More than 200 volunteers are needed for the 10th annual “A Walk to Remember” event this October at Loma Linda University Health. A Walk to Remember is a memorial walk and service held in honor of National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.
Volunteering at the event is its own reward, according to previous volunteers Meghan Clark, a phlebotomist at Loma Linda University Medical Center, and Tiffany Robinson, a marketing events specialist at Loma Linda University Health.
"I have had the privilege of volunteering for A Walk to Remember for the past six years and have met some amazing individuals while helping families in need,” Clark says. “Seeing families given the opportunity to remember and honor their loss is a very humbling and gratifying experience.”
Robinson says, "Volunteering for the past five years at A Walk to Remember has been a tremendously rewarding experience for me. I have had the privilege of working as a first point of contact for families as they arrive at the event. Having the opportunity to lend a sense of warmth, compassion and sensitivity to the guests as they prepare to honor their loss has been extremely gratifying.”
Held across the nation each October, A Walk to Remember offers individuals opportunities to navigate through the difficult tragedy of losing a baby (pregnancy loss, stillbirth and infant loss of any kind).
Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital has participated since 2005. The year’s event will take place Oct. 11 at Loma Linda University Church from 3:30 p.m. until about 5:30 p.m.
There are two different volunteer shifts available:
• 1:30–4:30 p.m. or
• 3:30–6:30 p.m.
If interested in volunteering, please visit www.lluh.org/AWTRvolunteer.
For additional questions, please contact Stevieann Beach at sbeach@llu.edu.