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Insights and Encouragement, Windows Within Project Launch

Posted by Mary York on March 24, 2015 at 5:47pm in Forum Discussion

To all Hospice volunteers:

You’re invited to a explore a new website,  http://windowswithinproject.com created by myself (a Hospice volunteer) and designed to share volunteer experiences. It is my hope that by sharing these stories, we will learn to better embrace our mortality, and remind ourselves daily of the importance of living with compassion and connection to one another. The Windows Within Project is dedicated to all the Hospice patients and families who have been our wisest and most generous teachers.  And, as one volunteer recently said, “The Windows Within Project is a wonderful service, which will benefit other Hospice volunteers.  I look forward to receiving insight and encouragement to help me serve better.”  

 

Read more about the project here http://windowswithinproject.com/about/  and read this month’s Volunteer Spotlight and Reflection posts featuring Hospice Volunteer, Bill Carpenter http://bit.ly/1AspZPb

 

Like Us! www.facebook.com/WindowsWithinProject

 

Mary York

Hosparus of Louisville Volunteer &

Windows Within Project Founder

 

 

 

 



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