UNIT 1: History, Philosophy & Policies of Palms

Introduction

This unit provides an introduction to the history, philosophy and policies of Palms International Volunteering.

Please either click through the slide presentation below or read the one page summary of Key Milestones on our Volunteering Journey and the Vision, Mission & Values document. Palms policies can be found here (Palms Child Safeguarding, GEDSI & Modern Slavery policies are referred to in the quiz). The best way to view the slides is to click on the three vertical dots in the bottom left hand corner and select ‘Enter full screen’.

Please complete the quiz at the bottom of this page before continuing to Unit 2: Telling the Story.

1.1 Opening our hands to the World

QUIZ: History, Philosophy and Policies & Procedures

When answering the following questions please choose the most correct response. Click on START to begin.
QUIZ: History and Philosophy of Palms
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1. Palms International Volunteering (as the Paulian Association) started in
2. After PNG what was the first Pacific country Palms Participants undertook assignments:
3. The major purpose of Palms Global Mission is to:
4. What is the key value of Palms?
5A. You work in an all-female environment of professional social workers and church community workers. This means that you don’t need to worry about Child Safeguarding.
5B. Why ?
6. It is important for Palms to promote disability inclusion because
7. Under the Palms Whistleblower Policy, you are protected if you report (to the Executive Officer, Board member or if they are involved, ASIC) where you have reasonable grounds to suspect:
8. You notice that one of the boys in your school/community centre has a tendency to bully the younger children. You call him in to talk to him and tell him that you will need to speak to his father about this. You can see an immediate reaction of fear in the child.
9. You can see that your host organisation would very much benefit from an additional long term volunteer, and one has been requested of Palms but has not yet been found. You are a great photographer and are confident that – if only people would see the beautiful people at the centre you work at, they would volunteer immediately. You take many candid shots of activities in the centre, including of children playing.
10. Any instance of actual or suspected modern slavery amounts to a ‘disclosable matter’ under Palms’ Whistleblower Policy
11. Inequality arises because:
12. You know that your host organisation supports Child Safeguarding but is very busy and unable to yet develop its own policy. More than one of the following may be appropriate action for you:
13. Exploitative treatment of workers is:
14. Palms participants are valued and trusted by our partners and (more than one answer may apply):
15. Palms will only undertake aid or development activities, including community development and education in support of these activities. It does not engage in, or support, any religious proselytising activities and is not linked to any political party. In some instances, Palms may partner with local faith-based organisations on the basis that the agreed-to scope of work is without religious proselytising or making participation conditional on conversion or adherence to any particular religion.
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