volunteers

Volunteer Brad Ng in the Visual Design Team, SAcommunity at Connecting Up, Infoxchange

International Volunteer Day 2019, 5 December - Why We Volunteer!
December 5 is International Volunteer Day 2019 and to celebrate volunteering and recognise volunteer contributions to Connecting Up Inc. we decided we would like to highlight some of our talented team members.

The SAcommunity Team welcomed some new members to our volunteer group in August this year including Brad who shares with us his volunteer experience below:

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.