Robert Muller: [GMW #2195] World Volunteer Program - Paying Youth & Unemployed

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

[GMW #2195] World Volunteer Program - Paying Youth & Unemployed - Creating Worldwide Friendship

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1482 ~ 1 August 1998

I think more and more that with the problem of unemployment, especially of young people, the question of volunteer services inside and between nations should be taken much more seriously, not as a side issue but as a central one.

Why not indeed have vast numbers of young people in social, health, environmental and other services employed and paid by governments as volunteer servants?

The funding could come from reduced military and armaments expenditures. I suggest that a world conference on volunteer services be held by the United Nations or the International Labor Organization to study the vast potential of that subject and how it could be best organized.

I could well see volunteer services promoted world-wide under a new United Nations Volunteer Agency. Foreign volunteer aid could perhaps become as substantial as foreign financial aid.

Years ago I obtained the creation of a UN World Food Program to prevent that surplus food crops be burned in the rich countries and be sent instead to hungry people and refugees in the poor world. It became the biggest international aid program.

I would like to see something similar created for unemployed, young people, a World Volunteer Program which would also create more international friendships and solidarity.

Why not? There should be at least as less unemployment and wasted human talent as there are now no longer any wasted, burned surplus food crops. The latter have completely disappeared from this planet.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living
Some of the greatest turning points in my life were when I had nothing to read, nothing to do, nothing to watch, either in a prison, or in an empty train compartment, or in a dark bus during the night.

My love for life and some of my books were born from such moments.

UN News Sources - UN Chronicle, United Nations News Service , UN Wire News Archive
References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

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