WHAT IS SAVE?
This is the time in your life when you have the energy, the intelligence, and the heart to make a difference.
S.A.V.E. is for volunteers who see a need in the streets of Paris, in their own neighborhood, or in the world at large, and as a result, have a desire to do something about it.
By gaining knowledge, taking action, and collaborating with others, SAVE participants take a step further in their time volunteering with Serve The City Paris, to make an even bigger impact in Paris or in your local community.
The S.A.V.E. Program comprises of four key principles: Service. Action, Values, and Empowerment. SAVE members capture knowledge through interactive workshops, gain experience through volunteer activities, and develop impact and change through collaboration on SAVE ‘Capstone projects’. SAVE program participants can also take advantage of coaching, lab work, events, and learning the best practices of volunteering.
The SAVE Member Program started in Paris France where socialism is practiced in both the political and cultural infrastructure. After working at the frontline on humanitarian and environmental issues in Paris for over 9 years, combined with the knowledge shared by other Serve the City International chapters found in over 100 cities worldwide, the SAVE program has the knowledge, tools, and resources to help volunteers become agents of change in their communities.
We invite you to join the SAVE program while you are in Paris. Whether it’s a long term or a short term stay, you can make a difference on our humanitarian and environmental challenges we face every day.
THE SAVE PROGRAM KEY PRINCIPLES
Each of the four SAVE principles helps steer the program to guide and facilitate the development of volunteers. Each principle is a key ingredient in the success of helping volunteers create impact and change in our communities.
SERVICE
Service is about sacrifice. Social Impact initiatives
are all about helping other people first and foremost.
We keep this front and center in the way tackle all
humanitarian and environmental issues.
When we help others, we change as human beings.
Soon after, we learn how to help others in our
communities gain the confidence to take similar
positive actions. Then together, we can create
the change required in our communities.
Service is a key principle in both our own
personal development and the development
of others. We lead by example, by servicing
others and the environment.
ACTION
No good social impact initiative is purely theoretical,
and you won’t change much if you’re not willing to
get out there and experience the challenges of others
first-hand.
We believe taking action early in the process is a major
step to discovering solutions and remedies for today’s
humanitarian and environmental challenges. The first
32 hours of volunteering is what the SAVE program
requires from it’s volunteers to at least build a base of
experience and knowledge, in order to initiate the idea
of change or impact in one’s community.
first-hand.
VALUES
There is preparation and direction behind
every great idea or action. Behind this is
idea or action, is a compass of values that
orient our direction. When we are able to
reflect upon our value structure, even when
we are unsure how to proceed, our values
help us to act meaningfully in the projects
in which we participate. Then we are much
more effective in the projects we engage in.
In all SAVE activities and workshops, we
discuss, and most importantly, carry out
the very values we as volunteers possess.
EMPOWERMENT
Confidence is critical to making change and
impact. Confidence is also critical when
empowering others to make change.
Confidence can be achieved by having
a strong sense of purpose. Those who have a
strong sense of purpose achieve their goals.
The program aims to empower volunteers by
helping them find their sense of purpose
and how to use it to lead and create
positive social impact in a community. Once
a volunteer is empowered with a sense of
purpose, they can empower others too.
positive social impact in a community. Once