The topic of openness and honesty is the most significant for the initial stage of volunteer service, when the future volunteer and the volunteer organization first get to know each other.

One of the most important principles of organizing a volunteer movement (group) is that it is unhelpful and even harmful to fit people to ideas, to “events” and even more so to “reports.

Volunteering is a kind of alliance or partnership between several parties, where each has its own rights and responsibilities, its own boundaries.

Working with volunteer groups, and with volunteers in general, involves compulsory work in three areas.