Happy Volunteer Week and Thank You, From AARP Idaho

 Each year during the month of April, AARP honors volunteers across the country with a special week: National Volunteer Week.  In 2016, this celebratory week of April 10th-16th offers a wonderful opportunity to recognize and thank volunteers in Idaho.  Across the Gem State, more than 300 AARP Idaho volunteers are working hard to make Idaho a better place to live.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed that acts of service are what make us human.  “Everybody can be great,” he said, “because anybody can serve.”  AARP’s founder, Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus, was a retired school teacher who devoted her life to service and to the giving of others.  Like Dr. King, she believed that we all have something to offer and encouraged every citizen to find ways to “create the good.”

It is estimated that more than a third of Idaho’s residents are volunteers and it is well known that people 50+ volunteer more than any other age group.  Are you one of them?  If so, we thank you for your dedication to helping others in whatever way or ways you choose.  As Dr. King said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’”

We invite you to check out all of the volunteer opportunities offered through AARP Idaho and encourage you to get involved!

Visit us at www.aarp.org/id, Facebook at www.facebook.com/AARPIdaho or send us an email at aarpid@aarp.org