Transcript SPORTS FOR ALL AND VOLUNTEERISM DR. KANG

SPORTS FOR ALL AND
VOLUNTEERISM
DR. KANG-TOO LEE
PRESIDENT, KOREA NATIONAL
COUNCIL OF SPORT FOR ALL
• Ladies and gentlemen, I am Kang-Too Lee, President of
the National Council of ‘Sport for All’ in Korea. First, let
me just say that I am very pleased to see you all in this
beautiful City of Manila, and I would also like to thank
Sanghee Lee, President of ASFAA for his thoughtful
consideration for today’s presentation.
• The role of Volunteers in organizations is getting more
and more important in the Sport for All movement. When
it comes to making events, recreational programmes,
health and educational projects it has proven quite
difficult to carry out without the help of volunteers. On
their part, volunteers do not only obtain experience,
concrete skills, and develop their personality they also
• contribute to economic growth, social welfare, social
communication.
• Because of these positive effects, the need for
volunteers is increasing in various fields of society.
Especially in sport events, the role of volunteers is said
to be one of the crucial factors for a successful event.
We clearly know that they have played a very important
role in many sports events, such as the Olympics and
the World Cup by managing various affairs from start to
ending. They are major contributors.
• The volunteer sector, traditionally known as the third
sector of society, has rapidly grown since the 1970’s and
volunteers have been described as the social fabric of
our communities. Without them, many festivals, events,
recreation programs, local heritage attractions, and
community-based social, health and educational
endeavors would not be possible today.
• The purpose of this paper is to examine the importance
of volunteerism, especially volunteer leadership, on the
Sport for all Movement. When we think of volunteering,
we often think about the people at hand on site,
providing their time and services to see that an event is
implemented smoothly during the given time frame.
However, the leaders or people behind the scenes are
often overlooked or under appreciated.
• Sport and Volunteerism
• It is in the realm of sports that millions of people around
the world first experience volunteerism. Like sports,
volunteerism is essentially and profoundly optimistic. It is
about human potential, striving, achievement and
connection. It challenges one’s limits and tests our
resolve. Like so many sports, it requires people to
perform on someone else’s turf.
• Without a doubt, volunteerism is an important part of
sports and sport everywhere relies on volunteers,
whether community-based matches or international
events.
• It is through the efforts of volunteers that international
games not only operate, but also continue to exist.
• Benefits of Volunteering
• Volunteerism provides benefits to the individual, such as
self-fulfillment, skill acquisition, increased understanding
and social integration. It also benefits society as a whole,
through impacts including economic growth, social
welfare, community participation, generation of trust and
reciprocity, and the broadening of social interaction
through new networks.
• As with volunteers in general, most sport volunteers are
motivated to volunteer to support a cause in which they
believe, use their skills to help, because someone they
know is affected by the organization, and to explore their
own strengths. However, using one’s skills and because
someone they know is affected by the organization are
important motives to a greater proportion of sport
volunteers than volunteers in general.
• There are few variations by sex, but the older volunteers
(35 years and older) tend to be attracted to sport
volunteering to help cause, use their skills and because
someone close to them is personally affected, while
younger volunteers tend to be motivated by those same
things and to also to explore their own strengths,
improve their job opportunities and because their friends
volunteer.
• It was discovered that a model of motives for
volunteering in sport identifies with helping a cause as a
core motive, while primary motives are personal needs
and interests (such as fun, use skills, child involved) and
secondary motives are social interaction and personal
development.
• In terms of individual gains, a research conducted in
2000 found that volunteers have reported benefiting from
volunteering in the following ways:
– 79% felt the gained interpersonal skills, such as the ability to
understand people better, motivate people, and deal with difficult
situations;
– 68% reported learning better communication skills, such as
public speaking, writing, public relations, and running meetings;
– 63% said they increased their knowledge about social issues;
– 57% gained organizational skills;
– 42% learned fundraising skills;
– 33% learned office skills, such as word processing and
bookkeeping, and technical skills, such as coaching.
