35


Geography students at NUI Galway volunteer for Gorta’s ‘Soup for Life’ event


Volunteering Fair, 19th September


NUI Galway’s President’s Award for Students When you volunteer with ALIVE, at the end of the academic year you will receive an ALIVE Certificate at the special NUI Galway Presidential Awards for Volunteering Ceremony. This experience can contribute to your personal development and is a great addition to any CV. The ALIVE Certificate recognises your volunteering at home, in Galway, abroad or on campus, including: Student Connect Mentoring, Societies, Clubs, Access, Class Reps and within Community Organisations and charities.


Volunteering Opportunities As an NUI Galway student, you can volunteer with a wide variety of community organisations for about one hour a week including: - Youth Work Ireland Galway - Galway Simon Community - Enable Ireland - Childline - Cancer Care West


Visit https://www.studentvolunteer.i e/nuigalway for a full list of volunteering opportunities.


Overseas Volunteering Opportunities Not only are there hundreds of opportunities to volunteer locally in Galway but there is a whole world of international volunteer opportunities. ALIVE connects NUI Galway students to reputable overseas programmes in Asia, Latin America, Africa and across Europe. Spend your summer months or even a year engaging with young people in Italy, building projects in Haiti, cultural programmes in Northern Ireland, a sponsored climb of Mount Everest in Nepal, animal preservation in South America or teaching in India. Volunteering your time, skills, and energy with any one of thousands of global organisations, issues, or causes, all helps to make a contribution within communities around the world. Log onto https://www.studentvolunteer.ie/nui galwayand download the ALIVE Guide to International Volunteering brochure or visit us at the Volunteering Fair, Wednesday 19th September 2018.


Find out more T: + 353 91 495 346 E: alive@nuigalway.ie


Drop into our office on the ground floor, Áras na Mac Léinn https://www.studentvolunteer.ie /nuigalway


Opening hours (Monday to Thursday) 2.00 p.m - 5.00 p.m


NUI Galway | Student Guide 2016 Galway | Student Guide 2018/19 5 | www.nuigalway.ie 4/17 | www.nuigalway.ie


Volunteer Make a


difference


Student Media


NUI Galway’s newspaper and radio station are always looking for new contributors throughout the year. No matter what your background you might have an interest in news reporting, feature-writing, sports, films, events reviews.


Flirt FM Galway has its own student radio station, Flirt FM based in NUI Galway; it broadcasts weekdays, year round, taking short breaks for Christmas, Easter and August. The radio provides full coverage of important campus events from the SU Elections to the University themed weeks. If you’re interested in volunteering call in, they are located just behind the Socs Box in Áras na Mac Léinn, sign up for training on their website. Tune in on 101.3fm listen online at www.flirtfm.ie, on your phone or tablet using TuneIn and @FlirtFM”


Sin Newspaper Sin Newspaper is one of Ireland’s oldest Student Newspapers and is the only Student Newspaper for NUI Galway’s 17,000 students. It is distributed widely across campus and in selected City Centre venues. Sin is always looking for contributors so if you have an interest in journalism, current affairs, photography, design and other areas of newspaper production, just give us a call at: +353 91 493 262 or email: editor@sin.ie www.sin.ie


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43