"Who among you have UNLI subscription? Those who do can send
text message call or surf all we want! Unfortunately for us volunteers, we are
not UNLI. We are limited. We have limited resources, limited time, limited
capabilities, limited knowledge. Though we are limited human beings, we have an
UNLI Creator who made us in His image and likeness, giving us a spark of divine
intelligence and a free will. And with this dignity we will be able to
transcend our limited condition. In volunteering, our limited nature is
transformed into UNLI acts of generous self-giving, loving response to varying
needs of our country in different circumstances from uplifting the ordinary
day-to-day life of our people to responding to emergencies and
calamities," said Annabelle Pizarro-Brown, founder of the volunteer-driven
NGO Alalay sa Pamilya at Bayan Foundation, in her keynote speech at the
recently-concluded 5th National Volunteer Summit (NVS) held at the Peñafrancia
Resort, barangay of Carolina, Naga City.
Participated in by volunteers and service-oriented students, and those
the keynote speaker referred as "young, young-at-heart, and forever
young" volunteers from Zambales to Zamboanga, the 5th NVS, convened by the
Volunteer Organizations Information, Coordination and Exchange (VOICE) Network
Inc., explored the emerging challenges, and presented best practices in
volunteer engagement in the areas of education and community development,
emergency/disaster preparedness, volunteer service innovation, volunteer
management, among others.
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