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
Stock resale shops
Accept donations and sort merchandise for resale shops in Richmond and Stafford that benefit nonprofit agencies serving low-income persons and abused women. Your organizational skills will help bring order to what can otherwise be a chaotic collection of clothing and household items. You’ll be able to select a weekly shift between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on weekdays or Saturdays that fits your schedule
Additional opportunities:
- A Fort Bend area hospice program needs volunteers to provide support to terminally ill persons and their families.
- 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.
- Distribute flyers to the Fort Bend community on behalf of an agency that serves Asian women victimized by domestic abuse.
- Help a local housing program in Stafford with data entry and word processing.
- Help a wildlife shelter in southwest Houston answer an information hotline or assist with miscellaneous office functions.
- Raise a puppy for an organization that assigns guide dogs to visually impaired persons.
For more information on volunteer opportunities, call Volunteer Fort Bend at 281-340-1919, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Information on additional opportunities is available at www.VolunteerFortBend.org.
I like the habitat program too. Very proactive!
That meals on wheels program and habitat for humanity are very worthy causes.