Championing our amazing volunteers - Adrienne
As part of National Volunteer Week #NVW2017 we are profiling some of our wonderful volunteers and the work that they do.
Today – meet Adrienne (Volunteering 10 years)
Adrienne coordinates a group of unusual volunteers for Lake Taupo Hospice – a creative bunch who make handmade cards for bereaved families. This group reflects the wrap around support that Lake Taupo Hospice provides – which is centred not just on the patient and their immediate needs, but also on the care and support of their families throughout and after the patients death. As Adrienne says “I wish other people knew more about Hospice than it just looks after dying people. They are there for families too. It is not just cancer sufferers but anyone who has a terminal illness”. The group make nearly 100 beautifully hand crafted cards a year and it is a wonderful way for this group to put their passion and artistic skills to great use. The cards are a really personal touch for families at a difficult time. A lover of croquet and petanque, Adrienne got involved with Hospice through illness in her family and seeing what Hospice did first had, says that the most rewarding part of volunteering for Lake Taupo Hospice is the “opportunity to learn something new and to meet people from all aspects of life and all age groups. I’m amazed at the number of people involved and the variety of aspects involved”.
In addition to her card making, Adrienne is a transcriber for our volunteer biographers team and often helps out doing a variety of tasks during fundraising and promotional events.
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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