Volunteer
Volunteers are needed to work in friendship with Edmonton’s inner city seniors. Volunteer opportunities include:
- Friendly visiting
- Serve meals in the Drop-In Centre
- Sponsor a meal
- Gardening and yard work
- Recreation support
- Light labor and maintenance
- Sewing and knitting
- Arts and crafts
For more information on how you can help, contact Jimmy our Community Relations Supervisor at (780) 408-2958 or via email at jimmym@ofss.org
Donations
Donations go a long way in the inner city. Here’s what your donation can do:
- Buy bus tickets
- Fill the gas tank of the Helping Hands Van
- Sponsor breakfast for 75 seniors
- Sponsor lunch for 90 seniors
- Sponsor supper for 125 seniors
Drop-in center
Our Drop-In Centre and various sites are always looking for certain items to help keep our seniors warm and dry. Please consider donating:
- Toques
- Mitts
- Gloves
- Scarves
- Winter coats (mens)
- Jeans & hoodies (mens)
- Thermal underwear
- Underwear
- Socks
- Backpacks (knapsacks)
- Blankets
- Winter boots
- Towels
- Toiletries (razors, shaving cream, toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner and soap)
- Coffee
- Due to a shortage of meat donations… we need – meat, ground beef, beef, pork, chicken & luncheon meat.
For more information on the Drop-In Centre, or to find out how you can help, call (780) 429-2626.
