{"id":6922,"date":"2018-05-25T15:34:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T05:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2018-05-25T17:23:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:23:08","slug":"celebrating-rchs-oldest-and-youngest-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/celebrating-rchs-oldest-and-youngest-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating RCH&#8217;s oldest and youngest volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-36115 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/intranetnews\/files\/2018\/05\/EXT_7552_banner-560x314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"227\" \/>This week, we&#8217;ve been celebrating our team of more than 600 dedicated volunteers at the RCH with our annual Volunteers Festival.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As part of the festival, we\u2019re sharing some of our volunteers\u2019 stories, including our oldest and youngest volunteers Dulcie and Daniella.<\/p>\n<p>They might be at different stages of their volunteering careers but Dulcie and Daniella \u2013 the oldest and youngest volunteers at the RCH \u2013 agree that giving their time to the RCH has been life changing.<\/p>\n<p>Dulcie Cedaro, 87 has been donating her Fridays to the RCH (together with her auxiliary pals, they make splints for patients) for 28 years.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter Anne, then a nurse at the old Preston and Northcote Community Hospital, suggested Dulcie volunteer to help others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said, \u2018time you got off your butt Mum!\u2019, as both my children had grown up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tragically 18 months later Anne was killed &#8211; knocked off her bike, at the age of just 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I reckon this (working at the RCH) is like her legacy &#8211; I honestly think it has kept me going, I reckon I would have gone crazy if I didn\u2019t come here every Friday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are always here for each other,\u201d she said of her Heart-to-Heart auxiliary colleagues Phyl Brown and Maria Di Poi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been through births, we\u2019ve been through deaths, we\u2019ve been through cancers \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re like a family. We even go away on holidays together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The youngest volunteer at the RCH, Daniella Orrico, 19, whose role often includes sitting and talking to patients and families, says she has always found ways to contribute her time for those less fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>The sense of community service was instilled in her family, who have always encouraged her to contribute.<\/p>\n<p>I love giving back and helping out the kids and their families,\u201d said the second year student nurse at La Trobe University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do feel that you get as much \u2013 or more \u2013 than you give.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have learnt through the kids and their parents how strong some people are.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You feel privileged to be able to support them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we&#8217;ve been celebrating our team of more than 600 dedicated volunteers at the RCH with our annual Volunteers Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":6932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6922","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\/6922","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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6925,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions\/6925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}