Needs From: Volunteer Houston

Wesley's Food Pantry needs volunteers for our drive-up food pantry to help our Houston neighbors who are in desperate need of food. 

Duties include:

Organize, sort and stock donated food items, including loading and unloading freezers, refrigerators, and shelves. Fill grocery bags with food to take out to client cars. Maintain orderliness and cleanliness of the pantry.

Skills Needed:

The ability to uphold our standards of client confidentiality. The ability to stand, walk, bend and lift up to 30 pounds.

Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays 8:30am-12:30pm: packaging bags, loading bags into clients cars (may require limited outdoor time), restocking, set up and clean up

Tuesdays 8:30am-11:30am: Unloading trucks, stocking shelves, pre-packing grocery bags

Our address is 1235 Lorraine St. Please arrive 10 minutes before your shift. Parking is available on the street, being careful not to block driveways, and enter at the large gate on Gano St. If you are running late for your shift, please call 713-821-8950.

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All gardeners and amateur gardeners welcome! Wesley Community Center is home to the Lorraine Street Gardening Club. The land surrounding our Food Pantry is equipment with 14 garden beds and is also home to a hive of bees to help with pollination. 

We take a central planning approach and garden all plots together, maximizing the plots for the gardeners' benefit and the clients of the pantry. Because of this, we ask that you meet with our lead garden volunteer before beginning planting.

The garden is unique in that half of what we harvest goes to the food pantry to fill the grocery carts of those less fortunate in our community. The other half is split among the gardeners. The garden is open anytime the food pantry is open (9-3 T - S) and maintains a socially distanced garden get together on Saturdays. 

As a Community Outreach Volunteer, you will help coordinate (in conjunction with staff) outreach events and activities including; attending fairs and community events, tabling booths, networking meetings and more to help connect the community with Wesley's services for both external and internal community outreach purposes to communicate the mission and purpose of the organization.

Help identify potential outreach and awareness opportunities Attend community events to represent Wesley and the services we offer Engage community members

 

Location and Time Commitment: Our Wesley office is located in Near Northside of Houston. Opportunities are flexible and can fit around your routine. Time commitment and location is flexible and dependent upon outreach efforts and events.

Skills, Abilities, Knowledge:  

Must present self in a professional manner Ability to work independently or with others to manage multiple tasks with minimal supervision Light physical demands with transporting, setting up and taking down outreach materials, banners, tables, booths and more Ability to speak English and Spanish Must have reliable transportation Excellent oral communication skills and interpersonal skills