The following is a guest post from Volunteer Edmonton's Evelyn Pham on National Volunteer Week and the contributions of Edmonton's Volunteers - thanks Evelyn!
From April 18 to 24, National Volunteer Week celebrates and recognizes the amazing contributions of volunteers across Canada.
In recent years, it’s become evident that volunteers are critical to sustaining our quality of life. Nonprofit and voluntary organizations are continually struggling to do more with fewer dollars. Programs and services that exist in every facet of community—arts, culture, health, education, recreation and sports, religion, environment and more—would be seriously at risk, if not for the support of a volunteer workforce.
The dedication and enthusiasm of hundreds of people who help out in our community ensures that organizations can continue to provide the same level of services and programs that we all rely on.
These people are building homes, packing food and clothing for at-risk families; sitting on organizational boards and making decisions that have a lasting impact on our community; fundraising for cancer awareness and much more. Volunteers express human values of community and caring, give of themselves, and find solutions to shared community challenges.
They are our neighbours, parents, students, children and coworkers.
They are people just like you and me.
This week is not only our time to say thank you to the volunteers in our lives, but to reflect on the ways we can all give back to the 4,000 nonprofit organizations that exist in Edmonton, and how volunteering helps build better, stronger, healthier and more vibrant communities for us all.
-- Evelyn Pham, Volunteer Edmonton
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