19 February 2021
"When Marcus Wong was a child, he was, by his own account, "awkward, shy and didn't know how to talk to people".
He also lived a comfortable life in Perth, and never thought much about how others lived around the world.
"When I was 10, I remember my primary school teacher telling the class a story of what it was like for someone living in poverty," he told ABC Radio Perth.
"It was never something I had thought about."
Mr Wong, who was WA's Youth Volunteer of the Year award winner in 2019, said it was the prompt he needed to think about doing something to help......"
Read the full ABC article here, and hear about Marcus' motivations for volunteering, and also meet one of our 2021 WA Volunteer of the Award nominees, Rachel John.
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