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The Transforming Volunteerism Parceiros oluntarios Messageof the Deliberative Board President 4 Messageof the Executive President 5 0 Vision, Missionand Beliefs and Values 6 Profi~ 7 ✓, ize List of AwardedCases 8 Individual Volunteers Category 9 Corporate Volunteers Category 10 Volunteers in School Category 11 CivilSociety Organizations Category 11 o~unteenc;m '"' the cotlecti~e pr :.sion of being human 'Stop and Think' International Seminar 12 fnbes he T or utizensmp Tribes in Numbers 14 List of Acknowledgmentsand Honor's Awards 15 o o J e r me net ParceirosVo/unt6rios Network 16 d r F .so al m CivilSociety Organizations Program 18 The tr ronn g ct o o unteerism Individual Volunteers Program 20 G oo l Zdtio o ca ~ e Corporate Volunteers Program 22 Sc'1ool ol , Volunteers in School Program 24 U w 1"51r;y. e st:ns tor /oli.mteerism Volunteers in University Program 26 .\ GO n l e right track Management 28 Social mobH1zationand communication 29 D om s n ,., DeliberativeBoard 30 Founders/Patrons/Supporting Organizations/ Partnerships 31 Voluntary Audit PricewaterhouseCoopersIndependent Auditorsanalyzed the financial demonstrations of the Non-GovernmentalOrganization (NGO) Parceiros Voluntarios in reference to the fiscal year with the objective of assuring the transparencyof the Organizationin the use of its resources.The audit consideredthat the above-mentioneddemonstrations had presented, adequately, in all the aspects, the patrimonial and financial position of the NGO.It is importantto emphasizethat the audit workmade by PricewaterhouseCooperswas voluntary. the volunteer's web hile talking, Mrs. Tatiana Stringhini, plastic artist, 84 year­ old volunteer, shyly shows a notebook in which she writes histories of life collected from the friendships made in Padre CaciqueAsylum. Between one sentence and another, she demonstrates deep love in her noble ability of listening to others. The very same love is what inspires the dentist-surgeon Susana Rossi to craft small instruments to give more comfort to the dental treatment of disabled children, teenagers and adults from Educand6rioSlio Jolio Batista and CasaMenino Jesus de Praga. There, in the latter, Mrs. Carla de Castilho hosts the people who desire to offer their generosity. Certainly, this generosity contaminated MariaStringhini, Mrs. Tatiana Stringhini's daughter, who took the violin that she had not played for 30 years off the box, finding a meaning for life that she deemed forgotten. Today,she is "Maria of the Violin", who, when magically playing the instrument, brings serenity and joy to many hearts. And it is also with joy and serenity that Anita Brasil and MercedesCastelucio accompany the elderly in clinics and hospitals, protecting them affectionately, considering them like members of their own families. Wagnerde Jesus dos Santos does the same when he shares his knowledge on administration in Abrigo Jolio Paulo II. Maria Francisca Mendoni;a,alias 'Kika', is the angel "without wings" for the children in Instituto do CancerJnfantil when she, with other volunteers, seeks fundings for that institution. Meanwhilein Slio Jolio do Polesinein the city of Santa Mariaartisan Marlenelop takes three buses to present workshops on craftwork for needy families of the community. Likewise,in the city of GaribaldiJuliano de Paoli designs in his computer new cross-stitch charts and installs the matrices in the embroidering machines of the Clubedas Moesdo Apae, assisting many families of his region in increasing their income. These and thousand of other stories such as Liane Klein's, Jorge Bandeira's (nickname "Joca"}, Mauani Da Silva's, MarleneOrlandini's and Udo dos Santos' are testimonies of the six-year trajectory of Rio Grande do Sul organized voluntary work. Through these volunteers' stories Parceiros Vo/untariospays homage to everyone who believes in the voluntary action as a culture that generates social capital, with its interpersonal relationships of trust and its cooperation networks, the main means to promote the human being growth in its essence and to achieve development through peace. -.... Demonstration social s ParceirosVoluntarios completes distribution; our country will only be considered six years of existence we still have developed if the people's capacities and the the same opinion that we had local communities' are developed. when it was founded: poverty and the social exclusion should not be fought only with the Mistaken diagnoses of the social reality are not economic growth or with compensatory or valid contributions. What is required is to work demagogic policies, but with innovative hard and face the inequality directly, like the investment programs in human and social capital volunteers do. built in partnership with the community. ParceirosVoluntdrios is victorious and serves as It is based on this idea that Parceiros an example because it is based not only on the· Voluntdrios, a model organization, has been love for the next, but above all on the organized standing out in Rio Grande do Sul and in Brazil; work, disciplined, made in