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Pitt Tilt HERALD April I Helping others is mainstay of society Herald An article published in an American news magazine not described how were using volunteer work as a foot in the door to the employ market It said that the feminist movement had crated this trend by urging real In other words paid The of volunteers In a large institution v as quoted as saying thai women were doing unpaid work to Improve their skills and hence their career prospects Also quoted former volunteer who had moved on to a full time position I guess finally I was interested in being paid for a Job Money is the way society shows that it values what you are doing If that Is so it makes a disturbing commentary on current values For surely much of the work that Is done for money is worthless to anyone but those who profit by it Voluntary service on the other hand liso valuable to its beneficiaries as be literally priceless Who could ever count what it worth to a crippled child to be taught to swim or to elderly shut in to have someone do the hopping and drop In for a chat once or twice a week The attitude that only paid work matters Is lamentably common You will look In vain in books on economics for so much as a mention of the contribution which voluntary service makes to Iht national In fact voluntary estimated per cent of Canada gross national product One In every seven adult Canadians is engaged some sort of volunteer Organized wo In Canada a mounts to some million man hours a year One of the mainstays society after all is common understanding that the stronger must share their VOLUNTEER WEEK April it did not come before purely selfish pursuits The religions which did so much to establish that social order in the first place t jvc always stressed that the individual has an obligation to his human beings The concept of mutual is implicit in every major belief John Rusk in made an acute observation of scriptural teachings when he wrote It Is written not blessed is he hat the poor but blessed Is he thai considered the poor A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money aire dominated the social policies of western countries in the and early fro the centuries Governments shied away from dealing with social problems It wot left mainly to Individuals church end other charitable organ nations to attend to the public welfare Though It was a full time Job for many of them the people who worked in chart able Institutions were volunteers The present century brought the birth of universal lax programs In health welfare and education The political thrust for more from early socialists who believed lhat undeserved privileges were perpetuated by They regard ed the old system of charily as not much more than self ing paternalism scatter of crumbs from rich men tables They insisted that the needs of society could never be met by private benevolence Today even right wing political parties agree that governments should provide some basic measure of social service and security for people who really need it At the same time even left wing parties tin the western world at least agree that governments can not do all that has to be done Public services lack the human touch that people In distress need so badly can cither supplement the services provided or lake care of special problems which government programs tend overlook Alter many years of govern ments taking on more and more of the social bill ties once borne by private the pendulum is now swinging back to the voluntary sector Governments every where are deeply In debt and they are finding that there is a limit to how heavily they can tax people without damaging the economy and their own political appeal As a result funded tn one imposed the United Stole- President Ronald is lriug rekindle what hi spirit of Tin truth is let take jway of wc once ion ours to do tan out of I of Whin volunteers an the reasons why hey volunt usually satisfaction they derm from A mil ion came from in who leaihc to blind children Don me wront I don teach these classes as charity ill does and d i admit 11 1 in voluntary r need- id for volunteers is to lot ll but i n trouble work amont the poor in India not in the ocean I think the put the idea of oceans would be less because e whin said lha missing drop thai what Reprinted from the jri is Just a drop in March Hut if that drop was Letter ilopnv lildllnsjAi ally a wilchword I i do you ju do nil you cm it cai The Report of tilt Notion Advisory Council on Volunteer to Government of of Calcutta lardid III Nobel of for her GEORGETOWN SCOTTISH BAKERY We feature a full Una of Scottish Bakery products Including SI Square Sausage Black Pudding Haggis etc Scottish Rolls and Bread Potato Scones Assorted Cakos and Pa slues etc Assorted Meat Bridies Corn sh Pasties Ayrshire Bacon Bellas Ham Beet Pork Sausarje Links 136B GUELPH STREET GEORGETOWN 8770216 Volunteer wt0 will lonfih Battlefield scene shocks Henry Mans suggestions formed Red Cross Henry founder of the world Cross move- mint in the 19th was the firs Red Cross volunteer In 1B39 the young Swiss businessman was horrified when he came upon wounded dead and dying lying unattended on a battlefield In northern Italy quickly organized a corps Of volunteers provide first aid to the wounded He wrote a book describing his experiences and recommend the formation of volun relief societies to care for the wounded during wars and international treaties to ensure their humane treatment share heir good fortune with about It of people Call your Red Cross today lo His Inspired the people of Europe and in the Red Cross movement with the emblem of a red cross on a white field was born In Canada the appearance of the first Red Cross volun and flags occurred in 1885 when mlhtia forces from Eastern Canada were sent lo quell uprisings of Metis and Indian settlers on the prairies In Surgeon Major George Sterling organ lied the first overseas branch of the British Red Cross Society In Toronto Red Cross volunteers raised money for the relief of combatants on both sides In the Spanish American War and then along with volunteers from new branches in Montreal Quebec Winnipeg Vancouver and sent food and funds to help the wounded in the Boer War in South Africa During the First World War thousands of volunteers of what hod become the Canadi an Red Cross Society more than million in relief established hospitals in England and ranee and among other things set up comfort and care centres for Canadian service men During the Second World War tana Red Cross volunteers sent million prisoner of war packages overseas goods and money amount to more than million Today Red Cross volunteers across Canada give more than one million units of blood every year Volunteers work at blood donor clinics they help deve lop and teach lint aid water and boat safety and health programmes Volunteers veterans and senior loan out crutches and wheel chairs and provide emergency disaster services Volun teers money for overseas disaster relief and programmes and trace and reunite separated family members It is estimated that volunteers perform per cent Red Cross work In The story Red Cross in Canada and around lite world I the story of volunteers This week get involved Week was officially proclaimed In Hilton Hills town council In doing so acknowledged formally designating April Volunteer Meek will enable local social and health promote volant and encourage Involved members of the community to put their spore ur use I- or more Information Ihe North Agency it Tip the hat The Hills recreation department thanks many volunteers who assisted ill programs and In doing so ensured success Special thanks go to Jilllans helper coach Jennifer Melville outdoor cross country ski workshop host Rob Taylor Acton pool staff Carolyn Sewcll Fountain Jack Sean McVeigh Metafile Maria and Laura and Shelly Mason Shannon Johnson Paul and Doubt Adrian Alder and Denise and Georgetown pool staff 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