Australian Red Cross
Aged & community care volunteering
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Community experience
Community volunteering involving regular visits and companionship, with attention to respectful relationships and the responsibilities of the volunteer role.
Connection, respect and reliability
This experience is part of my ongoing learning about community participation and the importance of being dependable. It connects with my academic interests in social connection and everyday wellbeing.
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Links with my studies
My background in sociology and current social science studies offer a way to reflect on the relationship between individual experiences and wider social conditions. Community experience helps me keep those questions connected to everyday life.