Volunteers are the integral part of any community radio station of the world and they are the working force that ensures the community participation. But who are the volunteers? Are they persons used to spend their times for the community radio or who have a clear aim or objective to serve a community using any media of communication? Or simply a volunteer is an unpaid labour? Can we define volunteer as individual, organizational or in the community as a whole? The purpose of this study is to examine the concept of ‘volunteerism’ in context of community radio of South Asia and to find a sustainable model of volunteerism for the community radio stations.
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Volunteers are usually not paid for people who have interest in and do provide contents in community radios. Their major driving force is to see the continuous broadcasting of the station with acceptabale contents
Volunteers are not paid. Because they have an interest in providing contents that they feel will meet the needs of the listeners of that community radio. They are not idle people either who just their voices to be on air. Their main interest is to provide information that they feel are needed
The definition of community radio itself says that it is for the people, by the people and to the people. In true sense the members of the community who own the community radio devote their own time for the betterment through programmes broadcast. Nothing will be paid to volunteers.
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