Presidential Volunteer Service Award - FAQ
How does President’s Service award work?
MKA as a leading Muslim Youth organization in the country, we are certifying organization for the President's Volunteer Service Award, we nominate potential recipients and distribute the Award to those who meet or exceed the Award criteria. This is a great opportunity for us to join the President of the United States in recognizing the volunteers who consistently take the time to make a difference in the lives of others. We honor our Khuddam and Atfal who are answering the call with this Award.
To qualify for the President's Volunteer Service Award, volunteers simply submit a record of their service hours to the Waqar E Amal department via www.PresidentialServiceAwards.gov website, and we will verify the service and deliver the Award. Volunteer service hours are not limited to those performed on behalf of Majlis Khuddam ul Ahmadiyya. In fact, service hours can be accumulated through work on a variety of projects throughout the year. The only requirement is that the necessary hours be completed within 12 months; recipients can qualify for a new Award each year. Our Khuddam should strive to earn the President's Volunteer Service Award every year.
To learn more and find out how to qualify for the Award, I am requesting all Khuddam to visit the following website and get registered: www.PresidentialServiceAwards.gov
The record of service key to be used by our volunteers is BZQ-34223.
To be eligible to receive the President's Volunteer Service Award, applicants' service hours must be confirmed by the Waqar E Amal Deparment. There are three levels of the Award varying by hours of service completed within a 12-month period:
How to Register for Presidential Volunteer Service Award?
- Go to this site: http://www.presidentialserviceawards.gov/index.cfm
- Click on Track Your Hours
- Follow the below steps to create your Record of Service
- Once you are logged in click on Profile
- Enter BZQ-34223 as Your Record of Service Key
- Scroll down and Click on Update Profile
- Click on My Service
- Click on Create New Record
How to record Hours for 2010?
- Click on Create New Record
- Put Waqar e Amal as Service Activity
- Use MKA as Organization Name
- Select Communities from the drop down menu as Specific Area of Service
- Make sure that you click on Recurring Activity
- Use the Date Picker to pick 01/01/2010 as the Start Date - This is the first Friday of 2010
- Under hours of service put in the average number of hours per month that you spent in service of Jamaat or other community related activities in 2010
- In Activity Recurrence Click on Monthly and then day 10 of every 1 month
- In the Range of Recurrence Click on End after 12 occurences
- Fill in the rest of the form. Put in as much details as possible in the Description of service.
- Click on Add this activity.
Congratulations – you have just created your record of service for last year and will be rewarded accordingly!
Which hours should be recorded as Volunteer hours for the Presidential award?
The simple answer is every hour spent on community volunteer services should be reported as volunteer hours for the Presidential Service award. This also includes Jammat meetings and Khuddam meetings hours besides participating in waqar-e-amal activities in the mosque or participating in adopt a highway, neighborhood park beautification or facilitating blood drive, soap kitchen, AMSA (Ahmadi Muslim Student Association) activities and also reaching out with Peace flyers advocating Peace in the society should also be counted. Last but not the least don’t forget to include individual/personal volunteer hours like helping needy neighbors with snow removal or helping them with groceries or even any community service accomplished in school/college.
How Qaideen should report hours spent on volunteer services for a Majlis?
Qaideen are expected to report volunteer hours for the whole Majlis on their monthly report regardless if some khuddam has already submit their hours individually for the President’s Service Award.
Each Majlis will be recognized as a Group of volunteers and Waqar-e-amal department will nominate the Group for Presidential service award if they meet or exceed award criteria.
Qaideen can benefit from the above FAQ (Which hours should be recorded as Volunteer hours for the Presidential award) while accumulating hours for the Majlis activities in a month.
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