Volunteering With Purpose

Nora Domingo, a cancer survivor, signed up to volunteer at the Cross Cancer Institute in 2017, the year after her own diagnosis. She started as a wayfinder, walking patients and their families to appointments, and found a home in the volunteer-run gift shop, where one of her favourite jobs is helping someone in chemotherapy choose a hat, toque or scarf. She kept her wayfinding shifts through the pandemic and has given more than 2,500 hours, and the shop’s profits go back to the volunteer association to fund patient programs at the Cross.