Since 2008, Hattaya Wongsaengpaiboon has been working at VSO, an international development charity whose volunteers work with local organizations to improve poor people’s lives. Working with professional volunteers, migrant community members, community based organizations, international organizations and Thailand’s Ministries, Hattaya brings corporate experience to the development field where is has found her passion. She will be addressing the benefits of corporate volunteering; including staff motivation, team spirit and employee retention, as well as community impact. Hattaya holds a Bachelor Degree in Law from Thammasat University.

1. Employee
Volunteering
programme
19 Sep 2013 at
SCSM

2. Voluntary
Organizational
Contribute
labor and
time
Not for Profit Charitable
Volunteer
What is Volunteering?

3. • Develop their soft skills – leadership, time management,
problem solving skills
Impact on employee
• Refine existing skills and gain new knowledge
• Improve mental and physical health
• Motivation

4. • Increasing employee productivity and loyalty
Impact on company
• Aligning positive outcomes for poor people with
strengthened business supply chains
• Demonstrating your business understands its role in society
and its place in the community

5. Impact on people’s lives
• Volunteer employees sharing their skills with developing
communities is a catalyst that enables people to help
themselves out of poverty.

6. The important benefits of employee volunteering
come not from the fact that it exists, but from the
way in which it is carried out.

7. What?
VSO is a development organisation that fights poverty through volunteers.
Vision:
Our vision is for a world without poverty.
Mission:
Our mission is to bring people together to fight poverty including
education, health, secure livelihoods, gender equality and advocacy.
When?
VSO began in 1958, 16 young British volunteers to teach English.
So far more than 40,000 VSO volunteers of 94 nationalities have made a
difference in 90 countries.

8. The VSO ripple effect

9. VSO Volunteering

10. VSO Volunteering

11. Accenture - VSO

12. Google – VSO (UK and India)
• Google linked with VSO and their employee volunteering
programme
• sent employee volunteers from USA and placed in India
through VSO
• VSO India organised In Country Training, short term
placement for Google employees with local partner
organisations.

13. Google - VSO India

14. P&G - VSO China
• P&G has been making donations to build Hope Schools in
China for 15 years
• VSO provided “Preparing to Volunteer” training to mobilize
and equip P&G employee volunteers to provide help for
Hope School student’s ‘Live, learn and Thrive’

15. Lenovo - VSO China
• Lenovo has become the largest PC maker in the world and its
corporate volunteering strategy in China incorporate its
business and people strategy
• VSO China supported Lenovo China Volunteer Association in
capacity building and strategic planning

16. • Consultation
• Tailored Trainings
– Volunteer programme development and
management
– Working with NGOs
– Volunteer pre-departure
VSO in Thailand

17. Hattaya.Wongsaengpaiboon@vsoint.org
Hattaya.w@gmail.com
www.vsointernational.org
VSO office : Sukhumvit 13
02-651-2610-2
VSO in Thailand