During this week the UNED Dénia is celebrating the course Youth as the value of a changing world and during the day on Wednesday, a space devoted to talk about youth volunteering.
Along these lines, the course participants extolled the figure of the volunteer and encouraged young people to get more involved even though, according to the course organizers, "during the years of crisis we are experiencing, the number of volunteers has increased significantly, probably due to lack of work outs. "
Jaime Higueras, professor of Secondary Education and visible face of the association Condemned to curb, Put in value the role done by volunteers: "From my position as a teacher in high school, it was easy to motivate students so that, on the one hand, they could develop different social skills, and secondly, the association counted with volunteers. It is essential to have a good number of volunteers and although the average time devoted to a young volunteer does not normally exceed 2 years, the association still have young people working with us since 7 years ago. "
The Provincial Secretary of the Red Cross Dénia, Raquel Martín, states that much is given, "but much is also received." In fact, education in values and coexistence allows them to strengthen personal development and, as the President of the Red Cross pointed out Alicante, Alejandro Marcos Serrano: “in volunteer actions they get what they need to learn and thus complete an academic training they have already completed.
Red Cross Youth has about 600 volunteers across the province whose age ranges between 16 and 30 years and serving more than 20.000 users, in addition to running various awareness campaigns, talks at schools or, as is the case of Dénia, offer a toy library for users between 6 and 14 years.
