Parents: Here is your best chance of getting those last few hours of community service. Call early for the best opportunities. These are opportunities for kids twelve and older.
Here is the guide for volunteer opportunities during Spring Break.
Registration begins Friday, February 13, 2009, at 8 a.m.
A guide for volunteer opportunities during Spring Break.
Youth Days of Caring 2009
Who: You and other young people
What: Making a difference in the community
When: Spring Break, March 16 - 20, 2009
Where: Nonprofit agencies in and around Wichita
Why: Because our community needs you
Thank you for your interest in Youth Days of Caring 2009. To participate, simply:
1. Select your three favorite projects from this booklet.
2. Starting at 8 a.m. on Friday, February 13, register for your project(s) by calling 267-0202. Please provide: your full name, date of birth, home address, phone number, project(s), and project days/shifts that you want to volunteer.
3. A permission/release form will be mailed to you. You and your parent/guardian MUST sign this form and return it by Tuesday,March 10, in order to participate.
4. If you are volunteering as part of a group (e.g., church, temple, scout, school) you MUST sign this form and return it by Thursday,March 5, in order to participate.
5. After returning your release form, you may pick up your free T-shirt at United Way of the Plains office between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday - Friday, at 245 North Water.
6. You need to have your own transportation to and from agencies.
7. Please wear your T-shirt when you volunteer during Youth Days of Caring.
Derby Senior Activity Center
To contribute and be sensitive to the social, health, educational, nutritional,
physical, spiritual, recreational and intellectual well being and advocacy of it’s
patrons.
Project: Cleaning and dusting furniture and shelves; washing windows,
cleaning out cupboards, vacuuming and other miscellaneous tasks.
Address: 611 North Mulberry Road, Derby Date: Friday, March 20
Time: 1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Number of volunteers needed: 10
Minimum age: 12
Downtown Day Care Center
To provide a safe, educationally enriched environment for children at an
affordable cost to families from diverse financial backgrounds.
Project: Moving sand on the playground, painting lines on the sidewalk and
cleaning up the break room for teachers. Address: 944 S. Topeka
Date: Monday, March 16; Wednesday, March 18 & Friday, March 20
Time: 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Number of volunteers needed: 10 per day
Minimum age: 12
His Helping Hands
To manage and coordinate the necessary resources and activities that will
enable Central Christian Church and it’s partners in ministry to assist people in
the local community who struggle with basic physical and life needs by sharing
with them material goods that God has provided through the generosity of good
people.
Project: Sort and hang clothes, sort and organize houseware items and
organize warehouse.Address: 1441 E. 37th St. N.
Date: Monday, March 16; Wednesday, March 18 & Friday, March 20
Time: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Number of volunteers needed: 10-15 per shift
Minimum age: 12
Please bring a sack lunch if working all day.
Old Cowtown Museum
Old Cowtown Museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving and
presenting the history of Wichita & Sedgwick County, Kansas from 1865 - 1880.
Project: Projects may include picking up trash, clearing fields and pasture of
debris, brush removal, cleaning windows, sweeping floors and other
miscellaneous tasks. Address: 1865 W. Museum Blvd.
Date: Tuesday, March 17; Wednesday, March 18;Thursday, March 19 & Friday, March 20 Time: 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Number of volunteers needed: 5-10 per day
Minimum age: 12
Please bring a sack lunch. Bring work gloves, no flip flops/sandals.
Sedgwick County Department on Aging – RSVP
To be the recognized leader in a collaborative effort towards assisting diverse
populations of older adults and persons with physical disabilities to maintain
their choice of lifestyles through education, advocacy and services.
Project: Assist staff with mailings.
Address: 525 N. Broadway, First Presbyterian Church; 3rd floor
Date: Monday, March 16; Tuesday, March 17; Wednesday, March 18;
Thursday, March 19 & Friday, March 20
Time: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Number of volunteers needed: 5 per day
Minimum age: 12
Please bring a sack lunch.
Starkey, Inc.
To help persons with development disabilities to live, learn, work and contribute
to their communities throughout Sedgwick County.
Project: Light landscaping projects, washing windows at main facilities,
cleaning inside vehicles, general clerical (new hire packets) and filing.
Address: 4500 West Maple
Date: Tuesday, March 17; Wednesday, March 18 & Thursday, March 19
Time: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Number of volunteers needed: 8 per shift
Minimum age: 12
Trees for Life
To enable people around the world to help plant fruit trees in developing
countries. Each tree protects the environment and provides a low-cost, selfrenewing
source of food for a large number of people.
Project #1: Help sort and box up books to be sent to the Ethiopia Reads Library
in Africa. Some computer data entry may be done, too.
Address: 3006 West St. Louis
Date: Monday, March 16; Tuesday, March 17; Wednesday, March 18;
Thursday, March 19 & Friday, March 20
Time: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. / 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Number of volunteers needed: 8 per shift
Minimum age: 12
Lunch is provided if working both shifts.
Project #2: Help with light to medium gardening duties such as mending fence,
turning compost bin, mowing grass, clearing old growth and trash from property,
etc.
Address: 3006 West St. Louis
Date: Thursday, March 19 & Friday, March 20
Time: 1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Number of volunteers needed: 6, plus chaperone
Minimum age: 12
Youth Horizons, Inc.
To empower youth and their families to become healthy and productive
members of our community and to create a nationwide awareness of the needs
of at-risk youth.
Project: Volunteers will assemble mailers/fliers for the upcoming Easter SunRun
fundraiser.
Address: 1601 E. Douglas Date: Monday, March 16 Time: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Number of volunteers needed: 8
Minimum age: 12
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