Difference between N-power Volunteers and Beneficiaries

Who is a Volunteer?

Who is a beneficiary?

We got one of the applicants asking: What’s the major difference between a volunteer and beneficiary on our twitter handle @npowerngs. And we thought you might also want to find the answer useful.

Let’s break it down…

Who is a Volunteer?

There may not be a universal definition of who a volunteer is, but a volunteer is “a person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task without a financial gain.”

Volunteering  job in relation to N-power Programme

The brains behind N-power Nigeria knew what the word means when they came up with it. That’s why your monthly payment is called “stipend.” The stipend is what volunteers are paid. Those say N30,000 is small for graduates have points, but they must take into cognizance the word volunteer.

“Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity where an individual or group provides services for no financial gain “to benefit another person, group or organization.” Volunteering is also renowned for skill development and is often intended to promote goodness or to improve human quality.” ---Wikipedia

The keywords are highlighted above:

For no financial gain: The monthly take home isn’t called salary because the programme wasn’t  designed in that line, it’s designed to open your eyes to loads of opportunities around you via its powerful skill development embedded in the N-power tablet devices.

To benefit another person or group: Your Place of primary assignment in your local governments, states are the groups who benefit from your services. N-Teachers are posted to schools to fill the gap as a result of lack of manpower in most of the government schools across the country. The same is applicable to health facilities.

For skill development: N-power is designed to develop you through Freemium Courses (something you could have made to pay for, but made available for you totally FREE) in your N-power Tablet Devices.

Who is a beneficiary?

The word beneficiary is broader in meaning, but we’re going to narrow it down: “a person who receives benefit from a benefactor is a beneficiary.

Benefactor in this context is the organizer of the N-power Programme: The Federal Government

Beneficiary: N-power Volunteers

Benefits: Empowerment and training via the N-power tablet Devices and your monthly stipend are the benefits.

Volunteer and benefiary

 In N-power, volunteer and beneficiary are used interchangeably. For instance, if you applied for a volunteer job at World Health Organisation, you can’t be called a volunteer until you are successfully considered for the job.

So N-power Volunteer is a person who applied for any of the available programmes (N-Agro, N-Teach, N-Health, N-Tax), and passed the assessment, and the verification and was successfully shortlisted.

If you have applied and written the online assessment test of N-power, you are not a volunteer until you passed all the application processes set by the recruitment team and your name finds itself to the payroll.

All the successful N-power 2016 first batch who are currently on FG’s payroll are volunteers, could also be called beneficiaries.

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