f you volunteer—or work with volunteers—we’d love you to join us for a lovely Afternoon Tea to celebrate YOU 🎉
Come along for:
🍓 Delicious treats
☕ A good cuppa
😊 Great company
It’s our way of saying thank you for all the time, care and kindness you give to others.
📅 5 June | 2–4pm
📍 St Mary’s Parish Rooms
Pop the kettle on (we’ll do it for you 😉) and book your place here:
👉 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/volunteers-afternoon-tea-tickets-1981567705349
How will the new patron economy impact events? We will see volunteers increasingly becoming patrons of meetings of communities of practice.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/03/patron-economy-impact-events-2
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"'Kind of fed up': A San Francisco woman with a shovel is solving a neighborhood problem
To deter camping, locals installed metal planters on SF sidewalks. Who's responsible for their care?
It’s easy to spot Mary Hickey from afar. She’s the only person carrying a shovel on Van Ness Avenue. She plods along the avenue’s wide sidewalk in her red rubber boots, scanning the long row of metal planters bordering Fort Mason Park. Peering over one planter, she pulls out a Corona bottle wedged under the leaves of an agave plant.
Although her gloves, shears and rubber boots might suggest otherwise, Hickey isn’t a longtime gardener. She became one earlier this month, she says, after becoming 'kind of fed up' with the appearance of the planters in her neighborhood.
'I started noticing in the whole city the condition of these planters,' Hickey says. 'That they aren’t being maintained. There’s weeds and garbage and graffiti and everything else.'
A few years ago, rows of planters just like these — long, metal and oval-shaped — popped up on sidewalks around San Francisco. Although the plants served to beautify some neighborhoods, most locals seemed to agree on their tacit purpose: to prevent unhoused people from camping in front of homes and businesses. Planters often appeared on the former sites of tents or encampments. When filled with soil, the large metal planters weigh over 2,000 pounds.
Some of these planters were installed by homeowners and others by business owners. Critics pointed to the planters as a prime example of hostile architecture."
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-sidewalk-planters-22225051.php
Maidan Wardak: First Aid Kits Distributed to 165 Volunteers
Wednesday, 12th of Dhu al-Qidah 1447 (April 29, 2026)
The Afghan Red Crescent distributed basic first aid kits to 165 volunteers in five districts of Maidan Wardak province (Nirkh, Jalrez, Daymerdad, Chak, and Saydabad).
Using these kits, volunteers will be able to effectively provide basic medical assistance to affected citizens during emergencies.
It is expected that the distribution of these medical kits will strengthen the volunteers’ capacity to provide a rapid and effective response during urgent situations, ultimately leading to the saving of lives and the provision of medical services to affected citizens.
میدان وردک؛ به ۱۶۵ رضاکار بستههای کمکهای اولیهٔ صحی توزیع شد
چهار شنبه، ۱۲ ذوالقعده ۱۴۴۷
از سوی هلال احمر افغانی، در پنج ولسوالی ولایت میدان وردک (نرخ، جلریز، دایمیرداد، چک و سیدآباد) برای ۱۶۵ رضاکار بستههای کمکهای اولیهٔ صحی توزیع گردید.
با استفاده از این بستهها، رضاکاران قادر خواهند بود در هنگام وقوع حوادث، خدمات اولیه صحی را بهگونه مؤثر به هموطنان آسیبدیده ارائه نمایند.
انتظار میرود با توزیع این بستههای صحی، ظرفیت رضاکاران در ارائه واکنش سریع و مؤثر در هنگام حوادث عاجل تقویت شده و در نتیجه، نجات جان انسانها و ارائه خدمات صحی به هموطنان آسیبدیده افزایش یابد.
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Maidan Wardak: Basic First #Aid_Kits Distributed to 165 #Volunteers
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
The #ARCS distributed basic first aid kits to 165 volunteers across five districts of #Maidan_Wardak Province: Nirkh, Jalrez, Daymerdad, Chak, and Saydabad.
With the kits, volunteers will provide basic first aid services to affected people during #disasters.
It is expected that the distribution of these kits will strengthen volunteers’ capacity for rapid and #effective_response during emergencies, and as a result, further enhance life-saving and healthcare services for affected people.
🔗 https://arcs.af/ps/node/8692
Source: Afghan Red Crescent | افغاني سره میاشت (@ARCSAfghanistan)
[ https://x.com/ARCSAfghanistan/status/2049345835348201813 ]
“Even if it’s at the cost of missing some of the talks, as a volunteer you are where the action is and you have a chance to get more experiences out of the conference.”
Read our full interview with @mborus, member of the Operations team for EuroPython 2025 https://blog.europython.eu/humans-of-ep-martin-borus/
#europython #conference #volunteers #python #contributors #europython2025 #opensource
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