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Wednesday 31st May 2006
Sanjay
Mukherjee in the garden at the Maytree Project, where he volunteers
MORE than 6,000 people in Camden offered their services as volunteers last year
- and it is hoped that events taking place across the borough will attract
thousands more.
The Volunteer Centre Camden, based in Kentish Town Road, Kentish Town, is
holding training sessions and a picnic on Hampstead Heath.
Sanjay Mukherjee is one of the thousands of people from the borough who
give up some of their spare time as a volunteer each year.
The 26-year-old former head of communications from Swiss Cottage spends up
to five hours a week at the Maytree Project, in neighbouring Islington,
which is a short-stay sanctuary for the suicidal.
He said: "I've been at Maytree for four years. It's important as it's
giving something back to the community and I've always had a very strong
belief in trying to make a positive impact and this is one way of doing
it."
Along with helping out at Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park, in Highgate
Hill, being a an adviser at Camden Citizen's Advice Bureau and a project
co-ordinator at Chalk Farm music charity Tribal Tree, working at Maytree
is one of 412 placements Volunteer Centre Camden has to fill.
To find out more call the centre on 020 7424 9990.
Original
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from Camden Gazette
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