The Trends in International Volunteering

This week we invited the CEO of the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IVAE/國際志工協會) to make a speech for IVA. The topic is “The Trends in International Volunteering”. He said the trends in international volunteering are three trends. First is the GCVC(企業志工),which is that companies encouraging their staffs to be a volunteer. Second is the international volunteer. The last is the older volunteer(年長者志工). In Taiwan, there are still little GCVC. I hope more companies can join GCVC because a company has more power than a person. And I think to a security, volunteers are the more the better.      

A global housekeeper chain

I saw a documentary which is talking about Philippines women’s globalization. After I saw it, I was surprised by many information provide from it. First, Philippine women who work as a housekeeper in other countries has become a globalized phenomenon, and the salaries they send back to country is the biggest foreign exchange source in Philippine. Second, all women work in other countries are called the hero of country and Philippine president will go to airport to welcome them when they come back to Philippine. Third, most women work as housekeeper in foreign countries hire a local housekeeper to take care of their children!!! That means in the women who lived in advanced country hire Philippine women, and those Philippine women hire other Philippine women. It has become a global housekeeper chain.

   I can barely believe that a women can be hired and hire other women in the same time. I think I’m very lucky that I born in Taiwan, and could be the one who has the ability to hire someone do housework for me without hired by other women. On the other hand, women in the middle of the housekeeper chain must have complex feeling while doing her job.

You can see the documentary at this link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6858131449488859479