Coming up on April 1-3, the weekend after Easter, is the Oxfam Trailwalker. It's in Whakatane this year, rather than Taupo. And if walking all that way is not your cup of tea, how about volunteering to help behind the scenes as an Oxfam volunteer? You get to stay with others who are helping and the jobs are not nearly as hard work as all that walking - I'm vacuuming and keeping the volunteer lounge stocked with food and driving volunteers around I think, sounds fun!
And on top of all that, the funds raised go to good causes in the islands, like this one:
'By volunteering in Oxfam Trailwalker, you’ll be helping people in poverty throughout the Pacific and Southeast Asia find new opportunities to make a decent and sustainable income, to feed their families, pay for school fees, and much more.
In the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, producing and selling honey is proving to bee one sweet solution to the sticky problem of increasing family incomes in the region.
Oxfam and our partner the Henagaru Village Development Cooperative in Okapa District of the Eastern Highlands Province are hosting bee keeping training.'
And, if all that is not enough, studies show that people who volunteer live longer!
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