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 In celebration of
National Family Volunteer Day 2004, VolunteerLEON Youth Corps, as well
as their parents and siblings worked with local AmeriCorps members to
construct a ramp for a person in our community, enabling that person to
continue living independently. The ramp constructed on National
Family Volunteer Day was the last in a series of 6 ramps built for area
residents with disabilities during Volunteer Florida, Albertson's,
AmeriCorps, Ability1st, Volunteer Leon and Department of Environmental
Protection's initiative called 6 Days 6 Ramps. Volunteer duties
included safety coordination, framing, carpentry, decking, scrap
retrieval, and food service. Read about 6 Days 6 Ramps online at http://6days6ramps.volunteerflorida.org/.
National Family Volunteer Day
is held annually on the Saturday before Thanksgiving and kicks off
National Family Week. Volunteering as a family provides quality time,
strengthens communication, and provides opportunities for family members
to be role models, while making significant contributions to their
communities. Family volunteering creates life-long volunteers and a
legacy of volunteering for the next generation to carry into the future!
Click
here for more information on National Family Volunteer Day. Charity
Channel.com recently featured an article by local consultant Jill Canono
Ph.D. on the same topic entitled "Capitalizing
On the Holiday Spirit to Recruit and Retain Family Volunteers."
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