by Lorna Catrambone | Dec 5, 2024 | Volunteers
On this International Volunteer Day, we reflect on the importance of volunteers within our own organization, and in the charitable sector across Canada and around the globe. United Nations Volunteers designated December 5 as International Volunteer Day to recognize...
by Lorna Catrambone | Dec 5, 2023 | Volunteers
As we close in on the end of 2023, our 20th anniversary year, and on International Volunteer Day, on December 5, we think of our volunteers, who have been the driving force of Threads of Life for all those 20 years, and who we want to recognize not just on certain...
by Lorna Catrambone | Apr 20, 2023 | Volunteers
The theme for 2023 National Volunteer Week is Volunteering Weaves us Together. It’s a time to celebrate individual and collective actions that create strong, vibrant, and interconnected communities. The theme for 2023 National Volunteer Week brought to mind the idea...
by Lorna Catrambone | Dec 1, 2022 | How We Help
On this International Volunteer Day, Threads of Life joins volunteer driven organizations across theglobe to recognize and honour the contribution of volunteers and celebrate the theme of solidaritythrough volunteering.Solidarity suggests unity or agreement,...
by Lorna Catrambone | Nov 17, 2022 | Volunteers
In 2017, Eugene Gutierrez and his family experienced an unimaginable tragedy when Eugene’s father Eulogio “Bot” Gutierrez, a veteran mining survey technician, on the verge of retirement, died after being struck by a piece of mobile equipment in an underground...