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Gift of Giving: Volunteer Guide

Nov 10, 2021

There are several ways you can give to others this holiday season. The following organizations are seeking donations, volunteers, and other support.

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Goats and Soda
From left: Home cooked food at Srabasti Ghosh's home, ready for delivery. A volunteer delivers food to COVID-19 patients outside their home. Ghosh (right) with a friend who has joined to help.

How Two Dancers, A Mom And A Life Coach Help Out In India's COVID Crisis

Jun 03, 2021
Amid India's COVID surge, regular folks are channeling their time, talents and resources to support their neighbors — and strangers, too. Public health experts say it's making a real impact.
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World
The entrance to Nation Station, a disaster relief community center in Beirut that operates out of an abandoned gas station. Nation Station serves the residents of Geitawi, a neighborhood badly damaged in the Aug. 4 blast.

After Beirut Blast, Lebanese Volunteers Deliver Relief The State Fails To Provide

Aug 27, 2020
"Lebanese people have to help each other in the absence of a functioning state," says Hussein Kazoun of Nation Station, a volunteer disaster relief effort operating out of an abandoned gas station.
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Shots - Health News

Staying Strong During Lockdown Means Reaching Out — And Working Your Mind, Too

Aug 18, 2020
Keeping your brain busy but relaxed by volunteering, gardening, or learning a new language, for example, can help you cope with hard times now and in the future, psychiatrists say.
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National
Central American migrants, hoping to ask for asylum in the United States, are being relocated to a temporary shelter in Tijuana, Mexico. Volunteers from San Diego visit the migrants weekly to help with health care.

For Asylum-Seekers Waiting In Mexico, Volunteers Offer Medical Help

Dec 22, 2018
Thousands of asylum-seekers in Mexico are waiting their turn to ask U.S. border officials for asylum. A volunteer group of doctors and nurses travel to Tijuana weekly to attend to their health needs.
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Advice To Parachuting Docs: Think Before You Jump Into Poor Countries

Apr 04, 2018
There can be unintended consequences when doctors and med students volunteer to improve local health care. A new position paper offers up ethical guidance.
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The Two-Way
President Trump spent the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday at his Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Previous presidents have marked the holiday doing volunteer work.

Trump Advocates For Public Service On MLK Day, But Spends It At Mar-A-Lago Resort

Jan 15, 2018
Past presidents have honored the civil rights leader's birthday by helping out at libraries or homeless shelters but Preisdent Trump chose to spend the day at his Florida resort.
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The Salt
Robin Hood Restaurant has become quite the hotspot — the restaurant has poached staff from luxury hotels and celebrity chefs are lining up to work there once a week.

Spain's 'Robin Hood Restaurant' Charges The Rich And Feeds The Poor

Jan 24, 2017
As the country reels from its financial crisis, a new restaurant, run by a Catholic priest, lets paying daytime customers foot the dinner bill for homeless people to dine with dignity — and style.
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Gena Barnabee, bottom left corner, worked with a team from Health Alliance International to evaluate a new mobile health program.

Volunteer Recap: Connecting Moms To Midwives In Timor-Leste

Mar 06, 2015
A global health student from Seattle went to the tiny country to study maternal health. But she also learned how to be more friendly to her neighbors.
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Peace Corps Volunteers

Mar 05, 2010
We talk with one recent college graduate bound for Central America and a middle-aged couple moving to the Ukraine to develop business. We explore what volunteers will be doing, what they need to do to prepare, why they've decided to join the Peace Corps, what they expect to achieve and how they expect their Peace Corps experience will affect the rest of their lives.
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Charitable Works

Jan 24, 2006
Monsignor Patrick Leary, Executive Director of Catholic Charities...on the needs of the less-fortunate amongst us
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