THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES IN SPREADING THE CULTURE OF VOLUNTEER PARTICIPATION AMONG STUDENTS

Abstract

The Kingdom’s Vision 2030 emphasizes the necessity of activating the role of volunteer work and increasing the number of volunteers from 11,000 to 3 million volunteers. (Kingdom’s Vision 2030, p. 71) Then, this research comes to identify the role of universities in spreading the culture of volunteerism among students. The government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been keen to motivate local social institutions of various types to participate voluntarily. Among these social institutions are Saudi universities, with their human energies and potential, especially Saudi youth, who are considered the primary human energy in society as a whole. From this standpoint, the current study, which is being applied to (6) Saudi universities, is keen to identify the role of universities in spreading the culture of voluntary participation among their students, the nature of youth participation mechanisms, the extent to which these mechanisms are activated in the current and future phase, and how to achieve the Kingdom’s 2030 vision, in the field of Volunteer work and its various aspirations, especially benefiting from youth energies in Saudi universities.