Volunteer Spotlight

SAHELI has had an abundance of help over the year, and at this time, we would like to say a special thank you to a handful of those hard-working volunteers:

•    Earlier this year, at the Keep Austin Spicy Asian Food Festival event, we had well over 100 volunteers help us with this fundraiser. In particular, a special thank-you goes out to An Nguyen, Randy Ung, as well as to the family members of the staff; who were all such a tremendous help and were present from sun up to sun down, running around the grounds doing what was needed as it came up.

•    For our interpreter services, we have over 75 volunteer interpreters who cover over 24 languages. Anjali Lal, Divya Tuteja, Kyeonghee Jang, Lai Tran and Lang Hoang particularly stand out due to their willingness and promptness in doing translation work for us in addition to interpreting.

•    This past year Serena Chen was SAHELI’s Counseling Intern. She helped in a number of ways with direct services, with interpreting and translating services, and with general office work.

•    The helpline relies on the help of dedicated advocates, and a big thank-you goes out to Shaku Desai and Maria Huang for their continued help.

Thank you to these volunteers and all the others who have helped us throughout the year! We could not do the work we do without the help that you give us.