摘要：Youth volunteering has become a vital tool for development in recent years. Worsening challengesthat afflict communities such as HIV/AIDS, Unemployment and poverty, among others have increased the demandfor volunteers. However, despite this high demand for volunteers, voluntary participation of youth is decreasing.Yet, it is not clear why this is happening. Consequently, failure to address this problem might deepen poverty,youth irresponsibility and curtail development efforts particularly in developing communities. This paper exploredstrategies which can be implemented to increase youth voluntary participation in Mutoko District. A qualitativeapproach involving focus group discussions and individual interviews was employed. Youth participants wereselected using a multistage stratified random sampling technique. The qualitative data was analysed using thethematic system and matrix ranking technique. Results indicated that the strategies for promoting volunteeringvaried with geographical locations and gender. It was therefore deduced that strategies for volunteering must becrafted taking into consideration gender and distance from the urban area. The need for target oriented strategieswas therefore apparent.
关键词：Volunteering; Young People; Participation; Grassroots Community
