{"id":101232,"date":"2022-06-17T10:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T14:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=101232"},"modified":"2022-06-17T10:29:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T14:29:35","slug":"record-breaking-day-of-caring-for-united-way-kingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/record-breaking-day-of-caring-for-united-way-kingston\/","title":{"rendered":"Record breaking Day of Caring for United Way Kingston"},"content":{"rendered":"

United Way of Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington have a record breaking number of volunteers this year for today\u2019s Day of Caring event. Over 400 volunteers from 34 workplaces are helping out on projects for 39 local agencies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Every year we\u2019ve had a large base of volunteers, at least 200 or more, but I think the reason for doubling that is people were at home during COVID\u2026They knew what was going on, people losing their jobs, their housing, not being able to afford food\u2026It may have come to light more during COVID and people want to do their part,\u201d says Chair of the United Way Day of Caring committee, Michele Finney.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWorkplaces have not been together in the last two years, so it\u2019s an opportunity... to come together and have some camaraderie that they were missing,\u201d she adds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Team projects include repair work, gardening and cleaning. Some of the agencies that will benefit from the Day of Caring include Home Base Housing, Kingston Youth Shelter, Dress For Success, Extend-A-Family, Hospice Kingston, and The Integrated Care Hub.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through the pandemic, Day of Caring focused on more individual acts and financial donations. Finney says this is still an option this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf anybody wants to make a donation to support a program in lieu of participating in Day of Caring, United Way will welcome that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Finney helped start the Day of Caring 22 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI work for Hydro One\u2026we have a charity campaign we run ourselves, someone at the meeting said \u2018I\u2019ve heard about how workplaces can go in and work at these agencies I wonder if this would be a good opportunity for Hydro One employees to know what\u2019s going on in their communities' and I said I\u2019m going to reach out to United Way and ask..They said, \u2018we would welcome you\u2019.. And that\u2019s how it started,\" says Finney.<\/span><\/p>\n

The day kicked off at 7:30 this morning at <\/span>Community Food Redistribution Warehouse; it will wrap up with a barbeque at the Army Navy Airforce Club.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to the CFRC interview with Michele Finney below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

United Way of Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington have a record breaking number of volunteers this year for today\u2019s Day of Caring event. Over 400 volunteers from 34 workplaces are helping out on projects for 39 local agencies.\u00a0 “Every year we\u2019ve had a large base of volunteers, at least 200 or more, but I think…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":101236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57],"tags":[2782,15751,15004,11881,6274,5458],"radio":[13056],"origine":[267,13051,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101232"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101266,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101232\/revisions\/101266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101232"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=101232"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=101232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}