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Stories about the help given by the American Red Cross.
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Feb
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At the 2009 Paint-A-Thon, groups from local companies, including Motorola and PepsiAmericas, put down their work and picked up paint brushes to make a difference in the lives of area seniors.
In many ways, a Paint-A-Thon is like an old-fashioned barn raising. The spirit is still the same…neighbors helping neighbors, people working together to enhance their community. Sponsored by Catholic Charities, Valspar Coatings and the Volunteer Center of Northwest Suburban Chicago, it’s an annual event that brings together local organizations, corporate sponsors and volunteers for a community-wide effort to paint the homes of seniors and disabled people with limited financial resources. For this year’s Paint-A-Thon Valspar provided all of the paint,while over 550 volunteers also supplied their own brushes, scrapers, putty knives, rags and ladders, not to mention plenty of hard work. All of these efforts came together to make a big difference throughout ten townships in the northwest suburbs: Barrington, Elk Grove, Hanover, Maine, New Trier, Niles, Northfield, Palatine, Schaumburg and Wheeling.
While this year’s Paint-A-Thon has come and gone, there are still plenty of volunteer opportunities available in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. Visit http://www.volunteerinfo.net for information on volunteer programs and openings at local organizations.
Through in-kind donations and considerable volunteer support, the costs and administrative needs are kept to a minimum. The end result is that the lives of the homeowners, volunteers and supporters have been enriched by this wonderful act of generosity, and the community’s appearance is improved.
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Feb
28
Charley visited Marcel Pool, a VSO volunteer physiotherapist working in Goroka in the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea, as part of his journey from Sydney to Tokyo for the second series of By Any Means, broadcast on BBC2.
Charley accompanied Marcel on a field trip to the Mount Sion community based rehabilitation unit to see his work training and supporting Papua New Guinean community volunteers. Marcel is helping these volunteers understand the issues of disability and training them in basic rehabilitation skills.
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Feb
28
Coach Brian put together this video of his time in South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia from July-November 2010. Check it out!
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Feb
28
The Plymouth Archaeological Rediscovery Project is leading a community dig at the Second Meetinghouse site on Chestnut Street.
The dig will take place from Oct. 6-18, and volunteers will work in three hours shifts. People will be assigned different jobs including diggers, note-takers, photographers, washers and cataloguers. The site will be arranged in a grid, and volunteers will dig test pits along the grid. Then the pits will be carefully excavated.
Archeological site are such a limited resource, Chartier said. We want to do it right and for the right reasons.
Chartier told the interested volunteers they may not be finding entire artifacts perhaps just a piece of a pot, a few nails, the lead from a window, etc. However, he said a careful process and a trained eye will be able to spot these fragments.
When youre actually out digging, youll be able to see these things jump out at you, the stains and so forth, Chartier said. When you dig, if you see any kind of funny shaped rock, call us over.
More At:
http://eduxbury.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3753:community-to-pitch-in-for-dig&catid=67:duxburys-big-dig&Itemid=96
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Feb
27
I really need volunteer hours by Friday, so can somebody suggest any good options?
Go to the website for your local United Way; many of them have databases with volunteer opportunities
Feb
27
Check out your local Humaine Society, or Animal Shelter.
Look into your local Salvation Army.
You can also check into halfway homes for battered women and children.
There might also be a lot of childrens homes that could use volunteers.
Going to Nursing homes just to visit the residents is also a good idea. Sometimes, all they need is someone to sit with and watch TV.
I would suggest maybe looking into a volunteer headquaters in your town.
Feb
27
I need names of Organizations for the following:
I would like to volunteer in the Los Angeles/California area for an organization that assist with some of the needs of disadvantage children. I am mainly looking to work with an organization that need me to physically do something in the encouragement/assistance of children in the following:
Studies, Sports, Basic necessities of life, or other topics along those lines.
I am not looking to work with children who are ill, I do not feel emotionally prepared for that type of work at this time.
If you know of an Organization(s) please answer.
Thank you,
Check with your local United Way, currently they have several campaigns going on working with local non-profits in the area of early childhood education that includes many of the topics you are interested in. At their website you can locate the non-profits, find their volunteer opportunities and contact them directly.
http://www.unitedwayla.org/Pages/default.aspx
Feb
27
am 17 but i want to be a chemical engineer and am looking to do a voluntary work anywhere, but there are moe opportunities for medical relate things and hardly CHEMICAL engineering related ones so please help because i want to do it for this summer so that my personal statement would look good
Cleaning up the gulf shoreline.
You’ll get to see firsthand why it is important to be very careful when you are drilling for oil as a chemical engineer.
Feb
26
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