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Calvary SA - Happy Volunteers Week 2023
Sharon Kendall, Regional Chief Executive Officer SA & NT <sharon.kendall@calvarycare.org.au> Unsubscribe
Mon, May 15, 7:30 AM (2 days ago)
We celebrate Volunteer Week this year by reflecting on the theme of change and the way in which volunteers change our world for the better.
The American Anthropologist, Margaret Mead, once observed: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
With so much information circling through mainstream and social media, we can sometimes feel overwhelmed by the prevalence of bad news, bad behaviours and looming disasters. And yet, across Australia, every single day, some 6 million people volunteer their services to make life a little bit better for someone else. And that number only refers to those officially registered as volunteers with organisations. It doesn’t include those who regularly engage in acts of kindness and assistance to their families, friends, neighbours, colleagues and the strangers that they bump into every day.
There is an enormous force for good in our world, carried in the hearts of so many who know, intuitively and reflexively, that happiness lies not in grasping something for themselves but in offering something of themselves to others.
Calvary’s volunteers usually insist that they receive more than they give from their volunteering commitment, but they provide hope to us all and remind us that goodness prevails in a world in which bad news often seems to dominate the headlines.
So, a big thank you to all our volunteers, whose gratuitous kindness is a constant inspiration and a reminder of the remarkable things that can be achieved by the ‘thoughtful and the committed’.
Happy Volunteer Week to you all.
Sharon Kendall
Regional Chief Executive Officer
SA & NT
Sharon Kendall, Regional Chief Executive Officer SA & NT <sharon.kendall@calvarycare.org.au> Unsubscribe
Mon, May 15, 7:30 AM (2 days ago)
We celebrate Volunteer Week this year by reflecting on the theme of change and the way in which volunteers change our world for the better.
The American Anthropologist, Margaret Mead, once observed: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
With so much information circling through mainstream and social media, we can sometimes feel overwhelmed by the prevalence of bad news, bad behaviours and looming disasters. And yet, across Australia, every single day, some 6 million people volunteer their services to make life a little bit better for someone else. And that number only refers to those officially registered as volunteers with organisations. It doesn’t include those who regularly engage in acts of kindness and assistance to their families, friends, neighbours, colleagues and the strangers that they bump into every day.
There is an enormous force for good in our world, carried in the hearts of so many who know, intuitively and reflexively, that happiness lies not in grasping something for themselves but in offering something of themselves to others.
Calvary’s volunteers usually insist that they receive more than they give from their volunteering commitment, but they provide hope to us all and remind us that goodness prevails in a world in which bad news often seems to dominate the headlines.
So, a big thank you to all our volunteers, whose gratuitous kindness is a constant inspiration and a reminder of the remarkable things that can be achieved by the ‘thoughtful and the committed’.
Happy Volunteer Week to you all.
Sharon Kendall
Regional Chief Executive Officer
SA & NT
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