Please JOIN US!
Imagine the impact of volunteers joining forces around the world for one day of service! Can you commit to organize a service project in your community on Saturday, May 7? It can be small or large, indoors or outside, cleaning a park or tutoring youth – anything you want it to be. The point – and the goal – is to make a statement about the power of volunteer movements!
The goal is 50 countries around the world. In the words of Karen Baker, California’s Secretary of Service and Volunteerism, “Let’s not just meet our goal, let’s shatter it. Together we can show the world what volunteerism in action really looks like.”
The following countries will be participating: Locations throughout the United States, Argentina, Armenia, Belarus, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Haiti (in NYC), Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Jamaica, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Lithuania, Moldova, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Portugal, Rwanda, Samoa, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Zambia
This event is co-hosted by Meridian International Center’s Global Service Leaders Initiative (GSLI) and VOLiNTEER. GSLI develops leaders around the world in the volunteer service sector. In spring 2010, Meridian helped launch VOLiNTEER, an international network connecting leaders from more than 95 countries to collaborate on best practices and grow their effectiveness in their home countries. A majority of these leaders were participants in a U.S. Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program, Volunteerism: United We Serve, hosted by Meridian International Center.
Please Download “International Day of Service” flyer
For more information, please contact:
Meg Poole
Director, Global Service Leaders Initiative
Meridian International Center
mpoole@meridian.org
Social media information:
- Like us on Facebook.
- RSVP to the May 7 International Day of Service.
- Follow us on Twitter. Join the conversation by adding “#VOLiNTEER” to your tweets — adding that hashtag in your tweet is the way to have your tweet show up in the May 7 twitter stream.
- Blog about your May 7 event, on our website or your own (send us a link to your blog so that we can share it).
- Post videos of your May 7 event on YouTube, and send us the link so we can put them on our website as well.
- View our Flickr account of our VOLiNTEERs who are organizing service projects on May 7. Help us capture pictures of your project by emailing them to trying85line@photos.flickr.com — if you include your city and country in the subject line of your email (it should read tags: “Your City” “Your Country” — with quotation marks if your city or country is more than one word) it will show up on our map above!
