{"id":5761,"date":"2016-12-14T15:22:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T04:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=5761"},"modified":"2016-12-14T17:08:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T06:08:54","slug":"30-years-of-volunteering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/30-years-of-volunteering\/","title":{"rendered":"30 years of volunteering"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not often you meet someone who has been in the same role for 30 years, but here at\u00a0the RCH we have two special people who have not only achieved this milestone, they\u2019ve done it by giving their time in a volunteer capacity.<\/p>\n

Norma Crombie and Maria De Poi recently had their 30 years of volunteer service recognised at the\u00a0RCH Annual Celebration. To date, there has only been a handful of people to reach this milestone and we would like to take the opportunity to acknowledge and thank them for their outstanding commitment.<\/p>\n

We sat down with Norma and Maria to reflect on their time as volunteers.<\/p>\n

Tell us how you became a volunteer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Norma:<\/strong> I had time on my hands, the children were adults and I thought \u201cI\u2019m very fond of babies and perhaps The Royal Children\u2019s would be the way to go\u201d, which it has proved to be.<\/p>\n

Maria:<\/strong> My daughter was doing her intern year here, and she said \u201cMum, you need to fill in your time\u201d. So I applied and I got in.<\/p>\n

What moments stand out from the past 30 years? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Norma:<\/strong> Apart from the babies, I think the friends. I love the friends, some of them have left and we still keep in touch and I think that\u2019s probably been very good for me.<\/p>\n

Maria:<\/strong> The thank-yous that you get when you go around the wards. But at the end of the day, you get more out than what you put in.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next in store for you? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Norma:<\/strong> I don\u2019t know, I was presented with a beautiful dish for the 30 years last week and I kept thinking \u2018I suppose somebody\u2019s going to say \u201cYou\u2019ve passed your use-by date, off you go\u201d\u2019 but I\u2019m making splints and I do a mail run \u2013 and I think I can still do those jobs reasonably well. So long as the volunteers think I\u2019m doing a good job, who knows?<\/p>\n

Maria:<\/strong> I don\u2019t intend to go anywhere. I hope to get to 40 years. I\u2019ll be 88 so if the health allows me, I\u2019ll be here for as I long as I can do it because I would really miss it.<\/p>\n

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Norma (L) and Maria (R) have both volunteered at the RCH for 30 years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re celebrating two of our ‘pink angels’ who have been volunteering at the RCH for 30 years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":5763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5761"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5768,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions\/5768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}