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Volunteers donated 13,000 hours of service to Arizona Helping Hands in 2019
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If you search for reasons to volunteer, you might come across a list of 20 great reasons.
Responses could be to help others, to make a difference, to meet new people or to expand your horizons. It could be to contribute to a cause you care about, or even to impress your mom (or maybe yourself).
The Corporation for National and Community Service says that volunteering improves psychological and physical health, according to a press release.
Volunteers reap the benefits of feeling a personal sense of accomplishment while building social networks that, in turn, support them in times of stress.
Arizona Helping Hands relies on an army of volunteers to assist in its service to boys and girls in foster care.
In 2019, 1,397 individuals dedicated 13,026 hours of work to aid in our mission of bringing hope to kids who have been abused and neglected.
Volunteers helped run delivery errands, stack diapers in the warehouse, answering phones and wrap birthday presents.
Corporations sent in teams of workers to assist, GoDaddy employees sorted holiday toy donations, VOYA staff decorated birthday bags with messages of hope, the press release stated.
“It takes many hands to accomplish all the good that we do for boys and girls every single day of the year,” said Arizona Helping Hands President and CEO Dan Shufelt. “I love asking our volunteers what they get out of volunteering. Our regular weekly people will point to the camaraderie they’ve built with new friends. Those who come for a one-time project might talk about how it made them feel good. There are some for whom volunteering in our warehouse is therapy for loss or pain.”
Mr. Shufelt says the helping hands of volunteers assist in giving a child a safe place to sleep at night.
“We rely on the generosity of each and every one of our volunteers. Your time is a gift to us, and to the boys and girls whose lives we impact every day,” Mr. Shufelt said.
“From my desk I can see volunteers log in and out on our tracking forms. I love seeing the smiles on their faces as they sign in for their shift, and it seems to me that smile is even bigger when they sign out. They know that their time has been spent helping children, and I don’t think there can be any better form of therapy.”
