Spotlight on Volunteering
Issue date: 7/8/05 Section: News
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Spotlight on Volunteering is a weekly look at opportunities on campus for those looking to make a difference in the Drexel community. Public servants interested in participating in these events should visit http://www.drexel.edu/cce. Any organizations planning a volunteer event should call The Triangle at 215-895-2585, extension 3, or e-mail news@thetriangle.org.
City Team Ministries
Four to six volunteers are invited to help serve dinner to homeless men and families in the city of Chester. Once dinner is served, feel free to visit and sit with someone and brighten their evening. This event takes place Sunday July 10, 4:30 pm-6:30 pm. Call Carrie Ann Forsythe at (610) 878-4284. You can also e-mail Forsythe at CarrieAnn.Forsythe@zibbehring.com.
City Team Ministries is a non-profit group which serves the poor and homeless in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Portland, and Seattle as well as Philadelphia, with partnerships in over seven other countries worldwide. Each person helped serves as the key to ending poverty, homelessness and despair for an entire family.
MANNA
Five volunteers will be required July 11, 5:30 pm-7:30 pm to prepare and deliver hot meals and other commodities for homebound people living with HIV/AIDS. Come help to prepare some wonderful comfort food. Volunteers must be 18 and over. Contact Mandy Blumenthal at (610) 667-0658, (215) 241-3991 or at ajtrublu@aol.com.
MANNA has a minor professional staff and 1,000 dedicated volunteers who convey over 40,000 nutritious, home-cooked, home-delivered meals each month to individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS. The clients on their hot meal program receive a delivery of three meals (breakfast, lunch and a hot entree), Monday through Friday). Clients on the frozen meal plan obtain 5 different entrees and accompaniments including breakfast cereal, fresh fruit, milk, etc. Frozen deliveries are made once a week. MANNA's chefs and nutritionists govern the care and preparation that goes into every meal. Volunteers personally deliver the meals and provide companionship for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS.
Women Against Abuse
Assistance is needed to help sort and take inventory of donated clothing for women and children served by this key organization which strives to keep families safe. Meets Friday July 15, 5:30 pm-7:30 pm. Three to six volunteers needed. Get in touch with Renee Archawski at (255) 564-4544 (w) or at Renee@gpcares.org.
Since 1975, Women Against Abuse, Inc. has been working to end the cycle of violence towards women and children. The organization provides battered women with a chance to escape the violence, and aids over 10,000 victims of domestic violence each year. WAA not only operates a 24-hour emergency hotline, but also the only shelter for abused women and children in Philadelphia, the country's first Legal Center, and a transitional housing program for victims of domestic violence. WAA offers help and shelter for abused lesbian, bisexual and transgendred women, abused teens and women, disabled persons, the elderly, minorities and immigrants involved in domestic violence, and friends and family members who are abused.
Bucks County Housing Group
Come assist low-income families of Bucks County by volunteering at this food pantry. You'll interact with local residents, take and retrieve their food orders, and sort out donations. The event will be held Thursday July 14 and 28, 6 pm-8 pm. Two or three assistants will be needed. For more information contact Barbara Chase at (215) 752-3200 or e-mail her at barbc@langhornepres.org.
City Team Ministries
Four to six volunteers are invited to help serve dinner to homeless men and families in the city of Chester. Once dinner is served, feel free to visit and sit with someone and brighten their evening. This event takes place Sunday July 10, 4:30 pm-6:30 pm. Call Carrie Ann Forsythe at (610) 878-4284. You can also e-mail Forsythe at CarrieAnn.Forsythe@zibbehring.com.
City Team Ministries is a non-profit group which serves the poor and homeless in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Portland, and Seattle as well as Philadelphia, with partnerships in over seven other countries worldwide. Each person helped serves as the key to ending poverty, homelessness and despair for an entire family.
MANNA
Five volunteers will be required July 11, 5:30 pm-7:30 pm to prepare and deliver hot meals and other commodities for homebound people living with HIV/AIDS. Come help to prepare some wonderful comfort food. Volunteers must be 18 and over. Contact Mandy Blumenthal at (610) 667-0658, (215) 241-3991 or at ajtrublu@aol.com.
MANNA has a minor professional staff and 1,000 dedicated volunteers who convey over 40,000 nutritious, home-cooked, home-delivered meals each month to individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS. The clients on their hot meal program receive a delivery of three meals (breakfast, lunch and a hot entree), Monday through Friday). Clients on the frozen meal plan obtain 5 different entrees and accompaniments including breakfast cereal, fresh fruit, milk, etc. Frozen deliveries are made once a week. MANNA's chefs and nutritionists govern the care and preparation that goes into every meal. Volunteers personally deliver the meals and provide companionship for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS.
Women Against Abuse
Assistance is needed to help sort and take inventory of donated clothing for women and children served by this key organization which strives to keep families safe. Meets Friday July 15, 5:30 pm-7:30 pm. Three to six volunteers needed. Get in touch with Renee Archawski at (255) 564-4544 (w) or at Renee@gpcares.org.
Since 1975, Women Against Abuse, Inc. has been working to end the cycle of violence towards women and children. The organization provides battered women with a chance to escape the violence, and aids over 10,000 victims of domestic violence each year. WAA not only operates a 24-hour emergency hotline, but also the only shelter for abused women and children in Philadelphia, the country's first Legal Center, and a transitional housing program for victims of domestic violence. WAA offers help and shelter for abused lesbian, bisexual and transgendred women, abused teens and women, disabled persons, the elderly, minorities and immigrants involved in domestic violence, and friends and family members who are abused.
Bucks County Housing Group
Come assist low-income families of Bucks County by volunteering at this food pantry. You'll interact with local residents, take and retrieve their food orders, and sort out donations. The event will be held Thursday July 14 and 28, 6 pm-8 pm. Two or three assistants will be needed. For more information contact Barbara Chase at (215) 752-3200 or e-mail her at barbc@langhornepres.org.
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