Équiterre’s Volunteer Action Groups

Québec City Volunteer Action Group
Mauricie Volunteer Action Group

Although the Équiterre head office is in Montréal, many volunteers from across Québec devote hundreds of hours to helping spread the organization’s social and environmental values. In late 2008, Équiterre’s Board of Directors officially recognized these groups and created a position of Action Groups Leader to support the groups and help them develop.
 

Québec City Volunteer Action Group
 

The Québec City Volunteer Action Group organized information booths at several events, particularly on Earth Day and at the Foire du commerce équitable (fair trade show). Public symposiums were organized to provoke thinking about issues as diverse as energy self-sufficiency, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification and fair trade.

On the picture: Booth at the Earth Day event (Québec City). From left to right: Johanne Lavallée, Pierre-Alexandre Papillon, Vincent Lagacé and Mathieu Turgeon.
 

Mauricie Volunteer Action Group
 

The Mauricie Volunteer Action Group celebrated its fifth anniversary in 2008. Through symposiums on community-supported agriculture and booths at major events such as Expo Habitat Mauricie (Mauricie home show) and the Délices d’automne cultural celebration, the group continued its work of raising the awareness of the people in Mauricie about local, fair and responsible buying.