By Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Aug. 26, 2025
This week, Belize is hosting the Good Deeds Day Caribbean Leaders Conference, which is being attended by leaders from across the region who have gathered to share ideas, network, and plan strategies to expand volunteerism and community service. The conference began on Monday, August 25, and ends on Friday, August 29.
The conference is an offshoot of activities related to Good Deeds Day, a global movement that brings together millions of people and organizations in over 115 countries annually to participate in acts of community service and kindness.
The event has developed into a full-fledged global platform that inspires volunteerism and teamwork, and empowers people to do good.
“This conference strengthens the initiative of Good Deeds Day because, one, we’re bringing together appointed Good Deeds Day leaders who are coming from different countries in the Caribbean,” said Hannah Wojno, Director of Good Deeds Day.
She added, “This is a conference that we actually hold in five regions of the world. We have appointed leaders from 115 countries who are responsible for growing Good Deeds Day and volunteerism in their countries. Today, and [the entire] week, we have leaders from the Caribbean representing 12 countries, and we also have a lot of these local partners here. So, when we come together, we have a lot of different sessions around different topics, different projects, strategy, collaboration; it’s an opportunity to learn what’s happening from another island [or] another country, so that we can maybe do that in our own to strengthen relationships and to level up the work that we’re doing as a community, as a region, and as a world.”
Belize participated in the event for the first time last April, and this year, on April 6, Belize participated again in Good Deeds Day activities that benefited schools, youth groups, communities, and organizations which carried out impactful projects.
“That’s how we are, it’s in our DNA; we’re always helping each other, and so we moved on from that. We had over 200 participants, which was amazing; and this year, we expanded that far more to involve the youth, [who] came out in droves to volunteer,” remarked Charlotte Nal, Belize’s Good Deeds Day leader.
