ORGANIZATION OF VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES IN THE CONDITIONS OF A RURAL COMMUNITY

Abstract

The article reveals the concepts of «volunteer» and «volunteer activity». The purpose of the study is to reveal the organization of volunteer activity in the conditions of a rural community. The most important features of volunteering are highlighted, namely: care for people; solidarity and humane selfinterest; spiritual quality and civic virtue; a rich source of human experience; new intellectual resources; participation and responsibility as the essence of an active civic position; an ethical standard that determines the quality of human relationships; providing a reliable platform for restoring connections between people; a new vision of social activity. It is analyzed that various technologies can be used to activate the community: training as a technology for organizing volunteer activity in a rural community, «peer-to-peer» and «Volunteer School». The main areas of socio-pedagogical work in the community with children and youth are highlighted: prevention and overcoming negative phenomena in the youth environment; social care and protection of the least protected categories of children and youth; social support of youth, assistance in their integration into society. Volunteering in rural areas is revealed as voluntary, free assistance of private individuals or public organizations, which is aimed at solving social problems of the rural community, by activating the villagers and involving them in volunteer activities. It is studied that in solving problems of rural areas, a volunteer group will not be able to act effectively without the support of other subjects of social work, namely without local government bodies and various social institutions of the territorial community. These elements cannot effectively carry out their work separately from each other, because they do not always have enough resource potential to solve problems, meet certain needs of social groups of the local community.