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Voluntary service: a pastime or a profession

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Walter Ricardo Cotte W.
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Today, as in a dream, I look back on my life as a volunteer, on what I have learned and what it has taught me about the world. At once I am reminded of what the Red Cross meant to me as a child and young person, and what it now means to me as an adult, after twenty years' personal and professional experience. My experience as a volunteer has led me to a post in which I am both a professional and an individual working as a volunteer (National First-aid Director of the Colombian Red Cross Society). The following thoughts arise from that experience.

Type
The Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 30 , Issue 275 , April 1990 , pp. 95 - 100
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1990

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