Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council
Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council
Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council
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2. Interpersonal skills, especially getting along with others and team spirit<br />
3. Mobilising and organising people<br />
The volunteers’ role in conflict management<br />
Please note that you are a volunteer for health even though you are a community member.<br />
You have a specific role of maintaining the peace and being the peace maker so that the aim<br />
of having healthy communities is achieved. The WHO definition for health states that:<br />
“<strong>Health</strong> is a state of complete physical, social, mental and spiritual well being not merely the<br />
absence of disease or infirmity.”<br />
I will also add even ‘economic and political’ well being to this definition. So you need to help<br />
people maintain the balance in all these factors to remain healthy. Happy and healthy people<br />
do not have time for conflicts; because they are at peace. How do you help people stay<br />
happy and healthy?<br />
Help people to be holistically healthy<br />
This means that you are not only there to see to the eradication of diseases, but to make sure<br />
that your communities are peaceful. This means that part of your volunteer work is helping<br />
people to be healthy by getting along with each other communities.<br />
When they are gainfully engaged or employed with personal and community focus, they are<br />
less likely to get into each other’s way and poke their nose into what is not their business.<br />
With money and work in people’s hands often come beautiful ideas.<br />
Let your reputation go before you<br />
Volunteerism requires discipline, integrity, good judgment and neutrality. This means that<br />
if you are involved in a conflict or called upon to arbitrate in one, your reputation should go<br />
ahead of you even before you start to apply an intervention.<br />
Box 1.5.6: Personal benefits in resolving conflicts<br />
1.<br />
2.<br />
3.<br />
4.<br />
5.<br />
6.<br />
7.<br />
8.<br />
I am at peace with myself<br />
I am healed socially and mentally<br />
I am at peace within the team<br />
I get on with other people in the team<br />
I willingly give off my best skill and ability<br />
Letting go makes me stronger<br />
I bring change in health<br />
I gain respect with others.<br />
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