Volunteerism of Uzhhorod National University is an association of students, graduate students, teachers, staff and graduates of Uzhhorod National University. It was created at the Resource Center for Sustainable Development.

The founding meeting of the Volunteer took place on the International Volunteer Day - December 5, 2018. According to the preliminary registration, 86 volunteers volunteered to join the Volunteer Work. As of the end of the 2018-2019 school year, our team already has more than 100 volunteers.

The main goals of the Association:

VOLUNTEERING at Uzhhorod National University is a real human contribution to solving a social problem and creating a better world. That is why we unite in a team of many thousands to change our lives in the university, community, region, country and the world for the better. These are ambitious plans that we implement in small steps in various spheres of life - helping, developing and learning. It is a voluntary choice that reflects personal views and positions; it is active participation in the life of society, which is expressed, as a rule, in social activities.

Uzhhorod Volunteers are people who do something of their own free will, with consent, not under duress. These are voluntary initiatives of students, teachers, graduates and staff, which extend to almost any field of human activity.

For students, participation in volunteering has its advantages, namely:

 - pre-professional training, professional self-determination and formation;

 - mastering the knowledge and practical skills of social work with children and youth;

 - experience of individual and group work with peers and adults;

 - new friends, interesting leisure, meaningful employment, the opportunity to help others;

 - development of leadership qualities, creative abilities, self-expression and becoming a young person as a person, as an active member of society;

 - the opportunity to participate in decision-making processes that affect young people.

The main activities of volunteers:

  1. Social rehabilitation work, prevention and overcoming of negative phenomena in the youth environment.

  2. Guardianship of socially vulnerable groups.

  3. Social development of youth and its integration into society.

Basic principles of volunteers:

• the right to association for all men, women, children, regardless of their race, religion, physical characteristics, social and financial status;

• respect for the dignity and culture of all people;

• mutual assistance, free services in person or organized in the spirit of partnership and brotherhood;

• recognition of the equal importance of personal and collective needs, promoting the collective provision of these needs;

• transformation of volunteering into an element of personal prosperity, acquisition of new knowledge and skills, improvement of abilities, mobilization for this initiative and creativity of people, giving everyone the opportunity to be a creator, not a user;

• stimulating a sense of responsibility;

• encouraging family, collective and international solidarity.

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Our Partners

For a short time of activity we have developed well-established communication and partnership with the following institutions and organizations:

Uzhhorod City Council

Uzhhorod City Center for Social Services for Families, Children and Youth

Uzhhorod City Department of Education

"Red Cross" in the city of Uzhgorod

NGO "Barbos"

NGO "Movement for Support of Transcarpathian Military"

MSRC "Road of Life"

NGO "Active Community"

NGO "Plast"

NGO "Kolping's Case in Ukraine" (University of the Third Age)

"Probation Center" in the Transcarpathian region

PADIYUN

Transcarpathian Youth Council

Charitable Foundation "Everything is possible"

 Resource and Information Center ‘’Window to America’’

Transcarpathian Regional Center for Social and Labor Rehabilitation and Vocational Guidance "CHOICE"

Society of Disabled Workers and Childhood "Optimist"

Coordinators of work

The work of the Volunteer is supervised by the coordinator of the Resource Center for Sustainable Development - Candidate of Political Science. Sciences, Associate Professor of International Studies and Public Communications Anna Igorevna Meleganych.

At most faculties and departments of the university there are responsible persons:

Current information

Most often, our volunteers visit boarding schools (for children and the elderly) in the region, help organize various events, marathons, races, educational and entertainment events, conferences, debates. Participate in exercises, trainings and seminars for personal development. They teach and help to learn about the world and grow comprehensively for many categories of people in need in the city of Uzhhorod and Zakarpattia region.

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Activities conducted by the Volunteer:

Volunteers of Uzhhorod National University sang carols for the elderly

Volunteers of Uzhhorod National University visited pupils of two institutions in one week!

Volunteers of Uzhhorod National University attend boarding schools in Transcarpathia