{"id":65802,"date":"2025-07-16T11:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hospitalarias.org\/being-a-hospital-volunteer\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T05:54:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:54:02","slug":"being-a-hospital-volunteer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hospitalarias.org\/en\/being-a-hospital-volunteer\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a Hospital Volunteer"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\"To be a volunteer is to be generous, responsible, altruistic, tolerant, imaginative, and compassionate.\"<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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A gesture, a moment, a presence that transforms lives.<\/strong>
The hospital volunteer is distinguished by a spirit of free and compassionate welcome toward those in need and vulnerability, especially individuals with mental illness, intellectual disabilities, and other health conditions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A story with deep roots<\/strong>
Volunteering within the Congregation of the Hospital Sisters has been present since its beginnings. Saint Benedict Menni, the founder, is its most notable example\u2014first as a volunteer in Milan (Italy), tending to the wounded from the Battle of Magenta (1859), and later in Spain as a Red Cross volunteer during the Carlist Wars (1873\u20131876).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Volunteering within the Congregation of the Hospital Sisters has been present since its beginnings. Saint Benedict Menni, the founder, is its most notable example\u2014first as a volunteer in Milan (Italy), tending to the wounded from the Battle of Magenta (1859), and later in Spain as a Red Cross volunteer during the Carlist Wars (1873\u20131876).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Volunteers are members of the hospital community who, freely, selflessly, and with shared responsibility, enrich hospital ministry with their own gifts.<\/p>

In practice, their actions embody and convey a deep sensitivity toward the excluded, create a relational environment that contributes to humanizing care, and also humanize those who serve.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Hospitality values, welcomes, promotes, and accompanies volunteers in an essential way. Volunteering is a particularly powerful and meaningful expression of solidarity with the hospital mission.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt’s not just about what you give\u2014it’s about what you receive. The experience transforms you, makes you more human, and connects you with what truly matters.\n

For more information, please write to us at: voluntariado@hscgen.org<\/a><\/strong>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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