Service Opportunities

Helping Hands will take on many service opportunities throughout the year. Some of these will be group based during our meetings after school, some will be off site on weekends, and others will be service opportunities for families at home.

We hope to have an off site service event scheduled soon, but we have other ways you and your child can get involved now!

• Pop Tabs - We started a collection drive last year for pop tabs. Our collection is getting very large and we will be donating them to the Kansas City Ronald McDonald House Charities very soon. This will not stop us! The pop tabs are recycled and used to fund the local RMC houses. This is just a small way we can show our support for the great things they do to support families striving to take care of their hospitalized children.

• Harvesters - We are scheduled to volunteer at Harvesters in Kansas City on Saturday, January 24th from 10 am  to noon. This was the first Saturday date they had available. You can sign up for their service event by clicking on the VolunteerSpot link to the left of this post. Families are welcome, but all volunteers must be 5 years old or older. 

• Hope House - This is an opportunity for your child to start a drive on their own. Hope House, a local shelter supporting victims of domestic violence have a list of needs posted to their website. Encourage your child to start a drive on their own to help collect any of these items listed. We can arrange transport of the items to the shelter. We will collect items all year. For an updated list of items in need, you can visit their website at http://www.hopehouse.net/donate-items-hope-house.

We are always looking for more service events for our club members and families. Please email me if you have connections to a local event and/or charity. 

Welcome!

We are so happy to kick off a new year with a new bunch of volunteers. This site is where you will be able to sign up your child for service events. 

This year, we have close to 40 members! This is significantly higher than last year. VolunteerSpot will allow parents to sign up their child for events as well as allow us to limit the number if needed. We will do our best to schedule events in which everyone can participate! 

Please return your child's T-shirt orders by next Friday. Additional shirts are available at $5 a piece. Members shirts are included within the dues. 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me!

New Year about to Launch!

Applications for the 2014-2015 team of Helping Hands are out and due by Wednesday. Our first meeting will be this Thursday at 3:45. Mrs. K. Brown and Mrs. Woodin are planning to serve as leaders as well! I am looking forward to a great year of service with a fantastic group of young volunteers. 

Pop Tab Pandemonium

This year, Helping Hands helped launch a collection drive for pop tabs to benefit the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City. There is a special event, Pop Tab Pandemonium, scheduled for Saturday, May 10th at the Longfellow House by Children's Mercy Hospital. While the volunteer opportunities were filled, we have been invited to come as visitors to donate our pop tabs and take a tour of the house. We have also been added as potential volunteers in next year's event. The carnival-like event is FREE and promises to be a great day.

For more information, check out the VolunteerSpot link on the top left of our blog.

Harvesters

Thank you to all of the volunteers that came and helped us at Harvesters today! Our job today was to box up bread items that will be delivered to several distributors in the Kansas City area. The families helped tape boxes, sort the bread, label the boxes, and stack them on the large pallets. We were busy little workers, but were able to box up all of the bread they had laid out for us. The kids are already asking when we can go back!

Easter Egg Hunt Pictures

Easter Egg Hunt