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Connection and Contribution

Volunteering with Meals on Wheels

July 19, 2010 Connection and Contribution

By Kelly Neufeld
One need not be wealthy or highly trained to make a charitable contribution to one’s community. While some seniors have medical training and can assist in refugee camps in Uganda there are many other opportunities closer to home. Everyone has the capacity to help in some manner.
The ability to drive is the [...]

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Doctors without Borders: Where Age is an Advantage

June 28, 2010 Connection and Contribution

Working as a mental health officer in Sudan and Uganda
By Claudia Blume
When Catherine McGarva trained to be a nurse and midwife in the 1960s, she dreamed of going overseas and using her skills for humanitarian work. But she never found the time. She got married, had four children and a busy career in [...]

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Volunteer Opportunities with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind

April 8, 2010 Connection and Contribution

Can you imagine not being able to read your favorite book or magazine? Not being able to hop in the car for a doctor visit or just to get some groceries? These are the realities faced by people with vision loss every day.

The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) offers volunteers a chance [...]

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The Art of Art Therapy

March 5, 2010 Connection and Contribution

Healing images for cancer patients

By Jennifer Cox
Although art therapy has been a discipline practiced by many professionals for decades, only recently has it become a “recognized” method of therapy. In fact, Concordia University in Montreal is the only school in the country to offer full professional, master’s level training in creative arts therapies.
Art therapy [...]

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Mentoring: Share, Give and Receive

August 6, 2009 Connection and Contribution

Mentoring: Share Your Experience, Give of Yourself and Receive So Much in Return

The classic definition of a mentor:

An older experienced guide who can help ease the transition to adulthood of a younger person by a mix of support and challenge. In this sense mentoring is a developmental relationship in which the young person is inducted [...]

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Connections and Contributions

June 3, 2009 Connection and Contribution

Maintaining social connections certainly helps to keep us youthful. Being surrounded by good friends and family is known to increase the length and quality of one’s life. In fact, research shows that nurturing our bonds with others can endow as many physical benefits as being a nonsmoker, with the extra perks of keeping your brain [...]

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