When we learned about our partner, Good Deeds Day Venezuela’s wonderful project to honor a group of underprivileged youth who themselves were volunteers for Goods Deeds Day, we had to know more! We did an interview with Pily Mendez Quintero, the national coordinator of Good Deeds Day in Venezuela to learn more.
With summer break here, so take some time to soak up the benefits of volunteering as a family. Here are 7 benefits your family will receive from volunteering together.
Good Deeds Day this year happened to fall very close to major holidays for all three of the major religions – Pesach (Passover) in Judaism, Ramadan in Islam, and Eastern in Christianity. Multiple volunteering took place around the world that tied together Good Deeds Day events or projects with holiday celebrations. Here are just a few of these great projects.
In an interview with Laure Bottinelli, the Founder and President of ANACAONA Community, she tells us about how their partnership with Good Deeds Day brought a handwashing station to 300 students attending a school in one of the most challenging communities in Haiti.
Our oceans are not only the largest ecosystem on Earth but one of great importance to our existence. Each of us can take small actions to protect the oceans every day – even if we don’t live near one.
Do volunteers at your organization represent the racial and ethnic diversity of the community you serve?
This Good Deeds Day, a huge number of participants around the world took part in environmentally focused projects. From planting, to cleaning to even releasing fish back into the ocean – so much collective good was done for the earth.
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On Good Deeds Day, projects were done all over the world focusing on almost all of the Sustainable Development Goals. We found that this year, there were many projects focused on Good Health and Well-being, (Sustainable Development Goal #3).
On Good Deeds Day, projects were done all over the world focusing on almost all of the Sustainable Development Goals. We found that this year, Quality Education (Sustainable Development Goal #4) had a lot of focus.
