Don't think that one extra voice in the crowd doesn't help out because it takes one voice sometimes to start it. And it takes another voice on top of another voice to keep adding to it.
So, all I can say is, you know what, no matter what you think, even if you don't think volunteering is cool so to speak, just remember that change happens in your community in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Whether it's like helping out the food bank, whether it's like shovelling your neighbour's driveway who has a bad back, you know, just helping out your community - that sense of compassion about where you live and the people that you live with.
I think a lot of kids get really discouraged by a lack of activity in their neighbourhoods and in their schools. Not every school has a ‘reach out' program or somewhere they can get involved with and raise money for overseas. But, thanks to 2009, we have internet and we have cell phones and we have so many different social mediums nowadays that makes it so much easier for kids to find out where there are other people like them - in their communities, in there provinces. So that's a really great place to start and encourage them to say hey look, if you want to do something there are other people out there and you can get connected them and that's a huge step.