Umecit – University in Panama

UMECIT Volunteering 2025

In collaboration with strategic allies

Objective of volunteering

University volunteering responds to the need to articulate social commitment with academic training. UMECIT recognizes this as a formative space, enabling the development of critical and committed citizens. It addresses realities such as at-risk children, youth mental health, and a lack of inclusive spaces.

Main axes of volunteering

Axis 1: Volunteering with a purpose

Approach: Solidarity, health, and support for vulnerable children and families.

Objective: Promote human commitment through solidarity actions that provide support, resources, and hope to those facing serious illnesses.

Actions

  • Hospital visits
  • Collection and delivery of solidarity supplies (clothing, food, toys, and financial donations)
  • Recreational and leisure activities in shelters, foundations, or health centers.

Axis 2: Volunteering with mind and emotion

Approach: Emotional well-being, suicide prevention, and mental health in young people.

Objective: Promote a culture of emotional self-care, active listening, and psychosocial support from the university community to other populations.

Actions

  • Mental health workshops in schools and universities
  • Workshops on emotional management and suicide prevention
  • Dialogue circles and psychosocial support.
  • Support for walks for foundations working on this issue, among other actions

Axis 3: Volunteering with movement and future

Approach: Education, sport and inclusion.

Objective: Promote values, life skills, and inclusive spaces through innovative methodologies based on football and community participation.

Actions

  • Sports clinics and tournaments with a values-based focus
  • Educational and recreational workshops for children and young people
  • Support for community schools of leadership and coexistence.

Axis 4: Volunteering with a green conscience

Approach: Environmental education, climate action, and responsible consumption.

Objective: Promote ecological awareness and environmental commitment among the university community through voluntary actions that foster sustainability, the protection of natural resources, and the development of healthier environments.

Actions

  • Cleanup and waste collection days on beaches, rivers, and community spaces.
  • Educational campaigns on recycling, reducing plastic use, and saving water and energy.
  • Reforestation and tree adoption activities in vulnerable communities.
  • Workshops on climate change, the circular economy, and urban gardens.
  • Workshops on climate change, the circular economy, and urban gardens.

How can you volunteer?

  • Be active students and graduates of UMECIT

  • Show commitment, empathy and responsibility

  • Have time available

  • Ability to work in a team

  • Certification of social hours

  • Certification of participation

  • Leadership and soft skills development

  • Sense of belonging
  • Experience for professional life

  • Recognition on social networks
  • Be part of the UMECIT community, as an active student, graduate, teacher, or administrator.
  • Fill out the official registration form and select one of the action axes.
  • Attend the mandatory induction session and complete the initial training corresponding to your area of expertise.
  • Demonstrate solidarity, commitment, environmental and social responsibility.
  • Sign the volunteer's ethical commitment letter.
  • Not have any current academic or disciplinary sanctions.
  • Be part of the UMECIT community, as an active student, graduate, teacher, or administrator.
  • Fill out the official registration form and select one of the action axes.
  • Attend the mandatory induction session and complete the initial training corresponding to your area of expertise.
  • Demonstrate solidarity, commitment, environmental and social responsibility.
  • Sign the volunteer's ethical commitment letter.
  • Not have any current academic or disciplinary sanctions.
  • Assistance and commitment
  • Community impact
  • Feedback
  • Final volunteer report

Join the Volunteer Program and be part of this social transformation initiative, in which UMECIT reaffirms its commitment to comprehensive education and university social responsibility.