Volunteering — a bridge to a stronger community, and helping your local needy. Finding the freedom for this kind of event can be tricky in its own right, and arranging specific activities can easily take up free time that could be used in actually volunteering.

This is a call for companies to follow the lead of far-sighted firms like Connecticut’s Adaptive Marketing LLC. As well as shopping programs like Todays Escapes (MVQ*TRAVELMEMBER) intended to benefit consumers, Adaptive Marketing handles the organizational necessities to give its employees the time to help the local community.

If you were asked for examples of company-backed volunteer work, you’d most likely talk in terms of blood drives, maybe an annual donation drive, but this is simply not the case in the modern day. Running shoe recycling initiatives and more energetic campaigns like tree replanting events — these are just some of the activities that have been arranged for its workforce by Adaptive Marketing. In these cases, the times, locations and dates that had been arranged were posted, ensuring that staff knew what to expect, and how much time it might take exactly. It’s important to let volunteers select projects according to their own preferences. At Adaptive Marketing, the firm behind Todays Escapes (MVQ*TRAVELMEMBER), members of staff can pick and choose from a diverse list of volunteer programs. These may include promoting green initiatives etc. Adaptive Marketing’s staff members will be certain to find a project they’ll enjoy participating in, making their time enjoyable as well as fulfilling. Most often a company-sponsored charity program — getting involved with a local school or assisting at a homeless shelter — is either done on a regular schedule or as a one-off event. Members of staff may well say that they don’t have the free time, but even they can often free up the resources to help at some smaller one-day event.

It’s hardly an unusual practice for businesses to help to support the people living around their premises. A sense of community goodwill is generated by the volunteer work done by Adaptive Marketing’s staff through company sponsored programs like the ones outlined in this article. Helping others makes you feel like a better person — just the sort of thing to leave employees motivated in both their daily work and their volunteer activities, too.

The sense of brotherhood that develops among volunteers can unite their community, and as you’d expect it will help their local poor. However, organizing this kind of event is often pretty tricky, and arranging what you want to do can easily eat up free time that could be used to actually work.

Consequently, firms have begun making themselves into points of organization helping their employees to work for the community. One of the leaders in this is Adaptive Marketing LLC who also offer shopping programs such as Shopping Essentials Plus to consumers. If you think about company sponsored charitable effort, you probably think of blood drives, maybe an annual donation drive, nothing more, but that’s simply not the case in the modern day. Looking at a specific company, Adaptive Marketing has provided its employees with the chance to participate in everything from athletic shoe recycling efforts to tree planting days. For these events, the times, locations and dates of the events were posted, making sure that employees knew what to expect, and how much time it might take precisely. It’s important to let volunteers find projects in line with their own interests. At Adaptive Marketing, the company bringing you Shopping Essentials Plus, the workforce are given the chance to choose from a wide variety of volunteer events in their local area. Previous and current projects have seen improvements made in areas as diverse as aid and assistance for children and young adults, green awareness activities, and events supporting artists. Adaptive Marketing’s employees are sure to have something they enjoy, making their time enjoyable as well as fulfilling. When businesses encourage their staffers take an active role at homeless shelters or local schools, it tends to be during a single event or a regularly scheduled task. Even staff who say they don’t have the time to volunteer can squeeze in a Saturday morning spent litter picking in the park or the public library’s sale of used books.

We’re sure that by now you’ve heard a number of tales of firms finding ways to help the people who live around them. The good worksefforts of the employees at Adaptive Marketing spread precious goodwill in their hometown. One thing volunteer work is sure to do is provide your staff with a positive feeling about themselves, creating a motivated business. By now, we think, the positives for everyone involved of a company-sponsored volunteer program are are plain to understand for everyone.

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It is undeniable that Cambodia is changing. When I arrived in
Cambodia in 1995, one in three Cambodians I met carried a
weapon. Arms were for many the only way to ensure security. Yet,
in the decennium I live in Cambodia, I have never seen one used
against me or anybody, except for one: a policeman shot some
game in the forest but didn’t catch it.

I’ve collected weapons. 5 years ago, I travelled to Dey Krohom
village in Kratie province along roads which the year after were
de-mined because the road was part of what once was the National
road from Phnom Penh to Kratie and Stoeung Treng and is was
going to be rebuilt into what Cambodians cal a “speedway”. I’ve
seen the mines when a year later, I travelled the same road
again to inspect my development projects.

Each one might have killed me. Do you know that mines tend to
float under the soil and move where no-one expects any mines.

>From 2000 to 2004, I worked for the EU ASAC, an EU weapons
management programme for establishing weapons security to the
country. My job was to help collect weapons from the civilian
population which was only a small part of a much more
encompassing programme. My job also included implementing police
support regarding to security as a complement to the weapons
collection.

The programme was implemented on the request and with the full
support of the Cambodian government. Next week, the government
will destroy some 8,000 weapons and thus bring the total of
destroyed weapons since the start of the EU peace plan to more
than 175,000 weapons.

These weapons include not only weapons from the civilian
population, but also military surpluses. Some argue that it is
the oldest weapons that were destroyed, but all of the weapons
in the destruction were usable. Being usable - if only for spare
parts -, they could be sold on the black market and used in
other conflicts in the region.

By destroying those weapons, the Cambodian people acts as true
Buddhists, choosing for Peace in the Region. “Put down your
weapon, take up the Dharma” edified the Buddhist Teachers. And
that is what Cambodians are doing.

The EU has been the initiator of the multi-facetted peace
programme. Two Japanese organisations are fulfilling the
promises of European initiators: if you make peace development
will come. Cambodian people have turned their weapons. JSAC and
JCCP, two Japanese organisation now offer development projects
to the villages, communes and districts that have surrendered
all their weapons and are proven weapons-free. Clean water wells
are in some places the highest priorities, elsewhere schools or
school toilets were built.

The principle of the weapons collection project was not to pay
for the weapons, but to offer community-owned projects instead.
Every weapon that was collected from the civilian population had
to be destroyed and was.

The military surplus weapons are those that are left over from
the EU ASAC Weapons Registration and Safe Storage project. Here
safe storage buildings for weapons and computerised registration
system have been provided to the Cambodian Army and Gendarmerie.

The weapons are destroyed in public ceremonies in the presence
of the population. These ceremonies are called “Flames of
Peace.” EU, Cambodian or Japanese experts count the weapons as
part of the process and check that no more ammunition remains in
the weapon that could turn the celebration into a tragedy.

The EU assistance programme has also supported the National
Committee for weapons management, the draft of a new arms law
and oversees the implementation of that law.

Next week, two of those bonfires take place in Cambodia. On
Monday 26 September, 3,430 weapons will be burned ceremoniously
in Siem Reap province with Japanese support and on Tuesday about
4,500 in Sihanoukville with European support.

The Japanese destruction ceremony will take place in Angkor Chum
district, there where the people have turned them in. The
ceremony in Sihanoukville will take place on Ochheuteal Beach
and is open to any visitor. If you happen to be in
Sihanoukville, this is a unique occasion to witness the
Cambodian contribution to peace building.