Volunteer BC National Volunteer Week Photo Contest 2018 Submissions Submission #1 | Marita Maas and Steven Corbin, National Safe Boating Kick Off event, May 20, 2017 in Vancouver | By: MADD Metro Vancouver Submission #2 | Snow ANGELS | By: Canadian Mental Health Association for the Kootenays Submission #3 | Snow ANGELS | By: Canadian Mental Health Association for the Kootenays Submission #4 | Snow ANGELS | By: Canadian Mental Health Association for the Kootenays Submission #5 | Every Women has the power to build community! | By: Habitat for Humanity Vancouver Island North Submission #6 | Rain Won't Stop us from Building Hope! | By: Habitat for Humanity Vancouver Island North Submission #7 | "Every day is ""Be Nice Day"" at Harvest Project" | By: Harvest Project 3rd Place - Submission #8 | The Arthritis Society Submission #9 | "We all need somebody to lean on." Volunteers in RCRG's Senior Peer Counselling program provide emotional support to older adults experiencing anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges. As much of their work – and their impact – happens out of public view, Senior Peer Counsellors are, like so many volunteers, unsung heroes. We’re happy to sing their praises during National Volunteer Week." | By: Richmond Cares, Richmond Gives Submission #10 | By: Volunteer Campbell River Submission #11 | By: Volunteer Campbell River Submission #12 | Serving up Lunch to Steveston Seniors. | By: Steveston Seniors Submission #13 | Volunteer Assisted Shopping Bus Trip to Grocery Store - Every Friday! | By: Canadian Mental Health Association for the Kootenays Submission #14 | Lake Side Clean Up! In partnership with Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House and Sasamat Outdoor Centre, youth from urban and the city to help clean up the lake for the beginning of a busy season. | By: Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House Submission #15 | Earthquake drill while flower arranging | By: Minoru Seniors Society Submission #16 | Making sandwiches for the seniors' lunches | By: Minoru Seniors Society Submission #17 - Not stressful at all changing the tape in the middle of the lunch rush | By: Minoru Seniors Society 2nd Place - Submission #18 | Minoru Seniors Society Submission #19 | North Vancouver Outdoor School Alumni Society president and vice president at Open House 2017 | Submission by: North Vancouver Outdoor School Alumni Society Submission #20 | David volunteers weekly at both the Strive Centre Vancouver and our Head Office in Burnaby. He is always friendly, helpful, kind, reliable, and an incredible asset to our organization. We feel honoured to have David volunteer at Strive. | By: Strive Living Society Submission #21 | In partnership with the City of Courtenay and Town of Comox and RCMP there are seven Report Impaired Drivers, Call 911 signs located around the Valley, with five in Courtenay and two in Comox. The signs are located around the main entries to the municipalities. The signs are really about letting people know that MADD is present in the Valley and all citizens have the option to keep our roads safe by calling 911 if they see a suspected impaired driver. https://www.bclocalnews.com/news/comox-valley-madd-road-sign-initiative-asks-drivers-to-report-impaired-motorists/ picture: Comox – left to right: Comox councillor Russ Arnott, CST Rob Gardner, madd member Ron Phillips, Comox councillor Marg Grant, Comox councillor Maureen Swift, me (obviously!), Comox Mayor Paul Ives, child of madd member Vienna Petch, madd member Christa Petch with baby Indiana, child of madd member Wilder Petch. | By: MADD Canada Submission #22 | Some of peer-to-peer Parenting Support Circle Facilitators (and other volunteers) at our Provincial Training Conference March 9-11 | By: Parent Support Services Society of BC Submission #23 | "20+ years for these cowboys! These two International Livestock Auctioneer Champions have been supporting the Vernon Public Art Gallery's annual art auction for decades! ""Don & Peter Raffan are a welcome fixture for this event and we are thrilled that they come back year after year to donate their time."" Dauna Kennedy, Executive Director Vernon Public Art Gallery." | By: Vernon Public Art Gallery Submission #24 | Handyman Brent Heath is one of the many helping hands around the barn at CTRA | By: Cowichan Therapeutic Riding Association Submission #25 | Smiling faces are contagious at CTRA | By: Cowichan Therapeutic Riding Association Submission #26 | A misty morning at the farm. It's a team effort to deliver therapeutic riding lessons. | By: Cowichan Therapeutic riding Association Submission #27 | Dream Lift for Kids | By: YLW Ambassadors Submission #28 | Autism Network Fundraiser | By: YLW Airport Ambassadors Submission #29 | Volunteer Ambassador Group | By: YLW Airport volunteer Ambassadors Submission #30 | Our incredible group of volunteers at our team-building fundraising event, Heroes Challenge! | By: Children's Wish Foundation, BC & Yukon Chapter Submission #31 | Our amazing volunteer the Maestro of Magic entertaining our wish kids at our Flight in Search of Santa | By: Children's Wish Foundation, BC & Yukon Chapter Submission #32 | Princesses and magicians volunteering their time at the Children's Wish Princess & Superhero Tea Party fundraising event | By: Children's Wish Foundation, BC & Yukon Chapter Submission #33 | It's Lara's first day volunteering at The Bicycle Valet at the Whitecaps game at BC Place! Lara comes to us from Germany and will be helping us out at events and in our office. Say hi to Lara the next time you see her at one of our events! | By: Better Environmentally Sound Transportation Submission #34 | Coldest Night of The Year walkathon Volunteers for the Homeless | By: Chimo Community Services Submission #35 | Our AMAZING volunteers helped us park a record-breaking 318 bikes at our Bicycle Valet at the busy Whitecaps game! | By: Better Environmentally Sound Transportation Submission #36 | Getting Down and Dirty | By: Richmond Green Ambassadors Submission #37 | RHS Green Team! | By: RHS Green Team Submission #38 | Christmas Decorating Team | Christmas Decorating Team | By: Mackie Lake House Foundation Submission #39 | Hilary and the books - creating a database for our library | By: Mackie Lake House Foundation Submission #40 | Gary makes the new look old! Adding picture rails to walls so we can hang more artwork! They look like they've always been there. | By: Mackie Lake House Foundation Submission # 41 | Neil and the two Rods serving guests at an outdoor music concert! | By: Mackie Lake House Foundation Submission #42 | Always smiling, Carol is such a great volunteer - willing to help inside and out! | By: Mackie Lake House Foundation 1st Place - Submission #43 | Terrace Church's Food Bank Submission #44 | Saanich Volunteers see the value of volunteering everyday! | By: Saanich Volunteer Services Society Submission #45 - "The annual Revelstoke Emergency Services food drive ""fights back against hunger"" one box of food at a time. This community events partners emergency service crews with community volunteers, campaigning door-to-door for Food Bank donations. Each year, approximately 300 volunteers participate to make this vital event a success. Last year, we received 12, 000 lbs of food donations from our community members." | By: Community Connections (Revelstoke) Society Submission #46 | Student Volunteer Aldo with adoptable Mr. Magoo at the RAPS No-Kill City Animal Shelter. | By: RAPS - Regional Animal Protection Society Submission #47 | Sunday afternoon volunteers at the Richmond Olympic Experience getting ready to greet the visitors | By: Richmond Olympic Oval Honourable Mention - Submission #48 | Disaster Psychosocial Services Program - Provincial Health Honourable Mention - Submission #49 | Two Rivers Gallery Submission #50 | A tall stack of envelopes off and away! Thanks to our hard working mailout volunteers our Gallery members stay up to date! | By: Two Rivers Gallery Submission #51 | A young volunteer helps lead kids through the Ooblek walk at Two Rivers Gallery's BMO KidzArt Dayz. Two days full of art and fun for children of all ages! | By: Two Rivers Gallery Submission #52 | “Cultch uber-voly Emma Chang entertains a cast member of Jabberwocky at the York Theatre” | By: The Cultch Submission #53 | A few of our Dedicated volunteers that help individuals into the saddle! | By: Kamloops Theraputic Riding Association Submission #54 | Our Amazing Volunteer Team - Lunar New Year 2018 | By: UNA Submission #55 | Greater Victoria Green Team Eco-Heroes! Group photo of the Green Team volunteers after the environmental volunteer activity at Saxe Point Park in Esquimalt, BC | By: Greater Victoria Green Team (Green Teams of Canada Charity) Submission #56 | Our Youth Volunteer Corps of Terrace, BC is proud to be completing their first year of community service! This group has provided amazing service and learning at the same time. This photo was taken at National Aboriginal Day 2017 where the youth volunteers planned inclusive games and learned about cultural sensitivity at our booth. | By: Volunteer Terrace Submission #57 | Our Youth Volunteers from Youth Volunteer Corps of Terrace, BC here in the picture are building a CANstructure out of donated food, during our annual Riverboat Days! This interactive food drive was planned completely by the youth, as is every project from this program! | By: Volunteer Terrace Submission #58 | To celebrate Canada 150 (2017), our youth volunteers from Youth Volunteer Corps of Terrace, BC offered their entire day to be the face painters at a local event! They had a line-up that was metres long! | By: Volunteer Terrace Submission #59 | During our 2017 snow storm, our Snow Angels program was being bombarded by calls from our local seniors for shovelling! We were short on volunteers able to get out to help shovel, but then our local pee-wee hockey team and girl guides stepped up and volunteered their practise hours to ensure everyone had a safe way to reach the road. | By: Volunteer Terrace Submission #60 | "Our youth volunteers were surprised by a huge cake to celebrate ""YVC Day 2018"" on March 3rd. This year, the theme was ""Building Bridges"". Our YV's Build Bridges in so many ways in our community - challenging