By Staff
ADULTS AND YOUTH
Raising up Healthy Babies and the Berrien County Health Department invite you to participate in the Jam Jar Festival on July 3 at the Curious Kids Museum.
The Jam Jar Festival is a fun way to increase community awareness of how to prevent infant deaths. Volunteers will have their choice of many assignments to ensure a fun and safe day for the families. Volunteers with special skills in the visual and performing arts, or digital photography are also sought. Plan your fun day on the bluffs by contacting the Volunteer Center.
Harbor Country Emergency Food Pantry &Thrift Shop in Three Oaks has a mission to supply people with food and to give financial aid as needed to help them until they can once again be self-supporting. Assistance in maintaining the pantry and shop would be greatly appreciated.
Are you fine tuning your office skills? Are you a whiz at answering the phone or completing clerical tasks?
Would you like to share your talents with an office that is about the business of “mobilizing people and resources to deliver creative solutions to community problems,” since 1977? If you are interested contact the Volunteer Center of Southwest Michigan. Help is needed in the St. Joseph office.
YOUTH
Council for World Class Communities - Bridges for Digital Excellence provides computers and computer training to students and their families in Berrien County. Volunteer opportunities include data entry, teaching basic computer skills, and helping refurbish computers. Sites are in the Niles area, New Buffalo and Benton Harbor.
The Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven provides maritime education through research, collections, preservation and the presentation of Michigan's Great Lakes and waterways history and culture. There is always something new and exciting happening at the Museum. Make history come alive by contacting the Volunteer Center.
The Benton Harbor Children's Art Fair provides access to the arts in all its forms to a diverse population. Do you have an interest in art? Would you like to share this wonderful world with children?
ADULTS
THE BERRIEN COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT manages land and water resources and assists landowners in controlling erosion. Are you a conservationist, but prefer to work indoors? The district office would welcome your assistance in supporting the operation of their field office.
RIVERWOOD CENTER offers an opportunity for parents to learn additional parenting skills through a weekly class to be held this summer in Niles. If you would like to be a volunteer child care worker overseeing the children of class participants on Thursdays from 6-8 p.m., your time would be welcomed.
S-O-S of MADISON CENTER is the rape crisis center located in St. Joseph County, Indiana. Volunteer Advocates provide 24-hour crisis intervention in person at area Emergency Departments and on the phone to victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
The next training for Volunteer Advocates will begin on Thursday, May 25 from 6-9 p.m. and will continue on consecutive Tuesday and Thursday evenings for six weeks. Interested volunteers must first apply to S-O-S before taking the training.
THE BERRIEN COUNTY CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS reports that Berrien County residents use more blood products than we donate. Let's change that! The next Blood drive will be coming to your area soon:
Thursday, May 18 - Buchanan High School, 401 W. Chicago - 8 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.
FAMILIES
Helping Hands in Cassopolis provides Cass County residents with food, clothing, medicine and medical transportation when they have an emergency need. Volunteers must have a willingness to help others regardless of race, creed or reason for need. To find out more about the many opportunities for short term or long term service call the Volunteer Center.
Do you like crowds and fun in the sun? Summer Festivals from all over Southwest Michigan will be calling soon requesting volunteers.
Would you and your family enjoy spending time with a senior adult? Many residents in local facilities do not have family to visit them and would enjoy spending time with you and your children.
Call the Volunteer Center to learn more about this opportunity and to give your children the gift of sharing time with our community elders.
To connect with any of these volunteer opportunties, call the Volunteer Center of Southwest Michigan in Niles at (269) 683-5464.