JUSTICE FOR CHILDREN
Volunteer Policy
PREAMBLE
This policy shall be a Volunteering Policy for JCT which is a non profit making organization that
provides free legal services to children in difficult circumstances in Zimbabwe.
PURPOSE
The purpose of this policy is to:
Reinforce the importance of volunteering to JCT
Establish basic values and attitudes for JCT towards volunteering.
Set out responsibilities of JCT towards their volunteers.
Set out the responsibilities of people who volunteer for JCT.
DEFINATIONS
Volunteering in JCT context involve:
Is intended to benefit children in difficult circumstances in Zimbabwe in accordance with
JCT mission and vision.
A JCT volunteer is a person who caries out volunteer activities for the organization
occasionally or regularly.
Motivation by free will of the person volunteering and not for the desire for material or
financial gain or by external, socio-economic or political pressure.
A completed case is a case which has been finalized by way of an out of court settlement,
court hearing and having had full legal advice.
Benefits shall include volunteer allowances as shall be stipulated by JCT from time to
time, incentives such as T- shirts, bags, stationery as shall be prescribed by JCT from
time to time.
Reasonable expenses shall cover expenses any reasonable person would incur in such a
position, final decision shall be made by JCT financial and administrative manager.
SCOPE
This policy shall apply to all JCT volunteers.