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Volunteers
URGENTLY SEEKING THE QUEENSLAND “FACE” OF ARTHRITIS AWARENESS WEEK, 21-27 MARCH 2010
Do you have rheumatoid arthritis and are you aged between 25 and 45 years?
Do you refuse to let your rheumatoid arthritis hold you back?
Would others be inspired by your story and benefit from hearing about it? You might not think so but we do!
We are looking for a volunteer with rheumatoid arthritis aged between 25 and 45 years, to help us with media and publicity and we would love to hear from you!
Please email us answering the following quick questions:
1. How long have you had rheumatoid arthritis?
2. How old are you?
3. How have you achieved what you want regardless of your rheumatoid arthritis?
4. Are you available to participate in Arthritis Week 2010?
5. And of course your contact details.
Email - lee@arthritis.org.au
Volunteering
Volunteers make our services possible. Without our volunteers we would not be able to provide thousands of Queenslanders with our wide range of information, education and support services. All our volunteers are appreciated and valued - they are the heart of our organisation.
There's a satisfaction to be gained in volunteer work with us, from learning new skills, or using your life experience to help others, or simply knowing that you're putting something back into the community.
And of course people with musculoskeletal conditions have special qualities to offer.
Telephone Information Service
These trained volunteers take calls from the public about arthritis or other musculoskeletal conditions. Thorough training is provided, and there is health professional staff to assist at all times. When you work in this area, you'll talk to a wide range of callers. Examples include school children with projects, people diagnosed with a musculoskeletal condition or from health professionals wanting to improve their understanding.
We ask for a weekly or fortnightly shift of three hours or more, at our office in Windsor.
Community speakers
Volunteers are trained in presenting talks on arthritis and other related conditions. Each year we reach a lot of people this way, in retirement villages, service clubs, fitness centres and other venues. The commitment is variable, being based on requests for speakers.
If you enjoy public speaking and want to help people learn, please contact us for more details via email.
Office volunteers
We are looking for people with experience in the following areas:
- general office work
- data entry
Your ability to offer a regular time every week would make a real difference to our work.
Media volunteers
From time to time Arthritis Queensland receives requests from journalists seeking volunteers to be ‘case studies’ for newspaper articles or radio/television programs on living with a musculoskeletal condition.
If you have arthritis, osteoporosis or another musculoskeletal condition and would like to be offered the opportunity to tell your story. This information will only be used to identify suitable case studies for media requests.
Please be assured that when you are on our list of media volunteers there is absolutely no obligation to be interviewed. Arthritis Queensland will contact you before any details are passed to the media.
For more information about becomming a volunteer, contact Arthritis Queensland on 1800 011 041 or please send through an email.