The purpose of the stall will be to sell our handmade gift items from Zambia and Thailand, and our Solidarity Gifts support our ongoing projects in the communities we support in the Global South. We also want our volunteers to enthusiastically share the work of SERVE. There will be relevant training provided and previous knowledge of our work is not essential.

SERVE Programmes Manager, Paula Quigley explains, “COVID affected us greatly and with restrictions changing, we’re taking every opportunity to host events or to be at events. These events help us advocate and fundraise for our partners in India, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and many other countries in the Global South. We’re a small team and we need all the help we can get.”

Having skills like face painting, balloon modelling etc are desired, not essential. Volunteer roles are diverse for e.g. ushering, advocating, facilitating kids’ activities etc.

Paula adds, “We have close to 20 years of experience working with volunteers and cannot emphasise enough the impact volunteers have on our work. At this time, we need all the volunteers we can for different events this year. If you have few hours to spare, please get in touch with us and we can offer people different volunteering opportunities based on their interests.”

At these market events, volunteers will be required to have a friendly manner with everyone and spread festive cheer to encourage people to buy our ethical gift options for Christmas, however sales skills are not a requirement.  

Training will be provided prior to the events to provide you with knowledge of SERVE’s work. If you have few hours to spare on these dates, please contact us at kayleigh@serve.ie and we can offer you the dates that suit you best to help us out!