Nursing and Midwifery Students Recognised at UCD Community Student Volunteering Awards
A huge congratulations to the 90 UCD students recognised at last week’s Community Volunteering Awards for their exceptional contributions to the community.
Amongst the winners, we’d like to recognise our own Nursing and Midwifery students Chris O’Dwyer (General Nursing), Ciara Donohue (General Nursing), Riley Colson (General Nursing) and Edel Caffrey (General Nursing) who received a Gold award as well as Aimee McFadden (Children’s and General Nursing) who was recognised with a Bronze Award.
The UCD in the Community Student Volunteering Awards were established in 2020 with the aim of celebrating and recognising student volunteering in the community and in UCD activities, such as clubs, societies, peer mentoring, class representatives and the SU.
Addressing the ceremony Professor Jason Last, UCD Dean of Students, highlighted that student volunteers had helped deliver almost €30m in value to civic society. Guest speaker UCD alumna Janice Lau also told students to “find your passion, explore your interests, go out and continue to volunteer your time”, adding volunteering provided people in need with hope and helped them see “what seemed impossible at one point is possible with the help of one person, one coach, one dentist, or one organisation”.
A massive well done to all of our students and thank you for continuing to make the School and University such a great place to be.
For more information on the Awards, visit here.