Organization of volunteer activities within the framework of the project "Your Trajectory"

The article analyzes the organization of volunteer activities within the framework of the project “Your trajectory” implemented by the charitable foundation “Opening Horizons”, aimed at supporting teenagers and young adults who have been left without a family or find themselves in difficult life situations. The main features of volunteering are identified, including its social significance, participants' motivation, legal aspects, and organizational challenges. Data obtained through sociological research allowed for characterizing both objective and subjective components of voluntary work within the “Your trajectory” project. It was determined that the key feature of this project lies in engaging corporate volunteers from ROSTIC'S, students of various specializations from Altai State University, and activists to provide psychological, legal, and career guidance support to children deprived of parental care. The methodology of this study is based on a combination of systemic activity approach and structural functionalism. Research into the organization of volunteer work within the project relied on a set of qualitative and quantitative methods of sociological inquiry, such as in-depth interviews and questionnaire surveys conducted among project volunteers. Empirical data served as the basis for describing and comprehensively characterizing the organization of volunteer work within the project. The authors conclude that the organization of volunteerism under the implementation of the “Your trajectory” project relies on an advanced program that helps adolescents determine their future direction and make informed professional choices. This program operates in more than 50 regions of Russia and represents a successful model. Further studies in this area will allow for deeper exploration of important functions of volunteer work: assisting children from assistance centers in determining their life path while simultaneously creating conditions for self-realization and civic engagement of youth.

Volunteering, social adaptation, project, motivation, legal culture, social institutions, social support, orphans, social responsibility, difficult life situation