Volunteer Fort Bend is looking for people who are interested in helping local civic and nonprofit organizations. Here are some current needs:
Help the unemployed
Retired or semi-retired executives, managers, business owners are wanted as interviewers in a job-search program sponsored by a faith-based social service organization in Fort Bend. Working one-on-one with persons seeking employment, these volunteers conduct 30-minute job-interview practice sessions and then critique the would-be job candidates’ showing, offering constructive suggestions on to how to improve their performance when faced with real job interviews. This assignment involves just two hours a week, on Tuesdays between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.
Give a lift
Provide transportation for ambulatory patients and their caregivers who arrive at Sugar Land Airport in need of rides to their hotels or to medical facilities for treatment. If you are at least 18 years of age, with a driver’s license, good driving record, and car insurance, your assistance would be invaluable to persons who have traveled long distances for medical care in the greater Houston area. Assignments typically take about two hours and can be tailored to fit your personal schedule.
Children First
Protect and defend the rights and well being of child abuse victims. An agency based in Fort Bend County that works directly with the courts has many key volunteer assignments available. Some volunteers research placements for children who have been removed from their homes; others review foster care cases and make recommendations for permanent placement; still others work with families in which abuse has occurred.
Additional opportunities:
- Interact in fun activities twice a month with a child age 6 – 15 in need of an adult friend
- A seniors’ program in Rosenberg needs help with switchboard relief, data entry, photocopying, filing, and assembly of information packets.
- Help provide food, tutoring, and recreational activities for Pre-K and elementary school children in a Stafford child-care program.
- Artists are invited to share their time and talents with at-risk children one hour a week for six weeks at local social service agencies.
- Feed baby birds and help nurse them back to good health at a wildlife rehabilitation center in southwest Houston.
- Assist a Fort Bend school district with cleaning, sorting, and folding clothing to be distributed to needy children.
