Greetings ,  

   Trust in Education has established web pages that will make it easier for families to find volunteer opportunities for their children and family. I have been providing humanitarian aid to Afghanistan for over fifteen years. During that time I discovered that givers are happier, lead more fulfilling lives and the greatest rewards come from the impact we have on the lives of others.  
   Compassion and empathy and a commitment to one's community are not innate. They're learned and the earlier in life the better. Therefore, it is important that we provide our children with opportunities to help others during their formative years. Volunteer opportunities are "out there". We want to make them easier to find.  

   Our website pages provide the following;
  1. The ability to search, using VolunteerMatch's data base for Volunteer Opportunities by age and county (Contra Costa, Alameda, and San Francisco)
  2. A list of recommended volunteer opportunities relying on feedback received from volunteers and a list of local volunteer opportunities not listed on VolunteerMatch, that have sent us details on what their needs are. 
  3.  A Link to VolunteerMatch's signup page, to join and to establish your own search criteria.
  4.  Links to Family Vacation Voluntourism Opportunities outside the Bay Area By Land and By Sea

If you would like to include your volunteer opportunities please complete  THIS FORM .

 If you know of organizations that should be listed, please forward this email to them or email us the name of the organization and any contact information you have, and we will follow up. 
   

Thank you,

Budd MacKenzie
Trust in Education, Founder


"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." (Barak Obama)
Khaled Hosseini, author of best selling novels The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns and And the Mountain Echoed wrote; Budd MacKenzie's book is more than a chronicling of his extraordinary humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan since 2003-which my foundation has been proud to support. Budd's book is a passionate cry against apathy and its insidious power. It is a call to action. In his own words, "hope is not a strategy". MacKenzie, an ordinary person moved to service by a deep sense of goodwill and moral urgency, bravely challenges ordinary Americans to join the struggle against poverty and human suffering. He asks us to not forget that millions inside war-wracked Afghanistan, especially children and women, remain marginalized, brutalized, and in need of education, work, food, and shelter...."