Sighted volunteers’ motivations to assist people with visual impairments in freetime sport activities

Since the changing of the political and economic system in 1989-1990 in Hungary, volunteer movements have appeared all over the country. Volunteers of different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds are engaged in a wide range of activities, wishing to add values to the lives of others in need, hoping to improve their micro or/and macro environment. Volunteering has also appeared in the field of sport, and the work of a large number of nongovernmental sport organisations is strongly dependent on volunteers’ participation. In the socialist era disability sports were neglected by the state. The new democratic state has been paying increasing attention to disability sports and volunteers have been a great asset in improving the accessibility of spare time sport activities. The present empirical research investigates which factors motivate sighted volunteers to join Hungarian Sports and Leisure Association for the Visually Impaired (Látássérültek Szabadidős Sportegyesülete, LÁSS). Results confirm that joining LÁSS was in few cases (N=3) attributed to having parental or other family relations with blind or partially sighted people. Respondents unanimously admit to have a wish to share the joy of physical activity with their visually impaired peers.

La molécula conductual de relaciones públicas en la comunicación gubernamental con los inmigrantes en España

La afluencia creciente de inmigrantes en España conforma una nueva estratificación social. De todos los actores que intervienen en este proceso migratorio y la integración de los acogidos, el Gobierno Central español tiene una responsabilidad legal, pero también comunicacional. De ahí que se plantee el análisis de cómo se diseña y se elaboran tres herramientas oficiales del Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración desde la disciplina de las relaciones públicas y, en concreto, desde las relaciones con los inmigrantes considerados públicos minoritarios. La conducta de comunicación del Gobierno que este trabajo evidencia deja entrever una estrategia de relaciones públicas poco definida.