{"id":621,"date":"2024-03-10T06:03:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T06:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.105.28.161\/cms\/?post_type=news&#038;p=621"},"modified":"2025-03-24T18:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T18:20:40","slug":"my-volunteering-experience","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/news\/my-volunteering-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"My Volunteering Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-9d681fba0a18dfd7b993\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\">\n<div class=\"sqs-block-content\">\n<p class=\"\">Newcomers are facing great hardships when trying to get acclimated to a new place and culture. COVID-19 magnified their impediments because most of the services offered were mainly available in person.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1611247712341_231910\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\">\n<div class=\"sqs-block-content\">\n<p class=\"\">I feel lucky that I get a chance to support groups and individual newcomers in their journey towards a better life here in Canada, and that NYCH acted so quickly and created a wonderful virtual platform to allow us to continue to engage and socialize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I joined NYCH almost two years ago to support citizenship workshops, later I joined the wonderful English Conversation Circles program (ECC) helping to build language and communication confidence through group conversations, and also kept some time for 1:1 professional and social mentoring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s great to interact with people from all over the world, with different backgrounds and circumstances, and I\u2019m happy we can keep doing it even during this crisis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alon shares his experience of volunteering during the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":617,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[35],"class_list":["post-621","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volunteer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}