• Volunteers in sport were motivated by their commitment
to athletic activity and their belief in a cause. They
wanted to have fun and to encourage others to do
likewise. Many wanted to contribute to promote cultural
as well as athletic endeavors. These volunteers saw
sport as a means of promoting personal growth, their
and that of others. They had been significantly
influenced by positive role models and hoped to become
role models of others. The priorities of the volunteers
went beyond sport, and they were committed to
improving the overall wellness of their communities.
• Sport for all Leadership
• Sport such as basketball, soccer, softball, and badminton can be
easily played by everyone and more readily organized if there is
someone in the community to assume leadership. These sports are
Sport for All and volunteering to organize or take a leadership role
contributes to the spreading of the Movement. Thus, Volunteerism is
essential to the speed of Sport for All
• It should be noted that although Sport for All promotes individual
participation based on the realization of the benefits of physical
activity, it is the volunteer leaders who provide direction and
guidance for these individuals through their timeless participations
on teams, organizations and executive boards.
• International organizations such as the UNV, IOC, TAFISA etc. are
realizing the need for trained leaders as well as guidelines for a
more systematic growth and they are officially defining the role and
scope of the volunteers throughout the different movements.
• United Nation Volunteers (UNV)
• The mission of the UNV is stated as follows:
• The United Nations Volunteers is the United Nations
organization
that
supports
sustainable
human
development globally through the promotion of
volunteerism, including the mobilization of volunteers. It
serves the causes of peace and development through
enhancing opportunities for participation by all peoples. It
is universal, inclusive and embraces volunteer action in
all its diversity. It values free will, commitment,
engagement and solidarity, which are the foundations of
volunteerism.
• coming together of individuals to work on a particular
project, thus leading to the expression of public
momentum. The economic perspective is addressed
through the reduction in salary costs and expenses,
while the cultural viewpoint is one of enhanced
knowledge on solidarity and multiculturalism; that is an
appreciation and value for all cultures.
• Sport for All and Volunteerism
• As we all know, it takes a tremendous volunteer effort to
sustain amateur sports around the world, and expanding
access to sports opportunities (Sport For all) requires the
participation of diverse volunteers.
• IOC defines Sport for All as a “movement aimed at
realizing the Olympic Ideal, which states that sport is a
right belonging to all individuals, transcending racial and
class differences. It is a movement which seeks to
• pursue the promotion of health, fitness, and well-being through
sporting activities which can be adapted to people of all ages, both
sexes and differing social and economic conditions, whether the
local and regional cultures. Sport for All encompasses all types of
sport, except for elite sport.”
• The TAFISA Volunteerism Charter was drafted in Warsaw in 2005,
with the purpose stating that “ TAFISA commits to work with
international organizations including UN, governments and national,
state, regional and local levels, international sporting associations
and their affiliates and NGOs and the private sector corporations to
document the rights and responsibilities, contribution and
accountabilities of volunteers associated with Sport for All, in order
to:
• Promote and support the development of volunteering for Sport for
All projects, programs, performances and community development
in all member countries.
• Provide an organizational opportunity for national sporting
associations and volunteering organizations to come together to
facilitate volunteer participation in the Sport for All movement around
the globe
• Take into account the needs of volunteers and
their organizations and find appropriate
mechanisms to facilitate increasing levels of
voluntary
effort
to
generate
unselfish,
multicultural and divers Sport for All events that
build trust and tolerance, social infrastructure
and international links.
• Advocate international, national, regional and
local initiatives that protect and build upon the
educational, legal, operational and social rights
and responsibilities of volunteers engaged in
Sport for All activities”
• And now I would like to introduce to you more about Sports for All in
Korea. There are three organizations Korea Olympic Committee,
Korea Sports Council, and The National Council of Sport for All
which I am in charge of.
• KOC is regarded as a committee for international affairs and handle
the most important affairs, such as the selections and training of
national players to the Olympics and Asian Games. On the other
hand, National Sport for All Council is a nonprofit corporation
aggregate. Its main program is mostly focused on the development
of policies on “Sport for All”, and to make sport as part of people’s
lives.
