Volunteers can meet weekly or several times a semester, depending on the level of commitment. Helps to nourish people that live on the streets with information about where and how they can seek shelter and help for themselves. A family shelter where students spend time with the children who live there. Activities range from tutoring to parties.
Students help to tutor in an inner city after-school program.
We hope not only to tutor and play with the children but to build relationships. Volunteers are asked to make a weekly commitment in order to build trust with and demonstrate interest in individual children. Cook dinner for and share a meal with the residents of Calcutta AIDS Hospice. Work with formerly homeless people to educate shelter residents about their rights and their options. Includes handing out a newsletter and taking surveys of people who live in Philadelphia shelters.