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Volunteering in Calgary? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by lunarcat@lemmy.ca to c/calgary@lemmy.ca

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I feel pretty directionless in life right now and would love to find a community or local organization that I can contribute to and feel passionate about. This forum doesn't seem to be super active, but if anyone out there is reading this, I am curious to hear people's experiences volunteering in/around the city, and if you have any personal recommendations based on your own interests?

Thank you!

P.S. I'm interested in things like wildlife/biodiversity/habitat conservation, youth education/outreach, community gardening, animal care, and the arts. But those are all pretty broad categories so if you have any experience with them please do share!

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[–] eightys3v3n@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

We volunteer with a Cat shelter near North Calgary. You could look at the local Calgary shelters and volunteer for dog walks or something similar.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I volunteer at the Calgary Public Library. I do tech mentors, but they need Math Quest, Career Coaches, Ten Tech Labs, and ESL conversation partners. We need waaay more tech mentors! P.S. If you're on Lemmy, you qualify! Last night, I taught a lady what left click meant.

[–] lunarcat@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Thank you!

I'm in no place to career coach or mentor anyone, but I do like math 🙂. Also hello again! Lemmy is a small world I see, lol.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

Small world! I literally got an email today saying "We need more Math Quest volunteers! Please help!"

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I volunteer at mustard seed in Red Deer and I think they have buildings in Calgary too. Signing up for shifts is easy because you just do it online. It’s low stress and easy.

[–] lunarcat@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks! What kind of work do you do there, if you don't mind me asking?

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I usually do the food service Sunday evenings. But theres things like just doing coffee service too, or if you’re a morning motivated person theres meal prep for kids who don’t have lunches in the mornings during the week. Usually a shift for me entails food prep, then standing there and serving food to a lineup, then tearing down and washing dishes and putting them away. Usually around 2 hours.

[–] lunarcat@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you! I'll look into it :)