Volunteers attend conference
WICKLOW was well represented at the annual Foróige National Volunteer Conference in Sligo recently.
James Tighe, Irene Lacey, Dave O’Reilly, Geraldine Kennedy, Jacinta Hodgins and Conor Hodgins joined hundreds of volunteers who travelled from all over Ireland to attend the conference involving keynote speaker John Davis, Professor of Childhood Inclusion at University of Edinburgh, to participate in workshops and exchange ideas on best practice in youth work.
Sean Campbell, CEO of Foróige said ‘ the work of youth work volunteers is crucial to the well-being of young people, what this survey shows is that it is also of enormous benefit to the adult volunteers’.
‘Volunteers feed back to us all the time that helping young people, getting involved in their local community and meeting other volunteers is one of the most positive forces for good in their lives. That amazing feeling you get from giving of your time and energy to something so important really can’t be replicated in any other way,’ he added.