volunteers

Photo: Laura Monje Gomez, Daniela Atanasova, Samantha Agius, Cinthia Zanotto, Savini Jayawardana
Our Volunteers wrote down a few reasons they volunteer at Connecting Up Inc.
 
Laura Monje Gomez
As a new migrant in Adelaide, I started volunteering in Connecting Up with the intention to make local connections and gain work experience in the country. 
 

Photo: Connecting Up Volunteers - Rex Porter, Stathis Avramis, Luis Arellano and Matthew Blandford

What: National Volunteer Week 2019 - 'Making a World of Difference'
When: 20 - 26 May 2019

In this National Volunteer Week, Connecting Up would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the contribution of our wonderful volunteers.

Connecting Up supports and values a culture of training and learning and our volunteers contribute to increasing the innovative capacity within the organisation. Our volunteers display key workplace skills in information technology, customer service teamwork and problem solving to SAcommunity and the volunteer program every day. 
 

Photo: Chen Li, Sandra Vallance - Acting Chief Executive Officer, Connecting Up and Renu Bala after presenting the results of their final project
 
Today we farewell our two new Professional Year interns Chen Li and Renu Bala, both UniSA Masters of IT graduates, who have worked together with our long-term volunteer Stathis Avramis over the last three months on creating a more sustainable volunteer model by implementing the volunteer management software investigated last year to structure volunteer admission and management processes, training and development. 

Every so often one of our volunteers writes more about why they started at Connecting Up and what led them to volunteer, to continue volunteering and what they have learnt from their experience.

What it’s like to volunteer at Connecting Up