Country Meadows celebrates volunteers’ hard work
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- Published on Friday, July 14, 2017
By Jeannine Adriaansen
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Volunteer Canada sets aside a week every year in April to appreciate the volunteers across Canada, this year it was from Apr. 23-29. They choose a different theme every year for the event and this year’s theme was Volunteer eh!
On Apr. 27, Country Meadows hosted a volunteer appreciation tea, for all the volunteers from Country Meadows, Neepawa Health Centre, Adult Day Program and the Meals on Wheels program. In total, 60 volunteers attended the appreciation tea.
The tea started with an opening speech (by Jeannine Adriaansen) followed by Country Meadows Choir (directed by the activity department), an ice breaker game and some thank you speeches by Jocelyn Scheper, (NHC Care team manager), Joyce Wiebe (president Resident Family Council) and Jeannine Adriaansen (Volunteer Coordinator).
Cake, coffee and tea was served by staff, it was enjoyed while listening to entertainment by George Mulligan. There were draws made for door prizes.
We would like to thank the Resident Family Council for donating money for the entertainment, as well as the local businesses thatsupplied food and refreshments.
As we value all our amazing volunteers, we place the spotlight this year on: Remi Bouchard: music and reading at CM. Palliative Care Group: offering their support to help patients, residents and community members to give them the best possible quality of life right up until the end of life. John Forke: Meals on Wheels. Betty Pearson: Adult Day Program. Leonard and Ann Pritchard: assisting with activity programs and events at CM.
Volunteers bring in such energy and passion to our facilities and communities.
Prairie Mountain Health recognizes that they all go above and beyond. May it be by fundraising for needed equipment for our facilities, by providing emotional and spiritual encouragement to our residents, patients, community members in need and to each other.
Volunteers devote tirelessly and bring inspiration and comfort and companionship to our residents, patients and our community members In giving their time, it is volunteers who define the quality of life for our elderly and sick people in the community of Neepawa.
Their engagement and support are helping us to reach our goal of making stronger communities.
Through the years, there have been dramatic changes to the volunteer programs. As volunteer coordinators, it is becoming difficult to find people to volunteer their free time for others. Family commitments increase each year, there are more two income families, as well as single parent families and this is making it hard for Canadians to find time for volunteer work.
The good news is, our organization has recognized this and is able to adapt and be flexible to the time and talents of our volunteers.
A big thank you to our volunteers, Volunteering eh! Together we are making our nation stronger.
