Umm Al-Qura University

Umm Al-Qura University

The Work of the Volunteering and Community Service Unit


- 2021/03/05

General Tasks of the Community Service Unit:

  • Highlighting the college’s role in community work.
  • Organizing participation in international and national events.
  • Engaging college staff to participate in community service activities.
  • Providing logistical, administrative and human resources support.
  • Developing services provided to the community.
  • Establishing cooperative partnerships with various governmental and private sectors that provide community services.
  • Documenting and preparing reports on community service activities, and submitting them to the College Vice Deanship of Development.

Organizational Structure:

Societal responsibility and community service:

Societal responsibility is one of the pillars of modern civil society and among the important cornerstones of advancement and progress. Societal responsibility stems from the individual's sense of his value in society, and in his effective role and importance in advancing his society. This is achieved through developing and improving its social, health, cultural and environmental sectors by contributing to the sustainable national development of these sectors and the efforts made therein.

Volunteer work initiatives and programs:

Volunteer work: Charitable deeds that a person does towards others that stem from a humanitarian and religious standpoint, reflecting the goodness that lies within the human being. A volunteer dedicates some of his time to provide aid and assistance in order to work to achieve a public or private benefit for the community and its members. It is a healthy and positive social phenomenon and a civilized behavior that reflects the awareness of community members and the spread of virtuous morals among them, thus contributing to maintaining the stability and development of society.

Blog of the Volunteering and Community Service Unit:

The blog is an electronic diary in which professionals in health care, volunteer work and community service present topics that are useful to society.

Podcast of Volunteering and Community Services:

It is an audio program which is produced by the Volunteering and Community Service Unit to raise multiple issues in health care, volunteering, charitable deeds, and all aspects of life. It is recorded and published on the internet in a series of episodes, so that listeners can participate and listen to it.

Documentation and report writing:

Registering volunteer work, recording their data, monitoring and counting volunteer work and efforts in the college, and submitting reports thereon to the College Administration and the Volunteer Work Administration at the university.

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