Volunteer Fort Bend is looking for people who are interested in helping local civic and nonprofit organizations. Here are some current needs:
Brighten the lives of seniors
Delight homebound senior citizens with hot lunchtime meals and some friendly conversation. As a meal delivery volunteer for a United Way agency in Fort Bend County, you’ll be helping low-income seniors remain independent while providing them with much-needed human contact. You’ll pick up the lunches at a designated site near you on your choice of weekdays and deliver them to shut-in seniors in the general area.
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.
Help families outfit school children
Assist a local school district with cleaning, sorting, and folding clothing donations for low-income families with school-aged children. Coming by on Tuesdays or Thursdays between 9 a.m. and noon or Wednesdays between noon and 4 p.m., you’ll help bring order to what would otherwise be a chaotic collection of children’s garments and make the process of matching the various items to individual children’s needs more efficient.
Additional opportunities:
- Teach life-skills classes to residents of a women’s shelter in Rosenberg.
- Raise a puppy for an organization that assigns guide dogs to visually impaired persons.
- Help provide food, tutoring, and recreational activities for Pre-K and elementary school children in a Stafford child-care program.
- Groom, walk, and play with dogs and cats awaiting adoption at an animal shelter in Rosenberg.
- 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.
- Answer phones, accept deliveries, and be a resource to family members at a center that assists families in crisis in the Missouri City area.
For more information on volunteer opportunities, call Volunteer Fort Bend at 281-499-9102, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Information on additional opportunities is also available at www.VolunteerFortBend.org.