• The Korea National Council of Sport for All was founded in 1991 to
accommodate the Korean people’s demand for sport, which was still
high in the aftermath of the 1988-Olympics. It has 16 districts
councils based on provinces and metropolitan cities and 232 localcouncils based on local city unit. The number of sports clubs under
KNCSFA’s control is about 80,000 and their members count roughly
about 3 million people. This number equals almost 7% of entire
Republic of Korea population.
• In terms of the numbers of volunteers, KNCSFA has
about 120000 volunteers of which 110000 volunteers are
non-paid, and the remaining 10,000 volunteers, who are
in charge of more professional fields, are only paid for
the minimum cost of their activity.
• The means of KNCSFA comes from the central
government and the means of the sub-council comes
from the local government.
• During my career as a four-time-elected member of the
National Assembly, I myself, have also volunteered in
“Sports for All” organizations to enhance of my
understanding about “Sports for All”
• Due to this work I have been President of KNCSFA since
this June 2006.
• Among two central organizations, KSC and KNCSFA, the job
descriptions are quite clearly divided, but cooperation is made when
it is needed. Sports administration in Korea work effectively, though
there is still criticism about the clear division between elite sports
and ‘Sports for All’
• However, the people’s passion for sports is increasing quite rapidly
with the increase in income and leisure time. So sound settling of
“Sports for All” is expected to happen in the near future, and
hopefully the task of elite sports would there by be solved through
the boom of “Sports for All”, similar to that of the developed
countries.
• The motto of KNCSFA is “Sports for All, everywhere, anytime!” and
achieve this goal KNCSFA…
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Encourages more sports clubs to be founded
Encourages more people to join the clubs
Launches more ‘Sports for All’ programmes
Supports marginalized classes from Sports for All
Manage the Leaders of Sports for All and make best use of their skills
Contract international actors to further develop
Supplies useful information and does campaign activity
• Though, KNCSFA has only been around for 15-years, it
picked the proportion of people doing exercise, more
than 2 or 3 times per week, to 38.8% in 2003. Our
expected result for 2006, is to have more than 42%.
• Now, may I refer you to see the hand-out, all staff of
KNCSFA are doing their best to meet that new goal
which is to pick the proportion up to 50% by this year
2010. As part of this plan, also doing the campaign
called ‘7330 Campaign’ which means ‘exercise 30
minutes each time, per week’. To launch the campaign
most effectively, KNCSFA tries to get as much public
exposure as it can, through TV, radio, newspapers and
internet. For detailed information about ‘7330 Campaign’,
it is in the hand-out.
• KNCSFA will work harder, not only in domestic sport affairs, but also
to strengthen the relationships and networks with international
organizations such as TAFISA and ASFAA. We hold no doubt that
KNCSFA will play the most important role for hosting ‘World Sports
for All Festival’ in Busan in May 2008.
• For the development of sports in general and particularly the ‘Sport
for All’ – movement in Asian countries, we will need more capable
volunteers. To achieve that goal, more encouragement and
systematic support is needed. Hence as part of systemic support, I
would like to suggest a launch of the ‘Sport for All Volunteer
Leadership Training Course’ in the Pan-Asianian region.
• Since the 1980, volunteerism has become a growing trend for not
the operation of the sport events, but also for the successful
implementation of these events. In fact, the volunteers have become
on of the most important resources for not only putting together
these games, but also for carrying out the day-too-day functions of
the games.
• It can be said that sports for all means volunteerism for all: all racial
and ethnic
• groups, all ability levels all genders, and social
strata, and it is safe to say that the Sport for All
Movement is in fact the Volunteers Movement,
as volunteerism is the voluntary implementation
of Olympism the value of sport…
• Before finishing my speech I would like everyone
here to think thoroughly about my suggestion on
the organizational system for educating
volunteers and their communication within
Asiania. We hope to have an opportunity to
discuss these matters in depth in Seoul in the
near future.
• Thank you for your attention and your patience.
• Thank you.