Share a Story, Save the World: A Volunteers’ Meet-up

Everyone can be hero. So start being one today. Share your story and pass on what you have learned from that story. Since storytelling is an age-old tradition. The passing on of information, make sense of experiences, and understand one another has the power to immortalize individuals and events, incite ideas and action, and bring people together.

Hero Of D Day and CSR World bring to you "Share a Story, Save the World: A Volunteers Meet-up. Both organizations focus on stories of volunteers and volunteerism and through this joint event, they aim to inspire participants to pursue their passion for helping others and live lives worth telling stories about.

Hero Of D Day is a social media organization that believes there is a hero in every one. Focusing the lens on the everyday hero, it recognizes great and small acts of heroism by collecting stories and publishing them online. While CSR World is the youth department of Benita and Catalino Yap Foundation that ensures the knowledge and experience of young people on CSR 3.0 – Citizenship, Sustainability and Responsibility – are comprehensive and will enable them to be better citizens.

The event will on 8th of November, Saturday, 6:00 PM, aspiring and seasoned volunteers from the youth sector will meet at Co.Lab, Brixton St., Brgy. Kapitolyo, Pasig City to tell their own tales and listen to others. Php 250 will avail participants of a Hero Of D Day kit, certificate, food, drinks, and an invaluable storytelling experience. 

There will be an opportunity to share volunteer stories with fellow volunteers. Juana Change, an advocate of freedom, justice, good governance, and social change is slated to speak at the event. Geoanna Corneby, a Corporate Social Responsibility officer and an active volunteer for various NGOs that further youth development, empowerment of the poor, and nation building, will be conducting a writing workshop for the participants as a culminating activity as well. 

To register for the event, please go to www.heroofdday.org/hoddhuddlecsrworld.

For more information on Hero Of D Day, visit www.heroofdday.org. Like them on facebook.com/heroofdday.org and follow them on Twitter and Instagram @heroofdday. For inquiries, email info@heroofdday.org. To know more about CSR World, visit http://bcyfoundation.org/wp/.