The Cardoner Volunteers is a year-long volunteer service program offered to graduates and faculty members of the Ateneo de Davao University. As part of the over-all social formation track of the university, the program seeks to strengthen the social spirituality of every Atenean, translated into volunteerism and service for and with the marginalized and vulnerable sectors of society. These volunteers will commit themselves for a year (10 months to be exact) of service and will be integrated to partner communities/institutions which has specific set of needs that can hopefully be addressed by the volunteer and the program as a whole. Moreover, it aims to harness holistic growth of volunteers as they encounter a transformative experience through interreligious and intercultural dialogue.
There are two (2) categories of Cardoner Volunteers; the Graduate and Faculty.
(1) Graduate
A graduate refers to a college graduate of the Ateneo de Davao University. Anyone who is preferably 21 years of age or older shall be accepted. An aspiring volunteer should be self-motivated, mature, healthy and willing to undergo a formative encounter. S/he must show interest to grow in the areas of spirituality, social justice, peace, and inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue.
Since this is purely volunteer work, a volunteer will not be compensated but shall modestly be entitled of the following privileges:
i. Monthly Living Allowance (mobility, communication, personal essentials)
ii. Board and lodging courtesy of a foster family and/or institutional billeting
iii. Medical and Accident Insurance Plan to cover the duration of deployment
iv. Basic deployment kit
v. Opportunities for transformative growth thru formative sessions and experiential learning
(2) Faculty
Faculty Volunteers consists of bona fide faculty members of the Ateneo de Davao University regardless of rank, position and employment status. Any faculty who has the heart to do volunteer work and is eagerly interested to share his/her expertise in their own field is welcomed. There are two (2) sub-categories for the Faculty Cardoner Volunteers, the Auxiliary and Full-time.
(2a) Auxiliary
These volunteer faculty members will be organized to act as resource persons and mentors in their own fields of expertise. They are ready to be deployed to assigned areas for several days or assist in the skills enhancement and capacity building of our partner schools/institutions.
An Auxiliary shall modestly be entitled of the following privileges:
i. Honorarium per activity facilitated
ii. Board and lodging in the duration of the service
iii. Transportation
iv. Accident Insurance to cover the entire duration of deployment
v. Corresponding merits to the rank and promotion scheme (Formation, Instruction and Engagement)
(2b) Full Time
These faculty, like the graduate volunteers, shall be deployed for a year of service in any identified areas of deployment. S/he must secure an approval from his/her immediate supervisor to temporarily relinquish his/her current post and be given a consent for a special assignment as a Full-Time Faculty Cardoner Volunteer. The Faculty shall be sent to mission as part of his/her formative program.
A Full-time volunteer shall modestly be entitled of the following privileges:
i. Retention of employment including rank and position upon returning to AdDU after one (1) year of volunteer service.
ii. Monthly cost of living allowance.
iii. Food and Accommodation courtesy of a foster family and/or institutional billeting
iv. Medical and Accident Insurance Plan to cover the duration of deployment
v. Corresponding merits to the rank and promotion scheme (Formation, Instruction and Engagement)
Deployment Areas:
a. Bangsamoro Areas through the Madaris Volunteer Program (see www.teachmadaris.org)
b. Lake Sebu, South Cotabato (Lake Sebu Indigenous Women Weavers Association)
c. Taunggyi, Myanmar (St. Aloysius Gonzaga English Language Institute)
By the Cardoner River, St. Ignatius was moved by a transformative experience where “he sat down for a little while with his face to the river which was running deep. While he was seated there, the eyes of his understanding began to be opened; though he did not see any vision, he understood and knew many things, both spiritual things and matters of faith and learning, and this was with so great an enlightenment that everything seemed new to him. It was as if he were a new man with a new intellect.” It is our hope that those who will join this volunteer program will also encounter this transformative experience, this joy that flows like a raging river, in the active building of friendship and in dialogue through witnessing.
To volunteer or for inquiries kindly contact:
KARL ANTHONY P. EBOL, RSW
Coordinator
Cardoner Volunteers
Arrupe Office of Social Formation
Ateneo de Davao University
E. Jacinto St., Davao City
Tel no. (082) 221-24-11 local 8329-8330
Mobile no. (+63) 917 722 2910 | (+63) 998 580 9800
Email Add kapebol@addu.edu.ph | eboy.karl@gmail.com