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Title: Volunteers needed for River Carnival!!
Date: 06-Jul-2010
Category: Capacity and Awareness
Description: We need 37 volunteers to help us make this event a success!

The River Carnival is expected to attract some 1000 people and GEC is running 7 different games and activities for the community as well as an exhibition. Therefore, we need more hands to help us out!

Volunteers are needed to help out in the following tasks:
(download a more detailed task list here)
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River Hunt - 8 volunteers
Various ‘stations’ along the river with different tasks for groups to complete
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Shopping Game - 3 volunteers
Tag team game. Each group will be given a shopping list of things to buy. Pairs will be tied at the legs. The first pair will have to get the first item and come back and tag the next pair who will go and get the next item etc.
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Mural Painting & Sweep and Sort - 5 volunteers
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Jigsaw Puzzle & Nature Craft - 5 volunteers
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Green Dress - 5 volunteers
20 children under 6 years of age.
Competing to see who has the best ‘green’ dress.
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Registration - 2 volunteers (filled)
Volunteers will be in charge of assisting with the registration of participants for the games.
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Prizes - 1 volunteer (filled)
Volunteers will be responsible for ensuring the prizes stay safe and are not stolen.
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Photography - 4 volunteers (1 more space left)
Volunteers are responsible for capturing the memorable moments of the event and everything else! Each volunteer must have their own digital camera and take at least 100 photos.
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Writers - 2 volunteers
We need volunteers to just attend the event and absorb the atmosphere and write an event report for us after! This will be published on the GEC website. You can even interview the community members, participants and the people there to find out what they think about the event, the project or the river.
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Exhibition - 2 volunteers
We need some volunteers to help us man our exhibition booth. You will be responsible for handing out leaflets and talking to people about GEC and the project.
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This is unlike any of our other events and volunteers for this event will need to also be available on 17th July (Saturday) for a short (1 hour) pre-event briefing session on your tasks and roles.

Roles are on a first come first serve basis. To volunteer, please EMAIL me (regina@gec.org.my) the following details:

Name
Age
Mobile Number
1st role choice
2nd role choice

Once we receive your information, we will email you more information about the games and the event. Please email me ASAP if you are interested to confirm your place. We really need all the help we can get!

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