President Ilham Aliyev signed on December 30 an order on declaring 2020 the Year of Volunteers in Azerbaijan Republic.
In accordance with the order, 2020 has been declared the Year of Volunteers to promote the individual development of the youth, increase the social responsibility in them, properly use the potential of the youth for the welfare of the people and sustainable development of the country.
The Cabinet of Ministers has been given the task to prepare an action plan in connection with this and submit it to the President of Azerbaijan within one month.
The order cites that volunteering is the most successful format of the joint activity of the citizens, society and state uniting people around the common intention. At the same time, volunteering is a patriotism school and the example of the connection and service for the people, state and national moral values.
The necessary steps have been taken by our state for the promotion of this activity; the normative-legal basis has been refined; the state support mechanisms have been formed. Volunteering has integrated in many fields and turned into a national movement, envisaged all the groups of our society and become a lifestyle of our youth. ASAN, “Regional Development” Public Union, “One” Student Volunteers and other volunteer movements have been established; volunteer groups uniting tens of thousands of young people have been formed in local executive bodies.
Our volunteers have given a new breath to this activity by their creativity, initiative, innovative thoughts and contemporary outlook and played an exceptional role in the implementation of large-scale international events, such as the Eurovision Song Contest, I European Games, Formula 1, IV Islamic Solidarity Games.
The Volunteer Week, that was held in Azerbaijan on December 5th - on the eve of the International Volunteers Week, has demonstrated that volunteering in our country has stepped on a new stage and has big potential.