BECOME A VOLUNTEER
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1. What can I do as a volunteer?
Speak directly to voters.
Several ways including:
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1. Go to the UDC Campaign offices and make phone calls
2. Meeting Voters door-to-door
3. Calling potential voters and financial donors
4. Collecting signatures to get a UDC candidate on the ballot
5. Monitoring news coverage of the campaign
6. Attending UDC rallies, parades and other events with the UDC Candidates
7. Posting up yard and other signs, banners, posters, car stickers
8. Handing out campaign literature at public evening
9. Getting out the vote on Election Day.
If you are a student, you can reach out to other students.
Another part is something more unconventional. As a student you can host house parties to engage political discussion.
Another event for students is a 'Dorm Storm,' where a lot of students get together and hand out fliers in the dorms and halls about the campaign's issues.
Employ your digital skills.
Young people especially can bring a sense of energy to campaigns,
When it comes to social media, they have skill sets that maybe other folks in the campaign may not have.
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2. What is the time commitment?
Create your own schedule.
It's up to the volunteer, If you want to spend an hour per week at an office, or an hour a week with friends, that's an option. If you want to spend six or seven hours a week working for the campaign, that's an option too.
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3. Why should I volunteer?
To develop an understanding of the political system in Botswana and your personal stances.
It's important for all people to understand how political campaigns work and how they effect change in government,.
Use volunteering as an opportunity to learn what others have to say and refine your political beliefs.
Also, you'll feel a sense of accomplishment from working for a campaign and getting to experience so many different things, from knocking on doors to making phone calls or working in the campaign headquarters.
To make an impact regardless of your age.
Volunteering will each you that you can change your world .
When you're eighteen, some people don't take you seriously and it's hard to get recognized. But in politics, whether you are fifteen or fifty, your voice can have the same impact
Contact volunteer@dumbaboko2019.com for advise and assistance on Volunteering.
"It ought to be axiomatic in this country that every man must devote a reasonable share of his time to doing his duty in the Political life of the community." —Theodore Roosevelt