Happy National Volunteer Appreciation Week!
To our volunteers, we give a big THANK YOU! Volunteers are the backbone of Nikkei Place and contribute to the success of our three societies. Time and again volunteers generously lend their time, energy, and skills to help alleviate workloads, and support our causes. We are truly appreciative of all they bring to our community. While the Covid-19 pandemic has paused us from gathering, and being able to host events and activities, we look forward to the day we can welcome all our volunteers back safely.
Since 2017, the Nikkei Place Foundation has had amazing volunteers contribute to our end of year mails outs. Supplied with labels, glue sticks, coffee and doughnuts, volunteers would help staff assemble, stuff, and seal hundreds of letters. We would spend many hours together in conversation and community. It’s a time our team would come to look forward to each year.
At Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, over 300 volunteers annually support their mission to honour, preserve and share Japanese culture and Japanese Canadian history and heritage for a better Canada. Volunteers help the NNMCC grow and succeed, lending a hand with education, exhibits, research and events. Learn more about volunteerism at Nikkei Centre, and meet some of their volunteers here.
At Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society, volunteers make a difference to the lives of seniors, and are vital to their programs and services. By sharing their talents, time, and compassion, they provide a vital link with the community, a feeling of still being involved. Volunteers bring laughter, stories, a touch, and love to enrich the lives of our seniors.
If you are interested in volunteering at one of our organizations, please get in touch!