Posted by “A sound enabling environment must create a favourable framework in which people’s energy and creativity can be motivated, mobilized and rewarded.”
Mawlana Hazar Imam
Conference on Central Asia and Europe, Berlin, Germany, 13 November 2007
Speech
“What a sound enabling environment must do is to create a favourable framework in which human creativity can flourish… In the end, human progress must grow out of the human heart and soul. The environment enables – but it is the human spirit, guided and supported by the Divine Will, which eventually triumphs.
Mawlana Hazar Imam
The Enabling Environment Conference, Kabul, Afghanistan, 4 June 2007
Speech
“The voluntary sector represents, and can develop, all that is finest in the human potential….Yet the voluntary sector….has a tendency to follow a “charity” approach.…It is my profound conviction that steps to strengthen institutions and the linkages between them are critical to the freedom of the individual to be creative and productive in a socially responsible manner. This is the essence of the Enabling Environment….We must show greater faith in the ability of the individual to be creative.”
Mawlana Hazar Imam
Keynote Address at the International Development Conference, Washington DC, 18 March 1987
Speech
“We have all seen examples of God’s most wonderful creature, the person, whether in a government bureau, a business, or a private development agency, who is inspired to give generously of himself, to go beyond the mechanical requirements of a task. Such men and women, paid or unpaid, express the spirit of the volunteer, literally the will to make a product better, a school the best, a clinic more compassionate and effective. Their spirit, generating new ideas, resisting discouragement, and demanding results, animates the heart of every effective society.
I submit that one of our great goals, if we are to create an enabling environment of hope and determination, is to give our volunteers opportunities to become more expert and professional – more rational and skilled, without killing their passion.”
Mawlana Hazar Imam
Enabling Environment Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, 21 October 1986
Speech
“When volunteers are taken seriously the quality of their contribution and their own sense of satisfaction literally soar.”
Princess Zahra
International Association for Volunteer Effort World Conference, Edmonton, Canada, 25 August 1998
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