Halifax Volunteer News
Welsh college students spend 16 days volunteering in Halifax and Truro: ‘It’s about having empathy for other people’
Author: Angela Capobianco
Date of Article: July 9, 2024
Source: SaltWire Network
Website: https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/news/welsh-college-students-spend-16-days-volunteering-in-halifax-and-truro-its-about-having-empathy-for-other-people-100978109/
From student to author to hospital volunteer, this N.S. teen is making waves from China
Excerpt:
“…The 15-year-old African Nova Scotian was born with a life-threatening condition that has since pushed her to study medicine to one day help kids like her.
Simmonds, who is originally from Dartmouth but now lives with her family in China, was born premature at the IWK Health Centre with gastroschisis, in which some of her gastrointestinal organs had grown outside of her body….”
Author: Cassidy Chisholm
Date of Article: June 3, 2024
Source: CBC News
Website: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ahnaleigh-simmonds-halifax-student-shanghai-1.7220457
East Hants calls for volunteer firefighters in new recruitment video
Excerpt:
“…Ensuring that there are enough volunteers trained and available to respond within local fire and emergency services for the East Hants municipality is an ongoing struggle….”
Author: Megan King
Date of Article: April 29, 2024
Source: Global News
Website: https://globalnews.ca/news/10458068/east-hants-calls-for-volunteer-firefighters/
Volunteers purchase ice-fishing shelters for people without homes in Halifax
Excerpt:
“…Volunteer groups have purchased ice-fishing shelters to help homeless people brave the cold, wet weather in Halifax, which received its first significant snowfall of the season overnight Sunday.
Stephen Wilsack, who is a volunteer at the encampment across from Halifax City Hall, says he bought 10 tents himself and was reimbursed by “Good Samaritans,” and that 10 others were donated….”
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Date of Article: December 4, 2023
Source: CBC News
Website: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/volunteers-purchase-ice-fishing-shelters-halifax-1.7048524
3,000 volunteers set to make North American Indigenous Games a reality
Excerpt:
“…As the 2023 North American Indigenous Games begin in Halifax and surrounding areas, thousands of volunteers are working behind the scenes to make it happen.
At a site for volunteers in Dartmouth, N.S., stacks of colour-coded T-shirts fill the room; yellow for general volunteer, blue for lead volunteer, and red for medical….”
Author: Brooklyn Currie
Date of Article: July 15, 2023
Source: CBC News
Website: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/volunteers-north-american-indigenous-games-1.6906805
‘Please help us’: Halifax’s Ukrainian Store about to be displaced
Excerpt:
“…Donation operation in Halifax looking for a new home on the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine…”
Author: Jen Taplin
Date of Article: February 24, 2023
Source: SaltWire Network
Website: https://www.saltwire.com/halifax/news/please-help-us-halifaxs-ukrainian-store-about-to-be-displaced-100827712/
2023 Canada Winter Games: Organizers, volunteers excited after more than 5 years of preparations
Excerpt:
“…Anticipation is building on Prince Edward Island, with the 2023 Canada Winter Games just days away.
More than a dozen venues will welcome thousands of athletes from across the county from Feb. 18 to March 5….”
Author: Natalie Lombard
Date of Article: February 15, 2023
Source: CTVNews
Website: https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/2023-canada-winter-games-organizers-volunteers-excited-after-more-than-5-years-of-preparations-1.6274643
Volunteers needed: Ground-breaking North American Indigenous Games arriving in Halifax this summer
Excerpt:
“…Biggest multi-sport event ever in Atlantic Canada expected to bring more than $20 million in economic benefits…”
Author: Jen Taplin
Date of Article: February 14, 2023
Source: SaltWire Network
Website: https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/news/volunteers-needed-ground-breaking-north-american-indigenous-games-arriving-in-halifax-this-summer-100824149/
Halifax schoolkids say ‘pryvit’ to Ukrainian refugees in handmade Christmas cards
Excerpt:
“…Project aims to spread cheer to Ukrainian refugees and teach students about empathy and giving…”
Author: Frances Willick
Date of Article: December 23, 2022
Source: CBC News
Website: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-classroom-christmas-cards-ukrainian-refugees-1.6696331
Halifax Islamic group assembles winter relief kits for people in need
Excerpt:
“…Volunteers from Islamic Relief Canada came together in Halifax on Sunday to assemble winter care kits to help people in need of warmth and relief this winter….”
Author: Vernon Ramesar
Date of Article: December 4, 2022
Source: CBC News
Website: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/islamic-relief-canada-winter-kits-winter-warmth-halifax-volunteers-1.6674058