Sharing my experiences of volunteering for the community

1. Making a difference around you!
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2. Volunteering is fun and a great learning
experience…
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3. Some quotes on volunteering
• You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you
give…
» Winston Churchill
• Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in
elections once in few years, but when you volunteer, you vote
every day about the kind of community you want to live in
» Anon
• Volunteering can be an exciting, growing, enjoyable
experience. It is truly gratifying to serve a cause, practice one's
ideals, work with people, solve problems, see benefits, and
know one had a hand in them…
» Harriet Nayler
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4. Some benefits of volunteering
• Make new friends
• Explore career and personal interests
• Earn great recommendations for future employment or
college applications
• Develop marketable job skills
• Build your resume
• Enrich your education
• Uncover hidden skills and talents
• Increase your self-confidence
• Have fun
• Make a difference
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5. My volunteering stints
Mumbai Mobile Crèches
Singapore Cares (SG Cares)
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6. Mumbai Mobile Crèches
• NGO supporting health, education, safety of children of
construction labourers
• Reaches out to more than 5000 children in Mumbai
• Runs Day Care centres in 26 construction sites in Mumbai
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7. Glimpses
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8. www.mumbaimobilecreches.org
Visit them on facebook
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9. SG Cares
• Promoted by NVPC (National Volunteer & Philantrophy
Centre) of Singapore
• A national body that promotes and develops volunteerism
and philanthropy across all sectors, functioning as a first-stop
centre, catalyst and networking agency
• Aims to foster the spirit of ‘giving’ in Singapore
• Initiated a programme called Singapore Kindness movement
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10. SG Cares creates the platform for
volunteers
• Choice of flexible, episodic and team-based
volunteer projects or activities
• Guidance and mentoring by experienced volunteer
leaders
• Up-to-date information from the online portal
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11. Helping at a stall to sell hand made products by
inmates of Friends of Disabled Society, Singapore
With other volunteers of SG Cares (7th Feb. 2010)
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12. “I cannot do all the good that the world
needs. But the world needs all the good
that I can do…”
by Jana Stanfield
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