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For the last five years, Bryan Wall has volunteered his time once a week to drive people to and from their cancer treatments as part of the Freemasons Cancer Car Program.

“This, to me, is the most wonderful volunteer work you can do because it’s an opportunity to help people in need in a meaningful way,” Wall said.

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However, a major shortage of volunteers in the Vancouver area means fewer patients have received rides lately and the program, which has been around for almost 30 years, may have to scale back further.

“I think that they’ll struggle on — we’ll just have to let people down,” said Wall.

The Freemasons Cancer Car Program launched in the Lower Mainland in 1989, and later expanded to Vancouver Island, the Interior and Prince George.

Volunteer drivers pick patients up at their homes and take them to cancer centres, and also pick up out-of-town patients from the airport, ferry or bus terminal and take them to accommodations near the cancer clinic.