To be MCE Volunteers!

Workcamps can be beneficial for BOTH local / global communities AND volunteers. They should be consistent with each other, but sometimes inconsistent when volunteers request/ do something not good for local people/communities.

Some volunteers have misunderstood that workcamp are only for volunteers to experience unique holiday & culture and to exchange just in the group. Volunteers should feel happy by that the communities/ world become happy ! (This never means to be victims or sacrifices for the world.) We believe that such persons are real volunteers and we appreciate to have had such many volunteers. Let’s create happier & exciting world together with us. We introduce some good examples and tragedies caused by foreign vols. in our history;

 Propose the positive ideas

When you find any problems, please do not just complain or keep silence, but propose the alternative plans. In the workcamp of Philippine, volunteers organized evening activities such as discussion, games and play by turns day by day in the second week, by a suggestion of a volunteer. Since that, the atmosphere & solidarity became much greater!

If you are adults…

When a leader asked vols. to go to bed, they answered "We're not kids. We decide by ourselves." But the next day, many of them got up late, delayed for the work (locals waited for them) and didn't work well because they were sleepy. If you are adults, you may go to bed late only if you can keep time & work well later on (not to make troubles to other people.)



 Don’t kiss & show love deeply in front of people…

In Mongolia, two vols. became a couple. When the group visited a kindergarten school, they did it very deeply in front of kids for a long time. As local people in a country side are still quite conservative, they got very angry. By that small action, the workcamp as a whole were damaged a lot

since some thought that all vols. as immoral and one even said "Go out, Workcampers!!"



 Leaving early...?

It is not possible for you to leave the workcamp before the last day UNLESS all of leaders, local partners and the group permit though it is anyway not good for the workcamp.



 Huge possibility!

Though some may say, "Workcamp can do little to make the world better by voluntary work since it's just for short term and not specialists.", we believe not. To be beginners & short term is not always a weak point, but can be advantage;