Our volunteers

Who are the people that power the movement? What do they do as volunteers, and more importantly, what drives them?

Vote4Climate Action in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. © Norman Hiu / Greenpeace

Greenpeace Malaysia Volunteers in action

Values

What values are expected of a Greenpeace Volunteer?

Direct Dialogue in Pau, France. © Lilian Cazabet / Greenpeace
Greenpeace France Direct Dialogue Campaigners talk to pedestrians in central Pau (South-West of France) to promote Greenpeace’s campaigns and encourage them to support the organisation.
© Lilian Cazabet / Greenpeace
Committed
A Greenpeace Forest Fire Prevention (FFP) team member walks through the haze as he investigates the forest fires in burned peatland at a sanctuary reserve area inside the oil palm concession of PT Globalindo Agung Lestari (GAL) in Mantangai, Kapuas district, Central Kalimantan. PT GAL is under the group of Malaysian company Genting Plantations Berhad.
Acts with Integrity
Tourists sign up and pledge to break free from plastic at Batu Caves, Malaysia Greenpeace volunteers and suppoters hold a waste clean-up at Batu Cave, Malaysia during Earth Day event to show their care to the nature and religious place. Greenpeace is calling for the people in Malaysia to start reducing the use of single-use plastic. Batu Caves is a an iconic and popular tourist attraction in Selangor. A site of a Hindu temple and shrine, It also attracts thousands of worshippers and tourists, especially during the annual Hindu festival, Thaipusam
Professional
Sofía Gómez, Influencer and Freediver. © Diana Rey Melo / Greenpeace
After the Galapagos Leg for research activities, the Arctic Sunrise arrived for the first time in the Colombian Pacific as a part of the Global Plastic Campaign. The call is to protect our ocean from plastic pollution, having a strong plastic treaty and reduce at least 75% of the plastic production. The ship tour headed to Malpelo Island Flora and Fauna Sanctuary (declared Natural Heritage by UNESCO). There, we will document ecosystem importance of Malpelo Island as part of the migration corridor in the Pacific. Along with Fundación Malpelo and the Colombian influencer and freediver Sofía Gómez, we are going to document and denounce the threats that threaten our sea, especially plastic pollution. We will support the approval of the Global Plastics Treaty and highlight the conservation value of the Colombian Pacific and its seamounts and the need to increase marine protected areas in this country.
© Diana Rey Melo / Greenpeace
Reliable
Rainbow Warrior Climate Justice Ship Tour - Open Boat in Malaysia. © TAN CHIA WAY / Greenpeace
Greenpeace volunteers share their knowledge of the Rainbow Warrior with visitors on the ship’s helideck in Port Klang, Selangor, Malaysia.
© TAN CHIA WAY / Greenpeace
Values people
Vote4Climate Action in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. © Norman Hiu / Greenpeace
Activists and volunteers with Greenpeace Malaysia staged an action at Malaysia’s historic Dataran Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur by unfolding a 30m x 30m banner that read ‘#UndiIklim’ (vote for climate in Bahasa Malaysia) and ‘#Vote4Climate’ as a plea for voters and political parties during the 15th General Election. The action calls for incoming electoral candidates to commit to stronger climate policies by including a Climate Change Act, Transboundary Haze Pollution or Clean Air Act, and the revising of the 1974 Environmental Quality Act in their election manifestos.
© Norman Hiu / Greenpeace
Builds camaraderie
Adheres to the Volunteer Constitution
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