Which means you might have a few hours to spare
when planning your next week's schedule,
why not spend a few hours volunteering?
You could start with Nourishing your Community at Santropol Roulant's
Meals on Wheels initiative. It's a volunteer organization run by dynamic young people living in the Montreal community. It provides youths with bike-delivery jobs and helps them counter social adversity in creative ways. Meals-on-wheels helps bring people in the neighborhood together across cultures and generations through their innovative service. It's become quite the community space.
The organization has been using food as a vehicle to break social and economic isolation between generations, having youths deliver supplies to elderly people who have lost their autonomy. It also serves in strengthening and nourishing the local community by gathering funds through a thrift store and housing a volunteer bike shop. They encourage a diversity of people to take an active role in their communities through initiatives that address the health and food security needs of Montrealers.
They also have a great Rooftop Gardens Project aimed at 'Liberating Spaces for Healthy Cities' and making widespread rooftop gardening a reality in Montreal and around the world. The Rooftop Garden Project is a tangible link between local action and global thinking.
Find out how to get involved by volunteering in the demonstration garden.
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