I used to think volunteering was something you gave away an hour, a Saturday, a spare piece of yourself. Then I stood in a room at Create Community, watched people arrive guarded, half-formed by other people’s assumptions, and I learned the first rule of showing up for someone: don’t decide who they are before they’ve […]
We are not built from bricks alone, but from people. From hands that help, hearts that welcome, and the choice to show up. Every day, our values become action. Empathy becomes connection. Kindness becomes conversation. Compassion becomes time given to someone who needs to know they are not alone. Volunteers come with different stories. Some […]
POET Sabha AL Sheraifi CATEGORY Adult REGION / COUNTRY Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates LANGUAGES English and Arabic FORM Free verse in five movements About the poem Plato’s Hand grew out of my volunteer coaching with the staff of Goodwill Caravan—refugees who courageously serve other refugees while carrying their own […]
By Annette Ebbinghaus and ChatGPT! We are speaking to you from the future you once feared we might not have. We are the teenagers you worried about, the generation searching your faces for evidence that hope was still reasonable. You told us it was going to be okay. But what gave those words meaning was […]
At the edge of winter, someone leaves a lamp burning in the stairwell. Not for the house. Not for the name beside the door. For whoever arrives late. A nurse gives away the last minutes of her evening. A stranger carries bread up three flights of stairs. Before dawn, someone clears the snow from a […]
By Thomas Eckbom I see a need for love and care I see indeed it everywhere It gives my mind some words with tears ”Be always kind, be volunteer” I give my hand, I give my ear with pride, I stand, I volunteer So join us, be a giver too receivers want to follow you!
Mohammad Reza Shokri Amiri There are hands that enter a ruined room without asking who was right. They lift the fallen chair, gather the glass, set a cup upon the table for someone still on the road. No monument records this. By evening, the names of those hands have disappeared. Yet somewhere a child sleeps […]
I volunteer from a strong sense of what is right. I volunteer because curiosity and care move me to act, to look beyond my own experience and consider others. I volunteer by choice, not because I must, but because it feels fair to help things work better for everyone. I volunteer with patience. I volunteer […]
by Rhonda Bowen You may think you know me from meeting rooms, shared documents, hands raised around a table. But I am older than that. I live in the moment one person says, “I can offer this,” and another answers, “Then I can offer that.” I am not the absence of money. I am the […]
We are trapped within the boundaries of our own minds, in walls that we have built ourselves. But if we open our inner selves, an infinite world lies ahead. A world of colors, languages, and destinies that have never been written in advance. Geographical borders are merely lines on lifeless maps, while our hearts, in […]
