Become a volunteer
VOLUNTEER WORK: A HEARTFELT GESTURE
The Father-Menard Foundation, in collaboration with the direction of Hogar San Pedro, gives volunteers the opportunity to spend time, to share their knowledge and experience with the impoverished.
Each year, ten volunteers choose to give their time. They give what they have, they give what they are. They decide to commit themselves and try to make a difference in the lives of these persons who are alone and at wits'end.
Here are a few testimonies of volunteers upon returning from Hogar San Pedro :
"We would be with the patients, greeting them personally each day, listening to them according to their needs. We would try to brighten their day with our smiles and good humor."
- Madam Hélène Monet.
"I think I did my best and I opened my arms, my heart, I smiled and I prayed and will continue to think of them."
- Madam Hélène Monet.
"All the patients of Hogar San Pedro need for us to listen, to be available, to love them. It is for this reason that I went. I came back with my mind and heart full of memories about them and I hope to see them again soon for distance creates an emptiness within me, the result of an incomparable experience."
- Madam Rachel Plante.
"To be a part of the work initiated by Father Menard was a great provilege. To rub shoulders with death, poverty and misery, one cannot help but underline the social and material injustices of this world. Happily, there is a justice, that of the heart! It allows us to recognize in each human being what is best and to receive him as such and to give him the love he has a right to receive. When I set out of Peru, I did not know what I was searching for... Today, I know what I have found."
- Madam Mireille Therrien.
If you would like to engage in volunteer work at Hogar San Pedro, please get in touch with the Director General of the Father-Menard Foundation, Madam Nicole Bernard
By phone : 514 274 7645 or by email : info@fondationperemenard.org.
