Corporate volunteering in Moldova is regulated by the Law on Volunteering, but there are now mechanisms for implementing this law. As a result, many of the employers are not interested in encouraging experience exchange that requires time, executive director of the Association “Youth for the Right to Life” CristinaDolgher has told IPN.

The legislation obliges the employers to allow the employees to provide unpaid work in a nongovernmental organization or a public institution. The large firms choose yet short-term actions like promotion or charity campaigns, which make the company visible for a short period. The advantages of corporate volunteering, which are long-term ones, are usually ignored by the employers, stated CristinaDolgher.

According to her, volunteering promotes experience exchange between the employees and the members of an organization or institution. In case of NGOs, corporate governance offers the chance of benefiting from the services of different specialists. The company’s employees can learn certain communication and organizational skills from NGOs within volunteer activities.

CristinaDolgher also said that the practice of corporate volunteering is widely used in the European states, but in Moldova the businesses are not ready to become involved in such activities. Over 100 representatives of large companies were invited recently to a workshop to be explained the advantages of corporate volunteering, but few of them accepted the invitation and took part in the discussions.