{"id":3267,"date":"2017-03-16T10:36:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T17:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2017-03-16T10:36:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T17:36:03","slug":"volunteer-opportunity-for-lfs-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-3267","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer opportunity for LFS students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Aida and I&#8217;m reaching out on behalf of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikecoop.ca\/\">AMS Bike Co-op<\/a>. We are currently looking for volunteers to support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikecoop.ca\/programs\/bici-libre\/\">Bici Libre<\/a>, a program that provides temporary foreign agricultural workers across the Lower Mainland with access to bicycles, which are often their only means of autonomous transportation. We thought this would be a good opportunity for LFS students, since it&#8217;s a great way to gain perspective into the complex world of agriculture,\u00a0migration\u00a0and mobility. These are some of the ways students can get involved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Outreach: <\/strong>in April, we&#8217;ll be starting the outreach component of Bici Libre. This involves travelling with a group of AMS Bike Co-op staff and volunteers to various farms across the Lower Mainland to provide bikes, tune-ups and accessories to agricultural workers that would otherwise lack access to autonomous transportation. The clinics are generally on Sundays (though sometimes on Saturdays), and tend to be a full day commitment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Translation: <\/strong>we\u2019re always looking for folks to help us translate from English to Spanish and to attend clinics and provide linguistic support to mechanics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Building bikes: <\/strong>on Volunteer Day (Wednesdays from 11am-5pm) we build bikes for folks that wouldn\u2019t otherwise have access, particularly for Bici Libre.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Administrative support: <\/strong>we sometimes need help with administrative tasks related to Bici Libre. This includes data entry, translation and blog writing, among other tasks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you think there are students in your department that may be interested, please let me know and I&#8217;d be happy to provide more information or do a brief presentation. Please also feel free to pass this information onto anyone that may be interested.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>Aida&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aida Mas\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AMS Bike Co-op<\/p>\n<p>University of British Columbia<\/p>\n<p>604-822-2453 |\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bikecoop.ca\/\">bikecoop.ca<\/a>\u00a0| @ubcbike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Aida and I&#8217;m reaching out on behalf of the AMS Bike Co-op. We are currently looking for volunteers to support Bici Libre, a program that provides temporary foreign agricultural workers across the Lower Mainland with access to bicycles, which are often their only means of autonomous transportation. We thought this would be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}