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"On this spot, Nina remembered that money isn’t everything."
Depending on where you are, you may have noticed these little stickers appearing on lampposts, ATM machines and elsewhere. They’re designed to resemble marble or granite tablets and have pithy phrases about life on them. They were put up by the philanthropic society Prostovoljstvo.org in a guerilla marketing scheme to get Slovenes interested in doing volunteer work.
I find it a little strange that there’s a volunteer organization whose primary focus is to promote volunteerism. It’s also a bit ironic that they use vandalism to encourage people to build a better community. Still, they’ve got a very tough battle ahead of them.
As mentioned here, Slovenian men and women are among the most unenthusiastic volunteers on the continent. Judging by Prostovoljstvo’s barren forums, it doesn’t look like people are exactly stampeding to help out. Will these lamppost stickers turn the tide? Only time will tell!
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there was a grafitti scribbled next to one of those stickers that were posted on a bus station. The grafitti said “Money isn`t everything..sometimes u need a bus ticket too”.
Hm, speaking of unenthusiastic volunteers: one of the reasons Greeks believed the Athens Olympics would be a total disaster was that there was definitely no chance they would do any volunteer work whatsoever.
In the end, they had 150,000 applications for 50,000 volunteer positions.
So, maybe all that Slovenes need is a chance to have their volunteering instincts triggered…
Please dont knock the lack of volunteers.
Many volunteer here because they must in
order to collect their social assistance.
Its not really volunteerism at all and there
are those who are just padding resumes for
politics
When you pay half your income to taxes, I think you are entitled to assume that the poor are being taken care of.
I guess here the goverment doesnt look after
the poor very well so there are a lot of
charities and volunteers. But there are alot
of sweetners to get out the volunteers. one
thing is the art auction where you bid hours
that will be served to get the art. Once you’ve done your time you get the desired
object. Also people like to go to charity
dances and balls because you can meet people
but also look concerned (hehe)
Crni: 100 points!