Level 1 Challenge: A Full Volunteering Day
One day, from arrival to departure. Every decision needs more than one of the courses behind it, and there is not always a comfortable option.
- Length
- 25 min
- modules
- 4
- questions
- 8
- Pass mark
- 70%
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Course information
- Level
- 1
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Length
- 25 min
- modules
- 4
- questions
- 8
- Pass mark
- 70%
- Language
- Arabic / English
- Certificate
- Certificate of completion on passing
Who this is for
- Anyone who has finished the five level 1 courses
- Volunteers about to do their first field activity
- Anyone wanting to know whether what they learned has become decisions
What you get
- The level 1 certificate
- Level 2 unlocked
- A report of what you need to revise
What you will learn
Course contents
Before anyone arrives
A recreational activity for thirty children in a rented hall. There are four of you, and the team coordinator is running late.
You arrive an hour early. The hall is larger than expected and has two doors: one onto the street and one onto an unfenced yard at the back. Nobody has assigned roles yet, and everyone is waiting for the coordinator.
Your decision
Fifty minutes left, the coordinator has not arrived and is not answering. What do you do first?
Your decision
A colleague suggests locking the back door so no child can wander out. What do you think?
Names and photographs
The children start arriving. You are holding a name list with a guardian’s phone number against each one.
Your decision
The hall manager asks for a copy of the name list "for our records". What do you do?
A difficult scenario
How do you handle photography today?
A father hands over his daughter and says, "take lots of photos of her, I like seeing them." Another girl beside her has parents who refuse photography.
The middle of the day
The activity is running. This is where the things nobody writes into a plan show up.
A difficult scenario
What do you do now?
A seven-year-old has refused to join in all morning and sits in the corner. You go over; he cries, says he wants his mother, then says: "Dad shouts a lot when he gets back."
Your decision
A colleague loses his temper and shouts at a group of children who were disrupting him. They fall silent and some look frightened. What do you do?
The last hour
The children are leaving. More mistakes happen in this hour than any other, because everyone is tired and wants it over.
A difficult scenario
What do you do?
A man you have not seen before says he is one girl’s uncle and that her mother sent him. The girl knows him and seems comfortable. His name is not on the authorised pick-up list, and her mother is not answering.
Your decision
The day is over. What has to be written down, and for whom?
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Standards this content is built on
- • IFRC Volunteering Policy (August 2022)
- • International Child Safeguarding Standards — Keeping Children Safe
- • Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (2024 edition)
- • Do No Harm principle in humanitarian action