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Junior Chamber International Ireland survey provides insight into community needs

   According to a public survey conducted by the leadership development group Junior Chamber International, ‘signing up with Volunteer.ie’ is the second most helpful act within a community, topped only by ‘planting flowers in a public area.’ ‘Signing up to Volunteer.ie’ and ‘running a charity event’ both received 16 per cent of votes for the best thing you can do to help a community.

 

Of course, signing up with Volunteer Centres Ireland is only part of the task, to better the community try completing a project! A fantastic opportunity for getting involved with VCI would be to participate in the upcoming National Day of Volunteering on October 1st, 2010. You could easily combine this survey’s first and second place winners into one great community building project by organizing a flower planting event and registering it on www.volunteer.ie. I

 

 

nterestingly, the choice to ‘become active in your local policital party’ did not recieve a single vote during the survey. ‘I was surprised to see that not one person would consider joining a political party,’ said JCI’s Mark Kelly.

 

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