Volunteers are needed in our community - Jan. 11, 2016

Good morning Prince William – The Annual Nationwide Point in Time Count of the Homeless population is January 27th here in our community.  The wonderful folks at Streetlight Ministries are preparing care packages for the homeless and need volunteers to assemble them. They also need donations. Please call Gabriele or Rose at (703) 491-2288 to volunteer.

Retired and Senior Volunteer program is looking for volunteers’ age 55+ to play disaster jeopardy or bingo with residents of senior living facilities to better prepare them for weather or other disaster event.  We need many Vanna and Pat teams for this fun project.  Please call Coleen at (571) 292-5307 to learn more.

VA Department of Environmental Quality invites people to its next Stream Monitoring event on January 16th at noon at Evergreen Acres Farm in Nokesville.  This is a great learning experience and a way to connect to all the good work of the DEQ.  Please call Veronica at (571) 379-7514 to learn more.

Keep Prince William Beautiful is looking for volunteers for a clean-up event on Saturday January 23rd from 10am-2pm in Lake Ridge.  Please email Claudia at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for all the specifics.

Habitat for Humanity needs volunteers to get the brand new ReStore ready to go as well as the current location.  Tasks include getting donations on the floor- especially all the holiday decorations.  Please visit habitatpwc.org for all the specifics and to register for any of these fun events or email Tammy at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

If you are looking for other opportunities, please don’t forget to call my wonderful team at Volunteer Prince William.  Coleen can help you with the Retired and Senior Volunteer (RSVP) opportunities at (703) 369-5292 ext. 1, Shelley can help with any individual or group project and send you weekly updates if you’d like.  Shelley is at (703) 369-5292 ext. 0, and Bonnie can help you with opportunities available in Disaster Preparedness at (703) 369-5292 ext. 3.  Please visit http://www.volunteerprincewilliam.org  Than.ks so much for all you do in our community.