accordance with the our work has been generating such good results most modern administration techniques. that we are sharing our experience and knowledge abroad. Currentlywe reach with our If we want to change the reality we must make a work 60% of the Rio Grande do Sul population deep modificationin the population's cultural through our network, we have more than on standards. If we do not help the people to change, 30.000 volunteers registered, we keep a solid we will not be able to change the society. alliance with Universities and Schools, in order to spread the ideal of volunteerism among the The man is the base of all the processes. youngsters as a means to build a better Rio Grande do Sul and Brazil. Organizedvoluntary work is a safe way, accessible and of great reach to stimulate Brazil's The Governmentalone is incapable of solving the development. problems of our world; on the other hand, it is exceedingly large to solve the problems of each Humberto Ruga community. Developmentis always social; Deliberative Board President poverty should not be faced only with income 4 of____ _ capital he year of 2003 was a year of www.tribosparceiros.org.br),gave the youngsters remarkableaction, action that will be what they have been requesting in every Meetingwe the base upon which we will develop have: "Wewant to roll our sleeves and get to work". our activities in the next years not only in respect In this report, we demonstrate the significant result to the strengthening of ParceirosVolunt6rios of this action. We also demonstrate that young NETWORK(61 cities in the state) through its four volunteers are not the leaders of tomorrow,nor the Programs,but also to the improvementof the hope of the future - they are today's leaders and organization management, by introducing the BSC the future is now. The young volunteers showed us (BalancedScorecard) tool in our Strategic Planning. that they could defy old ways of thinking, feeling and acting. They are full of ideas and can bring a We decided to present in this 2003 Annual Report, significant contribution. For this reason and which we deliver to the communitywith great because of the great relevanceof this issue to satisfaction, not only the philosophicalconcepts of research purposes in the educational field, we volunteerism,but also the depositions and the decided to edit a book, as a means to publicly examplesof the people who are practicing them, recognize their attitude and also to influence and who tell us the importance of the voluntary action to extend our youngsters' NE1WORK. in their lives and in the life of the others. There are thousands of people participating in the The action TRIBESIN THETRACKS, based on communitytransformation, and this is the normal "Educationfor Values",tells us that education must attitude of a responsibleindividual. The normal be a priority for our children, but without values attitude of a conscientious citizen is an ethical and ethics it loses its meaning. A world without attitude. They are people who are conscious that values and ethics is unthinkable.We must make a their growth as human beings will only occur with commitmentto developmentand to PEACE,since the growth of the others who are around. developmentis also called PEACE.Development and peace will only happen if we are really engaged with This Report strengthens the idea that the active them. The Social Capitalincorporated in norms and presence of the civil society in the discussion of nets of civic commitmentseems to be a prerequisite social priorities is urgently necessary.The critic for the economic developmentand also for an volunteerism,moved by solidarity, has a pioneering efficient government. The communities have not role in the construction of a society committed to become civic for being rich. Historyshows the the well being of its membersand with the effective opposite: they have enriched for being civic. participation of the citizenship in the decisions regarding the collective interest. We are thankful to all that believe in this and recognizetheir role as constructorsof a new reality. It is imperative that the Governmentrecognize and With fervor, I want to thank GOD,who leads us value the basic organization of the civil society, through paths that we know where they start, but which does not mean, however,alignment to the often we do not knowto where they are taking us. ideals of one or more political parties; it is also We trust, however,that these paths will lead us to necessary that the Non-GovernmentalOrganizations growth and, consequently, to the construction and develop their capacity of establishing partnerships the developmentof a better country. Today,we are among different sectors. who we are. Tomorrow,certainly, others will continue the construction of this path. The Action TRIBESIN THETRACKS OF CITIZENSHIP, carried out in 2003 (see the web site Maria Elena Pereira Johannpeter ExecutivePresident Emotions nite people by means of solidarity and trust, joining them with the common dream of developing the organized voluntary work culture.
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