VOLUNTEERS FOR A SMILE
“Empowering the World, One Smile at a Time”
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ABOUT
Volunteers for a Smile (V4S) is a student run not-for-profit organization based at McGill University in Montréal, Canada.
We organize social events at hospitals in the Montréal area during various celebrations (i.e. New Year, Halloween, etc.) in order to provide patients with moral support. Our goal is to spread a joyful atmoshphere and hopefully be able to put a smile on every patient's face.
We also lead medical missions abroad. We partner up with international volunteer organizations and we send a group of students that we recruit and train to help out during school breaks in different countries every year.
Last but not least, we initiated a mentorship program for disadvantaged youth. We train students and then pair them up with a mentee from different partner schools in Montréal. The mentors help provide guidance and support through regular meetings and hang-outs with their mentees.
Our values
• Engagement: commitment and engagement are highly valued by Volunteers for a Smile. This organization is composed of a team of active volunteers who seek to positively contribute to the community.
• Initiative: Volunteers for a Smile promotes initiative by encouraging and inspiring the volunteers to participate in a variety of innovative and stimulating projects. We are also very open to projects suggested by our volunteers to better serve the community.
• Solidarity: the collective activities proposed by Volunteers for a Smile help to forge, if not reinforce bonds, exchanges and communication between members of the volunteer body; therefore, spreading solidarity and a sense of unity among the community.
• Compassion: Volunteers for a Smile promotes compassion through its goal of contributing to the society's well-being by making the hospitals a better environment for the patients, helping the international community and supporting the underserved youth.
• Altruism: Since Volunteers for a Smile is a non-profit, charitable organization which focuses on the betterment of our community, altruism obviously represents a highly valued quality.
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In The
News:
Activities' Night 2015
Come check our info booth at McGill's Activities'Night this September 8,9
August 25, 2015
Coffee House 2015
Join us for a night of entertainment and food as we celebrate the work of our beautiful hearted volunteers
April 09, 2015
EGGSPOSE A SMILE 2015
Let us bring the easter joy and yummy chocolate eggs to patients
April 04, 2015