National Volunteer Week shows volunteering as important as ever

This week (May 18-24) is National Volunteer Week. Volunteers have remained on the frontline during the COVID-19 pandemic, whether it be packaging food for those in need, or checking in on the vulnerable. This National Volunteer Week, the community is being asked to recognise that although volunteers have been forced to adapt, their contribution has been as important as ever. About a third of Australians volunteer their time each year and there are 5.8 million volunteers throughout the country, at least, in an ordinary year. But with bushfires, floods, and now the Covid-19 pandemic, volunteers have been leaned on like never before.