Project Recycle: Barbara Chambers Children's Center

 

Are you a people person? Do you enjoy talking to complete strangers? Barbara Chambers Children's Center is seeking social-butterflies to assist them with a new project. 

 

Barbara Chambers Children's Center are hosting a Recycling Drive. They are collecting a number of used electronic items such as old cell phones, digital cameras, GPS's, etc. The Center seeks volunteers to be outposted at various locations throughout Washington, DC. Locations vary, and they are able to place volunteers where they feel most comfortable. They will provide you with a table and chair to sit, collect items, pass out flyers, talk to people, explain the program, etc. They encourage volunteers to outpost in their own neighborhoods where they know familiar faces and surroundings. 

 

The Center also needs volunteers to stand in front of the Center in Columbia Heights to remind people that donations are also accepted there. Volunteers may also be asked to canvass the neighborhoods (ONLY if they are comfortable in doing so) to ask community members to donate their used items. Volunteers who have relationships with churches in Washington DC are invited to perform outreach and ask people to donate their used items. Volunteers may be asked to stand by or inside the Metro stations to remind the public of our program. 

 

The Center would like volunteers to encourage people to donate their used items. Even if you are unable to donate time, but just happen to have a lot of techie-friends, you could still help to collect these items without actually being out in the community.

 

Note: If you volunteer with an adult, you only need to be 12 years old or older. If you volunteer by yourself, you need to be at least 18 years old.  

 

For more information, check out their website:

Barbara Chambers Children's Center http://www.barbarachambers.org


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