National Day of Service
I’m so sorry it has been a while for the blog. However, we are still very busy in Cedar Rapids. Please keep checking our website, http://www.vistacorridorrecovery.org. Our news and photos section is updated every week with new stories about our program.
In case you didn’t know this week April 19-23, 2010 is National Volunteer Week. This is a week to both celebrate the contribution of all volunteers everywhere and ask others to volunteer their time and talents.
At VISTA Corridor Recovery we are constantly astounded by the generosity from our volunteers. Since the flood in 2008 we have coordinated just under 7400 volunteers who have accumulated over 204,000 hours. This is over just a 22 month period. Volunteers who have traveled to Cedar Rapids have worked on a number of different projects around the city. They have helped to restore damaged houses into homes, from cleaning up from the flood through the rebuilding process. They have come from all over the country with a variety of skills and touched the hearts of Cedar Rapids residents.
Since the flood we have sponsored a number of volunteer events including two Martin Luther King days of services, 9/11 day of service, Harvest of Hope, United Way’s Day of Caring and National Volunteer Week. At each event we had dozens of volunteers attend willing to do anything to help. Without their energy and enthusiasm our events wouldn’t have been the successes we’ve had.
In fact without our thousands of volunteers the city of Cedar Rapids wouldn’t be in the current state of rebuild. So for National Volunteer Week we would like to THANK every volunteer who has come to Cedar Rapids to help the rebuild process. Also we encourage everyone to spend some time this week volunteering in their community.
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