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DIY Volunteer Opportunities
Personal Hygiene Care Item Drive
Good hygiene is critical in this time of the COVID-19 global pandemic, especially in vulnerable communities. In the face of natural disasters, violence, or grinding poverty, hygiene kits can mean the difference between sickness and health for struggling families. You can help us with these essential items as the demand continues to increase. Please note only new, unopened items. See full list below. Sign up for this opportunity by expressing interest To volunteer Purchase supplies from the list Contact Village Family Outreach at villagefamily@mail.com for delivery List of supplies toothpaste toothbrush soap/bodywash deodarant chapstick lotion
DIY Ideas
- Cook a meal for a neighbor
- Donate your towels or blankets to an animal shelter
- Send encouragement cards to a nursing home
- Sign up to give blood
- Pick up trash at your local beach
- Send a thank-you email to a friend
- Help an elderly person with their shopping
- Create military care kits for those serving overseas
- Mow the lawn for a single parent
- Read a book to a person who is visually impaired
- Help register people to vote
- Deliver encouraging cards and gifts to patients at a local hospital
- Write an op-ed advocating for a cause you are passionate about
- Knit or crochet baby blankets to donate to hospitals or homeless shelters
- Coach a youth sports team
- Give free music lessons to schoolchildren
- Organize a summer reading program for children
- Teach computer skills to seniors
- Host a bingo night for nursing home residents
- Make birthday cards for the elderly
- Make birthday cards for children in the foster care system
- Pick up trash around your neighborhood
- Foster an animal from the local shelter
- Care for your neighbor’s pets while they are away
- Train your pet to be a therapy animal and bring it to hospitals or nursing homes
- Build a birdhouse and give to a neighbor
- Organize a carpool to reduce car emissions
- Offer to babysit for a family in need
- Collect grocery coupons to give to a local food bank
- Help repair or paint a local homeless shelter
- Build flower boxes for Habitat for Humanity houses
- Organize a winter clothes drive to collect coats, hats, scarves, and gloves to be donated
- Paint over graffiti in your neighborhood
- Organize a free self-defense workshop in your community
- Become CPR certified
- Volunteer as a crossing guard for an elementary school
- Create a newcomers group in your neighborhood to help welcome new families
- Clean up after a disaster
- Volunteer at your local food pantry
- Volunteer (training is free) with Crisis Text Line
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