Joseph House Food Drive

Hi.

Volunteers are needed in the Camden neighborhood area to participate in this year's annual Joseph House Food Drive.

For those of you not familiar with how the drive works, volunteers walk the neighborhoods about a week before the canned goods collection, placing plastic collection bags and a flyer at each house on the street. On the day of the drive, those volunteers revisit those streets, collecting the canned goods in the bags that have been placed on porches, then take them to the central collection area, which has been the parking lot at the Civic Center in past years.

It's easy! It's something that a family with kids can have fun with, distributing the bags, then collecting the filled ones. It's also a program with a great history, collecting literally tons of canned goods annually for those who are served by Joseph House's programs.

My children and I (and some of their friends) in past years have had the opportunity to serve our community in this charitable drive. We had a great time doing it as a family outing, spending the Saturday morning doing our collections, then spending the rest of the day together doing other fun stuff. For those kids with public service requirements for school, it's a really great, healthy and easy way to knock off a few of those hours. Certificates of volunteer hours completed are given to anyone who needs them.

If you're interested (and I hope that you might be) contact Bev Ward for the details.



Beverly Ward
Wicomico Partnership for Families and Children
540 Riverside Drive - Suite 13
Salisbury, MD 21801
410-546-5400 x104
410-546-3100 fax
bward@wicomicocounty.org

Thanks for your time and help.

Tim Spies