foreign-supported volunteering.
Let us discuss this one by one. Okay, so what is a government-supported volunteering? Okay, so the government supports two national volunteer programs. So we have volunteers for information and development assistance and the national...
program for government service called Bayanihang Bayan which is established in 1991. So it has been piloted in four national government agencies. So we have Department of Environment and Natural Resources or your DENR, Department of Health, Commission on Higher Education or your and the Department of Social Welfare and Development or your DSWP. Okay, that is your government-supported volunteering. Okay, how about an academic?
based volunteering. Okay? So, academic institutions in the Philippines have been coordinating volunteer projects.
Okay? Structured volunteer activities occur at the level of higher education. institutions in collaboration with local communities.
Okay, so private non-sectarian institutions are the most numerous among such establishments in the country, followed by private schools and state universities and colleges. So, that is your academic-based volunteering. Okay.
We have also volunteering for non-government organizations. So, NGOs with different areas of work arrange projects and programs and assign local volunteers as well as international volunteers now the top contributors to voluntarism in the non-profit sector class are organizations classified as a culture and recreation groups Development and housing, organizations and unions. So, your NGOs tend to cooperate, network and create partnership with private organizations or your POs, local communities. your lgus as well as with international okay partners okay so examples of large philippine ngos with volunteer workers are hands on manila international association for volunteer effort of course we have the philippine red cross And the scout movement that is divided into girls and boys scouts.
Okay. That is volunteering for non-government organizations. Okay.
Another is your corporate volunteering. Okay. So, volunteering in the Philippine business sector is a component of of CSR project or corporate social responsibility projects.
So the companies make investments in community-based projects and the employees participate in volunteer work in local communities during their working hours. The common action Activity is the build a home program for Habitat for Humanity International, a non-profit ministry that works to eliminate poverty by providing housing. So that is corporate volunteering.
Okay, last is the foreign-supported volunteering. Now, foreign-supported volunteer activities. have increased through funding from the Germans, the British, the Americans, the Koreans, and Japanese in recent years. So, foreign-supported activities cover both volunteering by foreign nationals and external development of Filipino volunteers.
In exchange programs of the Bahaginan Foundation and the United Nations Volunteer Program. So that is the five major types of volunteer. Next is volunteer service organization. It is a local or foreign group that recruits, trains, deploys and supports volunteer workers to programs and projects implemented by them or by other organizations or Any group that provides services and resources, information, capability building, advocacy, and networking for the attainment of the common good.
Okay, so international volunteering covers both Philippine volunteers sent overseas and A foreign volunteer sent to the Philippines. The number of incoming volunteers is higher than the number of outgoing volunteers. So, the government is in partnership with a group of foreign agencies that collaborate in programs with focus on...
peace, socio-economic development and exchange of expertise. The professionals from the Philippines are sent to work as volunteers in developing countries by the United Nations Volunteers Program and the Bahaginan Foundation and foreign professionals are sent to work as volunteers in the Philippines. So, there is no statistics or research that sum up information about the private organizations involved in internal volunteering in the country. So, volunteer projects can be in short term.
or long-term periods with private funding okay so the recruitment of volunteers with special skills in areas of socio-economic development is not as important as the target of the organizations okay So last is the Republic Act 7722 or the Higher Education Act of 1994. Okay, so the Republic Act 7722 is the act creating the Commission on Higher Education which covers both the public and private institutions of higher education. higher education as well as degree granting programs in all post-secondary educational institutions, be it public or private. One of the powers and functions of this Act, which is in line with the goal of National Service Training Program, is to identify Support and develop potential centers of excellence in program areas needed for the development of world-class scholarship, nation-building, and national development.
So, to ensure that quality education is given to The citizens of the Philippines, the government had vested its powers to different administrative agency to make sure that this right granted to the citizens will not be infringed. So the commission... on higher education was created to govern mainly the higher education or otherwise known as the tertiary education. Now, the commission is a body independent and separate from the DepEd and attached to the office of the President for So its coverage shall be both public and private institutions of higher education as well as degree granting programs in all post-secondary educational institutions, public and private.
As a commission created to govern The higher education, it follows the mission of gearing higher education towards the pursuit of better quality of life for all Filipinos by emphasizing the acquisition of knowledge. and formation of those skills necessary to make individual a productive member of the society. So, it shall accelerate the development of high-level professionals who will search for new knowledge. And provide leadership in the various disciplines required by a dynamic and self-assuring economy.
In short class, the mission of the Commission on Higher Education is what is stated. In section 1 of article 14 of the constitution, okay? Which is to provide quality education to the citizens and make education accessible to the citizens.
Okay? So, that ends our discussion. Okay, so thank you for listening.