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Volunteer Ideas for Young People
Youth Volunteers. For liability reasons, volunteers must be at least 18 years of age though kids are welcome to help their volunteer parents through efforts like fostering or dog walking.
Young people can help Labs in various creative ways such as fundraising or raising awareness of the need for animal rescue with their friends and classmates. Kids can help by collecting donations for pet care supply gift baskets for foster families or new adopters.
Two of our young supporters raised money for Lab Rescue by asking for donations instead of birthday presents from friends and family! The selfless generosity of these sisters not only raised needed funds for GGLRR but also resulted in another Lab adoption!
We are very thankful and inspired by their generosity and hope others will be inspired as well. All the Labs and volunteers at GGLRR would like to send a special thanks to Alexandra and Olivia and share their story and a few of the photos from their party.
In May 2009, a wonderful family (Cathy, Paul, and their twin daughters Alexandra and Olivia) adopted Jackson from GGLRR, an approximately 1 1/2 year old yellow Lab who they just adore. Jackson has become a happy member of their family. Alexandra and Olivia celebrated their 9th birthday in November 2009, and independently came up with the idea for their birthday party---a fundraiser for GGLRR complete with Jackson in attendance and Lab related decorations and more. In lieu of gifts, the girls asked everyone who attended to make a donation to GGLRR, and raised $480 at their birthday party!
In addition to the money raised, one of the boys at the party was so excited about Lab Rescue that his family also adopted a dog from GGLRR. Here is the letter from the boy's mother to the twins' mother which sums this up better than we could:
I've been meaning to e-mail you to let you know that you and your family had a major impact on our family! After seeing your beautiful lab from the rescue and talking to you about how mellow and wonderful he was, last week we decided against getting a puppy and instead rescued a yellow lab from Golden Gate Lab Rescue. He is about 2 years old and the sweetest dog in the world. We absolutely love him!
On a personal note, I am enjoying having a dog who is not peeing all over the house and chewing everything in sight. Please thank the girls for making us aware of the rescue organization!
