Help the Seniors by packing food boxes

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ORGANIZATION: Focus: HOPE

We are looking for groups large and small that can volunteer any week day (Monday-Friday) to help us pre-pack boxes for our homebound senior program.

Start the new year out helping someone else! Gather your family, colleagues, and friends to help out another.

We need assistance with building the food boxes, filling them, and sorting the stock.

Information about the program:

The Commodity Supplemental Food Program , established in 1971, assists mothers, children up to age 6, and low income senior citizens age 60 and older. In 40 years, Focus: HOPE has been instrumental in providing canned and packaged food for 21 million people who struggle to survive on meager incomes. There are 3 opportunities to volunteer in this area.

Central Warehouse can accommodate 1-30 people. The hours are Monday-Friday 9am-3:30pm, closed the first Friday of every month and Sundays. Volunteers that participate will be "cutting stock", that is Focus: Hope lingo for opening boxes and putting food on pallets for pre-packs (boxes of food).

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About Focus: HOPE

Location:

1200 Oakman Blvd., Building B. (Central Warehouse), Detroit, MI 48238, US

Mission Statement

Recognizing the dignity and beauty of every person, we pledge intelligent and practical action to overcome racism, poverty and injustice; and to build a metropolitan community where all people may live in freedom, harmony, trust, and affection; black and white, yellow, brown, and red, from Detroit and its suburbs, of every economic status, national origin, and religious persuasion. We join in this covenant.

Description

Focus: HOPE is a human service organization. Founded in 1968 in the wake of the 1967 Detroit riots by Father Willam T. Cunningham (1930-1997) and co-founder Eleanor M. Josaitis (1931-2011), Focus: HOPE unites a multicultural community in common efforts to overcome injustice and build racial harmony. Over the years, Focus: HOPE has initiated practical solutions to the problems of hunger, economic disparity, inadequate education, and racial divisiveness. Answers can be found in Focus: HOPE's technology training programs, educational and corporate partnerships, and food programs.

CAUSE AREAS

Advocacy & Human Rights
Community
Hunger
Advocacy & Human Rights, Community, Hunger

WHEN

Tue Mar 21, 2017 - Thu Sep 21, 2017
09:00 AM - 03:30 PM

WHERE

1200 - B Oakman BlvdCentral WarehouseDetroit, MI 48238

(42.400738,-83.12101)
 

DATE POSTED

March 21, 2017

SKILLS

  • Elder care
  • Food Delivery / Distribution

GOOD FOR

  • Teens
  • People 55+
  • Group

REQUIREMENTS

  • Must be at least 15
  • At least 3 Hours

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