Grand River Hospital (Freeport) volunteer - Shaylan

Shaylan Govind

Shaylan Govind started volunteering at Grand River Hospital’s Freeport site to learn about working in a health care environment, and to give back in a way that reflected his skills and experience.  He learned about the opportunity in an advertisement in the campus paper, and felt that volunteering with Freeport would be especially meaningful as he […]

KDCHC volunteer, Jessica

Jessica Chen

Volunteering can have a ripple effect. One person’s contribution can change a community, and it’s clear in talking with Jessica Chen about her volunteer role with the Kitchener Downtown Community Health Centre (KDCHC) that her volunteering impacts quite a few people – while strengthening her skills as an individual. “As a newcomer, volunteering has given […]

KWAG volunteer - Laman

Laman Muradova

Laman Muradova has a clear passion for volunteering; when asked what volunteer roles she has taken up with the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery (KW|AG) since starting to volunteer there in August 2012, both she and her volunteer coordinator, Milena McCormack respond immediately (and in unison) with “everything!”  An artist by trade, Laman started volunteering with […]

KPL - Veronica

Veronica Naas

As a busy young professional, Veronica Naas finds that volunteering helps her to “put the brakes on everything else.”  She has volunteered at the Kitchener Public Library’s Kidspark event, but her main volunteering focus over the past 12 years has been the Reading Buddies program at the Forest Heights Community Library. It all began after […]

KWHS - volunteers Sydney and Chris

Chris and Sydney Mann

Sydney Mann (left) started volunteering at age 11. After a friend at school talked about the Kitchener Waterloo Humane Society, she knew that volunteering was something that she wanted to do, and her friend had pointed the way to a place that she felt passionately about. Sydney talked it over with her mom, Chris (right), and […]

Our Place - Reem

Reem Zaghloul

One of the aspects that Reem Zaghloul enjoys the most about volunteering with Our Place Family Resource and Early Years Centre is the opportunity to share information about the organization and its programming with other young mothers in her community.  “A lot of mothers want to have a chance to be social, and learn new […]

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.