Volunteering Is SEXY

Volunteering Is SEXY

An international Youth Forum was held just prior to the IAVE World Volunteer Conference in January 2001 in Amsterdam. By all accounts this was an extraordinary experience for the participants. Representatives of the Youth Forum were invited to report back to the full conference at one of the plenary sessions. They charged onto the stage with enthusiasm, sharing the theme of their meetings: "Volunteering IS sexy!" These young people urged everyone to change the old-fashioned images of volunteering.

Conferees were given a handout with eight graphics designed by the young people during a team exercise at their Forum. Each gives a different interpretation of "SEXY" as an acronym. e-Volunteerism is pleased to reproduce these with permission from the Amsterdam conference committee, representing the International Association for Volunteer Effort.

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Thu, 08/30/2001
These posters are great. This was an excellent idea to use to interest young people in volunteering.

Sun, 08/12/2001
I think that a lot of thought and effort and certainly creativity has gone into the development of these posters. Will they be available internationally for programs to use? I do have one concern, though -- given that not many words start with "x", there has been a lot of creative spelling used (i.e. "xcellence"). Because I work in literacy, this type of thing drives me a little batty -- it is very frustrating and confusing for people with low literacy skills to see spellings such as these; they think that this is the correct way to spell a word. So, I like the posters but I'm not crazy about the creative spellings!

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