EP98: Create More Than You Consume: Volunteering in Your Twenties

Rania Dudum and Zoe Rucker are in their early twenties, juggling work, school, roommates, and everything else that comes with that stage of life. They still make time for Binky Patrol, and in this episode they tell Susan why.

Rania describes her first Bink-A-Thon, where volunteers who had never met made nearly 300 blankets in five hours. Zoe explains why the lowest barrier to entry she has ever seen keeps her coming back. Together they cover eight new chapters opened this year, a crochet creator with 200,000 followers who posted about Binky Patrol after a single message, and the legacy afghans that found new purpose with children in crisis.

Susan closes with a look back at 30 years and a wish: a Binky Patrol chapter in every county in America.

Rania Dudum [00:02:10]:

“Getting to spend an hour out of your day making a blanket can impact the life of a child for the rest of theirs.”

Zoe Rucker [00:05:20]:

“It’s a serious thing, but it is, like, genuinely the most unserious thing, I feel like if you want to get involved, all you have to do is make a blanket, and that could take an hour or you could spend days doing it.”

Learn more at https://binkypatrol.org and how you can get involved.