Giving thanks to our volunteers
ThisSaturday, December 5 is International Volunteer Day. This year’s theme is, ‘together we can through volunteering’.
The unprecedented bushfires at the beginning of the year and now the pandemic has shown us the importance of volunteering and through it, what we can achieve.
We feel it is a well-chosen theme that highlights the importance of critical volunteer services, such as meal delivery and non-medical transport, and the unsung heroes who put themselves out there to assist, even during unknown and sometimes scary times of what has transpired this year.
These services can’t be stopped during a pandemic and have provided community members with either essential meals, or essential medical appointments.
Importantly it has highlighted our community resilience in times of need and our ability to lend a helping hand to those who need it most.
Essential services like these and others could not have happened without amazing volunteers and the community organisations who support them.
As part of International Volunteer Day we would like to say thank you to all those amazing volunteers who continue to make our community a better place to live. This Friday we will be having an online morning tea to say a virtual thanks to these volunteers, so please head to our website or call the office on 5382 5607 to get details.
We are extremely thankful for such great volunteers, before, during and as we navigate our way into the future and all that it holds.
Volunteers truly are the backbone and very fabric of our community and contribute so much to the social cohesion that at times, we can take for granted.
If you volunteer, we say thank you. Centre for Participation and many other organisations and community groups like ours could not operate without you.
Take a moment this International Volunteer Day to reflect on this and know that every act of volunteering is making a better community for not only us, but future generations to live in.
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