Student volunteers honored at Maimonides
“Each one of you are angels from God.” Those were the words of Maimonides Executive Vice President Douglas Jablon as he addressed the 180 student volunteers present at the Annual Volunteer Students Recognition Ceremony.
In total, students spent over 16,000 total hours volunteering — and benefited as did the hospital and its patients. There is no greater example than Dennis, a senior at Brooklyn Tech who will be attending Hunter College in the fall.
Dennis spent his time with many patients that are missing a human connection, “Some of the patients exclusively spoke Russian which is something I would be able to communicate with them in,” he said. “They felt disconnected because many of the nurses did not speak their language.”