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Responsible Volunteering Policy | SLV.Global Psychology Placements SLV.GLOBAL HomeWell-nighPlacements Blog Contact JobsWieldNowWhenSri Lanka Bali India Fees HomeAbout Placements Sri Lanka Bali India Fees BlogContactJobs SLV.GLOBALWieldNow Responsible Volunteering Policy SLV.Global’s Responsible Volunteering Policy has been created to aid SLV.Global in our efforts to volunteer responsibly in the South of Sri Lanka and in Bali, Indonesia. It has been devised by the SLV.Global team in collaboration with the National Youth Services Council, the management of the projects we work with and the Colombo Districts Child Protection Officer.From summer 2016 we began running our Mental Health Placements in Bali, Indonesia and we have unfurled to work to our existing structure, which has been ripened remoter by the SLV.Bali team and the management of our projects in Bali.VolunteeringUpalongAll projects have been chosen by the SLV.Global team based on their need for international volunteers. We work with both non-government and government institutions in an effort to perpetuate the pre-existing resources and provide remoter support. SLV.Global seeks translating from polity members to ensure that, as an organisation, we do not negatively stupefy the employment structure of the polity that we work in. When SLV.Global work at schools it is to squire teachers in the classroom and not be the primary teacher.SLV.Global wishes to inspire with our deportment but resist from imposing our ideals on others. Volunteers are instructed never to criticise staff at projects and to remember that many of the staff in projects work very long hours, are not well paid and will often not have had towardly training. Volunteers should be patient with the staff at all projects and work nonflexible to build up their trust and work with the local professionals to mart ideas and strategies. Volunteers are reminded to treat everyone they meet with their utmost humility and respect.Both Sri Lanka and Indonesia are modest countries particularly in increasingly rural areas. All volunteers are required to dress smartly whilst working at the projects, expressly whilst teaching and at the psychiatric facility. In keeping with the local culture, everyone should be wearing suit that covers the tops of the stovepipe and the ankles at all times in the community.Suitmust be loose fitting and any tattoos or piercings covered from view. Failure to do so is considered disrespectful and can vamp unwanted sustentation as well as distracting from the worriedness sessions.SLV.Global has a zero-tolerance drugs policy i.e. towards the use or/and possession of any illegal drugs. The laws relating to drug treason and worriedness in both Sri Lanka and Indonesia are moreover very strict. It is moreover illegal to smoke in public and on the streets in both Sri Lanka and Bali. Volunteers are given translating on where it is possible to smoke and provided with designated areas within the homestays.Volunteer Selection ProcessAll volunteers must wield to join our team and must successfully well-constructed an interview over the phone with one of our team, all of who have been on placement with us surpassing and are previous or current psychology students.About 40% of all applicants are awarded a place on their preferred team upon successful completion of the initial interview. If an write-in does not meet the minimum education and wits criteria we will refuse the write-in until they are worldly-wise to meet the minimum requirements. We request all volunteers have single-minded to their own polity and require a minimum of three months of wits working with vulnerable adults for our Mental Health Placements.We require all volunteers be in possession of a recent DBS trammels to participate in one of our placements abroad.Working with Children and Vulnerable AdultsIn wing to the Sri Lankan and Indonesian Child Protection Guidelines, SLV.Global has put together rules to ensure that our volunteers never rationalization distress to any payee that we work with:Volunteers are limited in the value of time that they spend with one person to ensure that an emotional yoke is not formed, as all volunteers will sooner leave, potentially causing unfair distress expressly to the children. Therefore volunteers only visit one project a maximum of twice per week, for a maximum of 2 hours at a time.Volunteers are forbidden to be vacated with a child or vulnerable adult.Volunteers are trained how to manage a matriculation without strict discipline.Volunteers are educated in towardly touching and how to discourage children from engaging with them in an overly tactile mannerVolunteers are instructed in how to deal with a situation if they suspect that someone’s human rights are stuff violated.Volunteers are instructed to not yank sustentation to their leaving date. Volunteers understand that although they may be leaving the country and the projects other volunteers will take their place and protract the work into the future.Gifts are prohibited. We are seen in the countries where we work as practitioners not benefactors.ContinuityFrom an upstanding standpoint, it is important to SLV.Global that we provide sustainable resources, and support, to projects in both Bali and Sri Lanka. Whilst volunteers will leave the country at the end of their placement, there is a unvarying stream of new volunteers arriving to protract the work of the previous volunteers.Volunteer Project Feedback is one of the cadre ways SLV.Global is worldly-wise to provide continuity in the sessions provided at all projects. Volunteers record their progress on shared documents (one for each project) permitting them to communicate to present and future volunteers the efficacy of their sessions, the groups skills and often offer translating and pass on important information.This feedback ensures that the beneficiaries receive a continuity of support and a variety of activities despite the transpiration in volunteer personnel.MarketingSLV.Global will not use stereotypical images that show the people that we work with as victims, to evoke pity to encourage people to volunteer.We will not use suggestive images to "sell" our placements but simply use photos of activities and projects that volunteers participate in.We will not use cliches and grand statements as it gives volunteers unrealistic expectations and sets them up to be disillusioned.Photos and videos at projects is strictly prohibited and volunteers are instructed to refrain from writing explicitly well-nigh any service users and to respect our confidentiality agreements and not name projects in any blogs or student papersSLV.Global is not a tour operator, therefore we will not market our volunteering placements as though they are holidays. The Mental Health Placements we offer provide an immersive wits into a new culture whilst gaining hands on wits within the mental health sector. These are work placements and they are difficult.Volunteers are expected to self-mastery themselves as professionals. Any inappropriate behaviour will be addressed immediately and