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9 people are interested
Help Build Gardens for Single Mothers!!
ORGANIZATION: Volunteers for Community Impact
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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9 people are interested
Gardens for Single Moms is a program led by Rob Greenfield’s nonprofit Happy Healthy and Free and the Live Like Ally Foundation. Our mission is very simple, to help single parents to grow their own organic, healthy food for their families. Single parents are often short on time, resources, and money to build and maintain their own gardens and our mission is to help them get started and teach them how to grow food in the long run.
Through the help of volunteers in the community, we install the gardens and then maintain them for the first season. During the first season, we spend a couple hours each week in the garden with the family to teach them how to grow and harvest their own food. We supply them with everything they need to get started plus the seeds for the first year of gardening. We also plant beneficial flowers for bees and butterflies and create habitat for local beneficial critters. Each garden will have a few fruit trees as well. We will also host a potluck for the families and a cooking class that focuses on how to use the food from their gardens.
We are looking for volunteers to help us make this happen! Volunteers will work in the garden with us doing everything from laying down mulch and compost, which will include shoveling it from big piles and wheelbarrow-ing it into place to make the rows, to planting seeds and fruit trees to weeding and watering the gardens. We will be hosting weekly or twice weekly volunteer days where we can accept up to 12 volunteers. We are also looking for volunteers that would like to be more involved and would like to help with daily tasks such as watering and weeding. And we are also looking for someone with a pickup truck who’d like to volunteer to pick things up when needed. We are open to different ways that you might like to volunteer to make this project a success!
Happy Healthy and Free provides the necessary training for each volunteer position. VCI's part in this opportunity is to provide volunteers who are 55+ with a (free) comprehensive benefits package (inclusive of accident, personal liability and automobile liability insurance, a life Insurance benefit, free workshops and more) during the hours that you volunteer! Please contact the RSVP Manager over Orange County for more information: 407-298-4180, x 113 / rsvp.orange@vcifl.org.
RSVP, a part of Senior Corps, is America's largest volunteer network for people 55 and over. With more than 300,000 volunteers tackling tough issues in communities nationwide, RSVP shows how you can apply the skills and wisdom you have acquired throughout your life to make a positive difference in the lives of others. RSVP is federally funded by the Corporation of National and Community Service.
For more information about this opportunity, contact rsvp.orange@vcifl.org.
Times: Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM.
These times are subject to change.
Locations: The locations will vary as we build the 5 different gardens. We will be focused in the Audubon Park area near the Audubon Park Covenant Church at 3219 Chelsea St, Orlando, FL 32803. Hopefully all within a 2-mile radius of here.
Clothing: We will be in the garden doing physical activating including moving mulch and compost, planting seeds, and transplanting plants. Dress as appropriate for this.
Physical Requirements: Be able to push wheelbarrows, shovel mulch, and compost, rake, etc. There is a lot of bending over in the garden. We will be working in the sun.
What to bring: Clothes and shoes that you are comfortable working in and comfortable with getting dirty, water, a hat, sunscreen, and a snack.
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About Volunteers for Community Impact
Location:
3545 Lake Breeze Dr., Orlando, FL 32808, US
Mission Statement
Our mission: "Improving Lives Through Volunteerism."
Description
We are the leading organization for senior volunteerism in the greater Central Florida area, serving Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia counties. Just last year, 1,186 caring adult volunteers gave 438,683 hours of service. That is more than $9.5 million dollars worth of volunteer service being poured back into our communities.
Previously known as Florida Senior Programs, VCI has been the sponsoring agency for the REtired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and Foster Grandparent Programs since 1977. Our 36 year presence has proven our aptitude for providing meaningful and impactful volunteer experiences.
VCI provides membership benefits and support to volunteers aged 55+, at no cost to the volunteers or their volunteer stations. Just a few of the benefits of membership include: Supplemental insurance while volunteering, a dedicated coordinator, and matching to find the perfect position to fit the interest of the volunteer.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Audobon Park areawithin 5 miles of East End MarketOrlando, FL 32803
DATE POSTED
October 19, 2018
SKILLS
- Gardening
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 10
- Orientation or Training
- One / two times per week, from 8:00AM-12:00PM