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August 25, 2007
Enthusiatic Co-op Students Volunteer at Casa
By all accounts, it was a great day of volunteering!
On Thursday, August 2nd, an enthusiastic team of eleven co-op student
accountants from the Vancouver office of Deloitte & Touche LLP spent a
full day volunteering at Casa El Salaam.
The volunteers arrived in the morning and immediately set to work on a
variety of much-needed tasks. These included: a full stripping and
refinishing of the house’s front porch, some thorough maintenance of
the
front and back gardens, and a refit of an attic space to become a home
office.
When noontime came, the volunteers broke for a communal lunch provided
by Tasha Bassingthwaighte, House Coordinator at Casa El Salaam. Jenny
Moss, our Coordinator of Volunteers, provided the group with an
introduction to CASA Refugee Housing Project and some information about
refugee claimants in Vancouver. After the meal, it was back to work for
one and all!
For these co-op students, the event was their first volunteer day
during
their time at Deloitte & Touch LLP. Their work made a significant,
lasting difference on the house, and was much appreciated by the House
Coordinators, CASA Refugee Housing Project committee members, and of
course the house residents. We hope they’ll be back to volunteer
again
in the future!
Casa El Salaam is a safe, community-oriented house in the Lower
Mainland
where refugee claimants can live during their first six months in
Canada. It is a project of Inland Refugee Society of Vancouver. For
more information, please send an email to info@casarefugeehouse.org.
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