disciplinary action, including potential expulsion from the placement, will be taken.AffordabilitySLV.Global limit the value of money spent on razzmatazz so as to alimony financing low for volunteers. SLV.Global receives approximately 65% of its volunteers through word of mouth and we rely on self-ruling marketing methods such as social networking and promotion from universities.For the elapsing of their placement, volunteers stay in homestays with local families, providing locally sourced food. Volunteers are encouraged to use local public transport when travelling to and from projects and to buy resources from local vendors.VisasWe procure Residence Visas for our team members, which are sponsored by the government. We think it’s of the utmost importance that our volunteers are in the country legally and that we are honest well-nigh the fact that, although unpaid, volunteers are working during their time with us, they aren’t tourists.ResourcesSLV.Global has learnt from wits that monetary donations directly to the projects’ management teams is not responsible and will not necessarily modernize the lives of the beneficiaries. We therefore donate items that are essential for the sustainability and positive effect of projects.For example, from 2010 -2012, SLV.Global donated white boards and sports equipment to some of the children’s minutiae centres where we worked. In 2013 we moreover built a roof on one of the special needs centres where our volunteers run sessions and activities. The facility lacked any suitable shaded areas for the volunteers to work safely with service users. These decisions are made by SLV.Global and management teams.Volunteers are discouraged from giving gifts and/or donations to the beneficiaries we work with. It is important to SLV.Global that children, and sultana service users, do not expect gifts or hand-outs from volunteers. SLV.Global believes that to put service users in a position where they see themselves as receivers of soft-heartedness can have a negative effect on their psychological well-being and self-esteem. It can moreover contribute to “voluntourism” where facilities exploit their clients as a way to proceeds materials and funds.Volunteers are encouraged to bring resources to help them in delivering their sessions. When they leave the project, volunteers can segregate to donate these resources to the SLV.Global resource box that will be misogynist for future volunteers to use, but never leave these materials at projects.SLV.Global moreover encourages volunteers to be resourceful with their teaching aids and to use things that are hands available. As well as stuff inexpensive, this will show the children and other service users how a game can be created with anything, and that perhaps they can recreate an worriedness themselves when volunteers are not there.PhotographyVolunteers are prohibited from taking photos at their projects or with service users. Our projects are workplaces, not tourist attractions and the service users we work with are unable to consent to their photo stuff taken, and potentially shared.At the weekends, and in the homestay zone and community, volunteers are not to photograph children, as children can not consent to their image potentially stuff shared. It is remoter explained to volunteers that it is not responsible to show off their wealth to others and an expensive camera or phone is a well-spoken way to show the economic discrepancy between some foreigners and some locals.Volunteer SafetyDuring orientation, volunteers are given guidelines to ensure they stay unscratched in Bali and Sri Lanka. For example, volunteers should unchangingly stay in pairs at least. Volunteers should pre-arrange their transport plans, expressly at night, and they should alimony their homestay write in Sinhalese or Indonesian with them at all times. The guidelines moreover include important day-to-day translating such as where it is unscratched to withdraw money from local ATM machines.Volunteers are encouraged to use public transport in pairs during the day throughout the undertow of their placement. In Bali there is very limited public transport so volunteers are moreover given the details of local taxis that the SLV.Global team know personally and who will offer our volunteers the local resident prices. Our volunteers in Sri Lanka are given a volunteer vellum with the official National Youth Services stamp. The when of the volunteer vellum explains that the individual is an unpaid volunteer teaching in Sri Lanka and that they would fathom a local or reasonable price.Volunteers are encouraged to drink boiled water, which makes it suitable for drinking instead of constantly ownership bottled water. Volunteers are worldly-wise to swash water themselves at their homestay and are encouraged to snifter it and put it in the fridge in preparation for the pursuit day. This is to limit how many plastic bottles they have to buy and it saves volunteers expense.Our ImpactWe rely on resulting feedback from our projects and partners to measure the impact of our work. The fact that we have grown exponentially due to demand for our services speaks volumes, but we moreover release an yearly report each year to explain the progress of our program.We moreover partner with a number of universities who see the value of our work and have well-set to count our placement as part of their students’ undertow content. Recruiting students who are experienced in the mental health sector helps us to make the weightier impact in the communities where we work.We have recently conducted a five-year retrospective report into the impact of our work, which can be found here.SLV.Global Mental Health FundIn 2017 we set up the soft-heartedness workshop of our organisation, the SLV.Global Mental Health Fund, which funds grassroots organisation in the countries where we work who are working nonflexible to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health issues and to increase the sector’s resources. These funds moreover help with relief efforts in times of natural disaster, as joint trauma resulting from these instances is often underestimated. 10 - 15% of all volunteer/participant’s fees goes directly to this initiative.Local staffWe are incredibly proud that 90% of our paid staff, in both Sri Lanka and Indonesia, are local residents. By investing in local staff we ensure that we are making as positive an impact as possible within the communities where we work by not only providing lucrative and long-term employment opportunities, but moreover ensuring that those who know the country and the culture weightier are in charge.     SLV.Global 122 Minories, London, England, EC3N 1NT, United Kingdom 02070961718 [email protected] Hours Mon 9am to 6pm Tue 9am to 6pm Wed 9am to 6pm Thu 9am to 6pm Fri 9am to 6pm Home  |  About  |  Placements  |  Psychology  |  Blog  |  FAQs | Reviews SLV.Global, 122,  Minories, London, EC3N 1NT+44 (0)20 7096 1718  |  [email protected] Ⓒ SLV Intl Ltd Company No. 08338869  ·  All rights reservedSLV.Global Mental Health Fund - RegisteredSoft-heartednessNumber 1175589.Privacy Policy  ·  Responsible Volunteering Policy