Opportunity Details
Help Arizona's Food Banks In Their Time Of Need (COVID-19 Response)
The food bank network throughout Arizona needs your help now more than ever!
A large amount of food banks' volunteers are elderly or come from corporate volunteer groups. Both of these groups are no longer volunteering due to COVID-19, and understandably so. At the same time, we have seen a huge increase in demand for the services that food banks provide to the most vulnerable in our community due to the Coronavirus. This has left the food bank network hamstrung in a time when food banks need to operate at peak efficiency.
The easiest way to help is to contact a food bank in your local community. Please be sure to call the food bank first to ask what type of help they need, and to ensure they are prepared to accept your help. An online database of food banks can be found here: http://www.azfoodbanks.org/index.php/foodbank/index/
We want to make sure you stay healthy. Here’s what food banks are doing to mitigate risks:
- Limiting the number of people who can volunteer at one time in order to ensure adequate social-distancing space. Please contact a food bank prior to volunteering to confirm capacity.
- Cleaning/sanitizing surfaces thoroughly and more frequently, especially those that can be touched by multiple people.
- Providing hand sanitizer, hand-washing stations, and gloves.
- Encouraging frequent 20-second hand-washing breaks.
- Telling people who are experiencing any symptoms (especially cough, fever, or shortness of breath) to stay home—and sending people home if they appear or become ill.
- Temperature-monitoring of volunteers on the way in the door.
- Limiting food distribution to clients to outdoor/drive-thru models to limit contact.
If you have any questions, please feel free to submit your interest to this posting. Otherwise, please get in contact directly with a food bank in your community to volunteer.
Age Minimum (with Adult): 8+, Minimum Age:8+, Court Ordered Volunteer - Allowed
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