Celebrating Lake Taupo Hospice Volunteers - Alba
This outgoing, talkative and passionate Brazilian is always keen for new experiences and as a volunteer for Lake Taupo Hospice has certainly found her niche – already having taken part in a variety of the opportunities on offer to volunteers at Hospice. A former teacher with a strong love of sport and dogs she has been surprised to learn just how much Lake Taupo Hospice provides for the patients – from nursing care, hospital equipment, volunteer services and activity programmes. “I wish people were aware of all the services provided to patients of all ages and problems” she says. “Being a volunteer isn’t challenging and I’ve had many rewarding experiences. The way I see things and life nowadays is the best thing. It’s priceless to make a difference in the patients’ lives but the truth is they have made a huge difference in my life too. They have taught me to see things from a very different perspective and for that I am grateful.”
Alba volunteers in the activity day programmes, is a volunteer host and has covered an Art Exhibition as well as met the Prime Minister at the official opening of Izard Hospice House. She has also taken
part in a number of fundraising and promotional events and given a talk on Brazil to the activity programme attendees.
To find out more about becoming a Lake Taupo Hospice volunteer visit www.laketaupohospice.co.nz... call 07 377 4252 or email volunteers@laketaupohospice.co.nz
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DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
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