rights and duties

The regulating law of Volunteering, that the FPW follows, contains a set of rights and duties that are important to know before starting the collaboration as a volunteer, with a few details specific to our organization.

These are the rights of a volunteer:

• To receive the orientation, support and information about FPW and the training in gender, needed to perform their activities.
• To be treated without discrimination, respecting their freedom, dignity, intimacy and beliefs.
• To participate actively in the Federation, in accordance to their statutes, collaborating with the planning, design, execution and evaluation of the programs and actions in which they collaborate.
• Be insured against the risks that can be derived from the performance of their voluntary activity.
• Have an identifying accreditation of their volunteer status
• Perform their activities in safety and hygienic conditions.
• Be reimbursed for the expenses that their work as volunteers could cause.
• Have access to material and technical means as well as human resources necessary for the development of their activity.
• Receive certifications for their participation as volunteers, which could in their case, be acknowledged for their social value, and be used to add value to their curriculum
• Stop freely in their conditions as volunteers
• Obtain a change in the assigned program when causes exist that justify it, always within the company possibilities.
• Not to be assigned to do work unrelated to the company aims and never to do the tasks assigned to paid staff.

Volunteers duties

• To abide to their commitments with the Federation, respecting its statutes and especially defending equal rights and opportunities for every woman.
• To maintain the confidentiality with respect to the information gathered and acknowledged during the process of volunteering
• To refuse any kind of payment that could be offered by users, benefactors or other people as a way of thanking them for their action.
• To act in a responsible, soldiery and diligent way during the making of the tasks assigned and following the instructions given.
• To respect the beliefs and rights of the users
• To take part in the training sessions imparted by the organizations, from generic to specific and also the ones related to gender.
• To take good care and make good use of the material resources provided by FPW for the activities, as well using correctly the organisation’s accreditations and identifications, which are given to them.