DEPAUL IRELAND VOLUNTEER NEWS DEPAUL IRELAND’S VOLUNTEER NEWSLETTER – WINTER 2009 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……......
WELCOME Welcome to the Winter edition of the Depaul Ireland’s Volunteer News. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the commitment you have given to us as volunteers. It is just amazing for us to see the work that is going on in the projects that is initiated by volunteers. You play a huge part in bringing respect and dignity into the lives of our residents, a quality that can never be underestimated. Our plan is to produce a quarterly newsletter keeping you all up do date on all volunteering developments within Depaul Ireland. Because it is your newsletter, we hope that you as a volunteer, will contribute to it. So if there is anything that you would like to share with us in relation to your experience here or any other news story or event that you think people should know about, just contact us and we will endeavor to include it. We are aware that you don’t often get a chance to meet many of the other volunteers and may at times feel that you are the only volunteer but in fact you are part of a team of 156
DEPAUL IRELAND CELEBRATES UN INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY 2009 United Nations International Volunteer Day (IVD) takes place each year on December 5th and marks the valuable contribution that volunteers make to volunteer involving organisations. To celebrate the IVD 2009 Depaul Ireland took part in two events. The first event took place in the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin in association with Dublin City South Volunteer Centre. We welcomed our volunteers to come and join us for mulled wine as we thanked them for their valuable contribution during the year. The second event saw our European Voluntary Service (EVS) volunteers from Dublin and Belfast come together in Belfast on IVD and volunteer their time to the Participate event which was organised as part of Northern Ireland’s Homeless Awareness Week. A variety of workshops including tshirt printing, model making, and face painting were facilitated by our EVS volunteers during the day. Later that night a thank you meal was organised for the volunteers. Many thanks to all involved and thanks to Jenny Groves for facilitating our participation in the day.
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DEPAUL IRELAND VOLUNTEER NEWS DUBLIN VOLUNTEERS TURN GREEN AND GET ON THEIR BIKES! As part of a drive by our EVS volunteers to become more environmentally friendly a number of bicycles were acquired for our EVS Volunteers. While helping to keep our costs down, other benefits include a reduced carbon footprint for our EVS Project. Over the coming months they will also be looking an innovative ways to reduce their gas and electricity usage.
VOLUNTEERS LEND A HELPING HAND TO HOME FOR CHRISTMAS As we go to print a group of 20 volunteers are involved in the facilitation of Depaul Ireland’s creative presence at the 12 Days of Christmas Market in the IFSC, Dublin 1. Kids of all ages are being invited along to get creative and to paint their very own Depaul Angel.
VOLUNTEER TRAINING PROGRAMME 2010 The calendar for 2010 will be published in the New Year. All volunteers are encouraged to access this training programme. To book yourself on to any of the training modules call Stuart on (01) 633 9226.
LIFE’S NO PICNIC ON THE STREETS A GREAT SUCCESS AT ELECTRIC PICNIC For the second year in a row Depaul Ireland volunteers were involved in the Life’s No Picnic on the Streets exhibition which took place at the Electric Picnic Music & Arts Festival in early September. Volunteers were on hand to take the many visitors to the Depaul Ireland tent around the exhibition displaying art created by the residents of Sundial House and Tus Nua Apartments. Many thanks to all the team who participated and the made the event a great success. The event was also highlighted on RTÉ Television on the Nationwide Programme.
EUROPEAN YEAR OF VOLUNTEERING 2011 After much lobbying from national and European volunteer involving organisations we are delighted to announce that 2011 has been designated European Year of Volunteering. There will be a number of events and initiatives launched during the year both here in Ireland and overseas. In future editions of Volunteer News we will have more information on planned events. In 2012 Ireland will host the IAVE (International Association of Voluntary Effort) World Conference.
HAVE WE GOT YOUR DETAILS CORRECT? The Volunteer Programme is in the process of updating all our records and transferring to a web based utility called Volgisitcs, which will make managing your volunteer experience a lot easier.
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WE WOULD LIKE TO WISH ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS AND STUDENT PLACEMENTS A HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.