Volunteering service, civil participation for welfare, is the essential factor to be a welfare society. Also, welfare community is matured by citizens voluntary participation for the service. The practical using of human power is the important element...
Volunteering service, civil participation for welfare, is the essential factor to be a welfare society. Also, welfare community is matured by citizens voluntary participation for the service. The practical using of human power is the important element to satisfy various and increasing desires for the welfare and according to that tendency citizens voluntary participation for the welfare business is the requisite for realizing the welfare society.
In recent years, volunteering service activity is spread to the whole people in Korea and many of them are acting for the handicapped. But that is not enough. There are many problems like the continuance of activity and guarantee for specialty corresponds with each handicapped persons trait and his or her demand, especially for the blind people. Even though they have no other handicap except on the blindness, blindness itself is a relatively big handicap for them. Therefore, they need volunteers expert help continuously. This research contributes to settle down the volunteering service culture and its activation for the blind people by studying documents about existing volunteering activitys reality and drawing up the plans of activation with understanding the problems.
According to the results of this research, the main problems are the lack of continuous activity and specialty, and the absence of diversification. The lack of the continuous activity result from the lack of volunteers specialty, and the lack of true motivation that starts from a correct understanding of the blind people. Some volunteers have an incorrect recognition because they think the handicapped persons physical defect is also including their mental defect. But that is not true and its a kind of prejudice. This research shows that there must be a limit of the access if the volunteering service activity starts from the misunderstanding like above. Consequently, here are some suggestions based on the result of this research.
First of all, there must be the educational information program that can promote the understanding of the blind people for finding out and training the volunteers.
Second, provide the support system and various activity programs under the mutual cooperation between the government and the citizen.
Third, consider to offer the incentives to the volunteers to control them effectively.
Fourth, support for the volunteers institutionally with the policy.
Fifth, encourage the small group meetings to raise the specialty through maintaining the service activity with self-control.
Sixth, it is necessary to use the volunteering service information center as a function of collecting and arraigning the volunteers to find out and ensure them.
Accordingly, let people know that the volunteering service for the blind people is a natural support and restore their precious ability to increase our social welfare.