By implementing this project, we wanted to achieve the following: 1. Teach staff how to implement clear and motivating expectations that can positively challenge volunteers in organisations' efforts while establishing a sense of community service and teamwork between staff and volunteers, as well as carefully differentiating the responsibilities of the two groups to clear up any confusion about roles. 2. teach staff how to avoid giving volunteers monotonous and unfulfilling tasks to encourage them to stay with the organisations they volunteer for. That is, teaching staff to assign volunteers valuable duties to increase their sense of loyalty, ease, and satisfaction. Moreover, if they would leave for other opportunities, let it be done more constructively and responsibly. 3. teach staff how to assign volunteers with exciting roles such as grant-writing tasks to offer them valuable experience and learning opportunities in the organisation; help with fundraising; plan and organise events; or why not create a way to involve volunteers in training other volunteers in order to retain them to the cause and aspiration of organisations.
The context of this project is such as ADYNE wanted to keep providing quality community assistance to the people and groups it assists. We needed our team to acquire new volunteers' management and retention competencies to keep up with this quality community service. We also wanted to implement activities with the intent to inform and train staff on how to constructively work with volunteers while appreciating their effort's impact towards providing solutions to problems and challenges African migrant communities face in their hosting countries. This is because, in the Netherlands particularly, migrant communities keep facing tremendous internal violence and discrimination, including gender-based violence, religious or cultural. The account of violence in marriage migrants was a good illustration. Mostly affects women whose partners often take advantage of these women’s vulnerable position to commit violence, including sexual abuse, abandonment, and many other unlawful threats. Indeed, addressing and reporting such domestic violence requires a skilled team wherein staff and volunteers work in synergy to respond to such a community problem appropriately.