**This opportunity is only for YOUTH - 12 Years Old and Under. This does not count as community service hours.
Help bring cheer to a Neighbor's day - right from your home or classroom!! We are seeking Club YEAH (Youth Ending All Hunger) volunteers and their families to create holiday cards for our neighbors who utilize all of our feeding programs, including our senior-based programs. With many of our neighbors left without family, companionship, and joy, especially during the holidays, these holiday cards will be a wonderful gesture to brighten their day as they open their food packages, and poof... there's a handmade holiday greeting waiting for them. Our goal is to have children make at least 2,500 Holiday Cards , which we will hand out to neighbors at all of our distributions throughout the month of December. The cards can be designed and decorated however you choose - add glitter, stickers, puffy shapes, pictures, cut-outs, magazine clips, rolly-eyes, etc. There is no limit on how many cards each youth and their family unit can make.
* Boxes are decorated year-round. However, we group these two activities together during the holiday months.
* Boxes are picked up (and dropped off) from our second warehouse: 480 Central Rd, Fred, VA 22401, during our these hours: Mon-Wed, 8am-3:30pm, and Thur-Fri, 8am -2:30pm.
** Volunteer(s) will provide all holiday card supplies. Each card must be dropped off to Dominique Thomas at Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank by December 15th.
All time spent making the holiday cards must be accounted for. Please make sure you register on our website as a volunteer FIRST (10 yrs and up). For 9 yrs and under, the parent must register and enter the amount of time their youth spent under their volunteer account.
To sign up, log into your volunteer account and go to our volunteer opportunity page. Look for Holiday Card Creations & Decorating Boxes - Club YEAH - Youth Only HOME PROJECT - 12 Years and Under, and Respond/Submit Response and then choose Add/Track Hours, "Holiday Card Creations," and record your total volunteer hours. The time does not have to be exact, and it's easier when done after you work on the cards each time. If an adult helps the child make the cards, both the adult and the child must have separate volunteer accounts.
If you have any questions or need additional guidance, please contact Dominique Thomas at 540-371-7666 Ext. 131.
A smile and a hug expressed in a holiday card are excellent ways to ensure that our neighbors know that we care about them.
** This opportunity does not count towards court-ordered community service hours.
