19 days to go: celebrating National Volunteer Week

19 days to go until Pan Pacs 2016! This Monday we are celebrating National Volunteer Week. Without volunteers, New Zealand Water Polo and the Pan Pacific Youth Water Polo Festival would struggle to exist.

This year, National Volunteer Week started yesterday and will run through until Saturday 25th June. Events will be held to recognise and celebrate the vital contribution of New Zealand's approximately 1.2 million volunteers to social development, the economy, and the environment. The year, National Volunteer Week focuses on time through the following two sayings: Make time - Whai whā, and Thanks for making time - Kia ora mō tāu whai whā.

Through this campaign, Volunteering New Zealand hopes volunteers will be recognised for making time for their communities. 

We would like to thank all of our volunteers, from flippa ball through to high performance, for what you do for water polo in New Zealand. We often take for granted the work that most deserves our gratitude. To all the volunteers who will be in Auckland in 19 days' time, and to all those volunteers who helped them on their journey - volunteering is the backbone of this sport - thank you!