Opinion

Conscious, transformative and community-based volunteering.

Wales, one of the devolved nations of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland, was the first country in the world to legislate for children’s play.

Seventeen years ago—in April 2008—the last Labour government launched England’s first, and only, National Play Strategy. Today, we learn more about what Play England is doing to help. 

The ocean sustains life, yet faces daily threats from human activity. Sea Shepherd Global fights to protect marine wildlife through direct action. This call urges everyone to join the fight to help save our oceans before it’s too late.

A good example of this real and full participation that we defend is inclusive volunteering, a system in which the person with an intellectual disability participates as a volunteer accompanying people from other groups.

Our function is not to educate, but to achieve spaces of freedom and citizen agency to govern ourselves in a real way. For this we point out the systemic inequalities and show examples of community resilience.

When things go wrong and in emergency situations, volunteers are always there. But it is also there when he repairs the net every day, full of unstitched and more or less visible strips.

Citizen science is defined as an emerging trend in the ways of doing science. Efforts draw on citizens’ involvement in research tasks. This may range from identifying a problem that needs solving, defining research, data collection, data interpretation and transforming these interpretations into actions.