Comhlámh Code of Good Practice for Volunteer Sending Agencies
Mustard Seed Communities Ireland is a proud signatory to the Comhlámh Code of Good Practice for Volunteer Sending Agencies. Comhlámh’s Code of Good Practice is a set of standards for Irish Volunteer Sending Agencies facilitating international placements. The Code is based on a vision of volunteers working in solidarity for a just, equitable and sustainable world. It promotes responsible and responsive volunteering to ensure a positive impact for the overseas project and community, the volunteer and the sending agency.
The Code promotes development education, which enables people to more deeply understand the world around us and to address the root causes of inequality and poverty. Every Volunteer Sending Agency, which is party to the Code of Good Practice, commits to the implementation of the Code’s five values that underpin the work of international volunteer programmes.
These are:
- Solidarity
- Respect
- Social Justice
- Ecological Sustainability
- Integrity
Full details of the Code are here.
Comhlámh is a member organisation that works to mobilise for an equitable and sustainable world. As the Irish association of development workers and volunteers, Comhlámh promotes responsible international volunteering and development work. Comhlámh supports people in their journey of working for social justice. Comhlámh works with returned volunteers, partner organisations, and member groups to foster just, inclusive societies, through progressive grassroots activism in Ireland and internationally.
More details of Comhlámh work can be found here.
