I connected with Joan Perry, a Canadian resident in the US, via a comment she left on my Mysore photo blog. Joan who runs a photo blog on her city , Charleston S Carolina , had spent her childhood in Assam. She writes about her school days in Shillong in her blog . Makes a fascinating read.
In a post to mark the ‘Volunteer week’ in April last Joan wrote about her current life and work – ‘ what the heck I actually do’. She co-ordinates day-to-day routine of volunteers who turn up to work at a hospital in her town. The hospital gets over 450 volunteers a month – in ages ranging from 14 years to 90 plus . By her book the hospital has logged 82,000 volunteer hours in the last one year. They have helped the hospital with clerical support, have filled water pitchers; they help feed, make rounds on patients, push wheelchairs, help in the nursery and drive golf carts.
” I have a singing volunteer, a couple of clowns and pet therapists whose trained dogs wear official hospital ID tags”, writes Joan Perry, hospital director of volunteers and my new-found blogger friend in South Carolina.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Assam, Blogger, Hospital, S Carolina, Shillong, Volunteering |
Leave a comment