the status quo, empowering the youth truth, and providing community service in the way they see fit." | By: Volunteer Terrace Submission #61 | "During the holidays, Volunteer Terrace's Senior's Program Coordinator hosts an project called ""Santa for Seniors"". We invite the public to come grab a tag off of a tree set up with gifts tags for a designated senior who may be isolated or away from family. Each tag has a few requests for gifts! This project is a hit every year and we get swarmed by caring citizens donating their time and gifts." | By: Volunteer Terrace Submission #62 | "As soon as August rolls around, we start to recruit volunteers for our ""Fall Yard Clean Up"" - a project from our senior's programs. We recruit volunteers to help keep local seniors safe in their yards by raking leaves and picking up sticks. This picture features a local high school class from Caledonia High School that allotted time during their class to walk over to a local senior's house!" | By: Volunteer Terrace Submission #63 | Our Youth Volunteers recently hosted a digital literacy booth during Family Literacy Day in January 2018. They were offering help to local senior's or anyone else who may need help understand how to use their electronic devices or how to access certain items on their device. | By: Volunteer Terrace Submission #64 | After learning financial literacy skills, students at Spencer Middle School share special thanks with JA Volunteers Aaron Jones and Cathy Coe. | By: Junior Achievement of British Columbia Submission #65 | “A swimmers swimming recipe, just add water!” ...... This was taking during April’s usual Sunday swimming lesson at Johnson Bentley memorial aquatic center. Swimability is a volunteer organization that offers swimming lessons to children with special needs. Swimability Canada is a Canada wise organization and the university of British Columbia Okanagan campus developed their own club made up of volunteer students. | By: Swimability Okanagan -UBCO club Submission #66 | Volunteers are the rock of our organization. | By: Kamloops Therapeutic Riding Submission #67 | Volunteers are invaluable! They bring hope and empowerment to our community!!! | By: Kamloops Therapeutic Riding Submission #68 | Some of our amazing volunteers that supported over 1,000 Indigenous youth delegates at Gathering Our Voices Indigenous Youth Leadership Training in Richmond, B.C. | By: BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres Submission #69 | Volunteers helping to distribute gifts at our Great Give Away at Gathering Our Voices Indigenous Youth Leadership Training in Richmond, B.C. | By: BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres Submission #70 | Monday morning RAPS Animal Shelter cat volunteer Jackie Brown feeling the love from one of our sweet shelter kittens. | Regional Animal Protection Society RAPS Submission #71 | Long-term mother-son Volunteers Julie & Johnny providing TLC to one of our RAPS City Shelter cats. | By: Regional Animal Protection Society RAPS Submission 72 | RAPS Animal Shelter volunteer dog walker Debra enjoying the sunshine with a Shelter dog in our exercise yard. | By: Regional Animal Protection Society RAPS Submission #73 | Yard Katz Host Monthly Music Events-Proceeds to to SOSVC | By: SOS Volunteer Centre Submission #74 | Our Volunteers are critical partners in the fight to bring awareness about lupus. Lupus Awareness saves lives - life expectancy is better with early lupus diagnosis. There are a number of communities throughout BC that have unusually high rates of lupus. | By: BC Lupus Society Submission #75 | Our Volunteers are critical partners in the fight to bring awareness about lupus. Lupus Awareness saves lives - life expectancy is better with early lupus diagnosis. There are a number of communities throughout BC that have unusually high rates of lupus. | By: BC Lupus Society Submission #76 | Our Volunteers are critical partners in the fight to bring awareness about lupus. Lupus Awareness saves lives - life expectancy is better with early lupus diagnosis. There are a number of communities throughout BC that have unusually high rates of lupus. | By: BC Lupus Society Submission #77 | Our Volunteers are critical partners in the fight to bring awareness about lupus. Lupus Awareness saves lives - life expectancy is better with early lupus diagnosis. There are a number of communities throughout BC that have unusually high rates of lupus. | By: BC Lupus Society Submission #78 | Our Volunteers are critical partners in the fight to bring awareness about lupus. Lupus Awareness saves lives - life expectancy is better with early lupus diagnosis. There are a number of communities throughout BC that have unusually high rates of lupus. | By: BC Lupus Society Submission #79 | How does volunteering impact the quality of your life ? Shelley replies: “Seeing all the kids happy and playing and sharing”. Shelley is a long-time volunteer with the Infant Development Program playgroup. She volunteers weekly with Liz Hennessey, Program Coordinator. We celebrate volunteers! Hooray for Shelley! 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