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Nurturing volunteer spirit

Freshmen at Wilfrid Laurier University hit the streets to shine shoes for a cystic fibrosis fundraiser even before they crack their first textbook.

As undergraduates, they're just as likely to be in the community cuddling babies, reading to children or visiting elderly residents as they are to be studying for exams.

A non-profit agency needs a business plan for a new program? A master of business administration student helps.

A program for pre-school children needs a volunteer to hold and feed infants? There are 13 students every term involved with children at Our Place, an Ontario early years centre in Kitchener.

"Laurier has always had a very special culture of student involvement and student volunteering and fundraising outside the classroom," said David McMurray, WLU's dean of students.

Now, that culture is about to explode with new opportunities.

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