National Volunteer Week 2021

National Volunteer Week 2021, April 18 to 24, 2021

This National Volunteer Week, we thank our dedicated and compassionate volunteers for their time, experience, and skills to help our community members at risk of or experiencing homelessness. We thank you today, and everyday, for the contributions you have made towards our collective goal in ending homelessness.

While many volunteer opportunities have been temporarily suspended due to the pandemic, there are several other ways to help out via virtual and micro-volunteering means. For more information about volunteering during the pandemic, visit: https://volunteeralberta.ab.ca/programs_services_resources/people/volunteer-opportunities/

Additionally, there is still a need for healthy volunteers to help those in need. The Alberta Cares Connector is a one-stop-shop for people looking for ways to help. Volunteers can browse opportunities and filter by location, schedule, activity or cause.

If you want to show your support, consider donating. These organizations are accepting in-kind and monetary donations:

This list is not complete. If there’s an Edmonton-based organization you would like to support, please contact them or let us know, and we can add them to our list.

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We recognize we are gathered, in collaboration and with joint purpose, on Treaty 6 territory. This territory is the traditional home and gathering place for diverse Indigenous peoples. The nêhiyaw (Cree), Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Dene, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Anishinaabe (Saulteaux/Ojibwe), Nakota Isga (Nakota Sioux), Inuit, and Métis, among many others cared for this land since time immemorial and continue to steward it today. As visitors in this territory, we honour the importance of the Treaty and our responsibility to these communities. Only in partnership can we create the changes necessary to end homelessness. It is vital we meaningfully engage and partner with Indigenous people and communities in this work while recognizing and addressing the conditions brought forth by colonialism. Displacement from traditional homelands, systemic racism, residential schools, the Sixties Scoop, and the ongoing overrepresentation of Indigenous people in child welfare, correctional systems, and homelessness are responsibilities we all share.