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AUT School of Communications students have launched a new project to show the public there is more to volunteering than stuffing envelopes.

The ‘Addressing Volunteering’ project aims to push the envelope by writing stories about the many varied roles played by volunteers in not for profit community groups. The students will pick up their pens and head off over the next 2 months to investigate Auckland’s volunteering scene. Their stories will be submitted to local media for publication.

“Most people think volunteering is about stuffing envelopes” says Volunteering Auckland’s Regional Manager Cheryll Martin. “We have challenged AUT’s budding journalists to reveal the amazing range of volunteering work within our membership of almost 300 not for profit community organizations.”

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The young journalists may be wading through the Waitakeres with conservation volunteers, catching up with volunteer rugby coaches on the North Shore or interviewing youth mentors in South Auckland. Volunteering Auckland hopes that the aspiring journalists will raise public awareness about the diversity of opportunities for volunteering.

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