Volunteer

Volunteer Opportunities

 

Weekend Meal Deal

Volunteers pack around 120 bags of food for local students. 

First Thursday of every month from 7:30 am - 8 am

Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Thursdays from 8:30 am - 9 am.

Contact Morgan Gold for more info or to confirm dates.

 

Mobile Food Pantries

Volunteers go car to car and register the neighbors from each car, help with traffic control, and distribute food from the food truck into neighbors' cars. 

Traffic control is needed from 8:30 am - 12:30 pm, Registration from 11 am - 12:30 pm , and food distribution from 11 am - 12:30 pm. 

Dates and locations of upcoming mobile food pantries:

Date Location Address City
1/10/2024 Base - Grissom The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive Peru
1/24/2024 Loree Church 8483 S. Strawtown Pike Bunker Hill
2/14/2024 Base - Grissom The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive Peru
2/28/2024 Parkview UMC 1785 State Rd. 19 Peru
3/13/2024 Base - Grissom The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive Peru
3/27/2024 East Point Bible Church 1540 E Paw Paw Pike Peru
4/10/2024 Base - Grissom The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive Peru
4/24/2024 Bunker Hill Free Will Church 279 W Broadway Street Bunker Hill
5/8/2024 Base - Grissom The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive Peru
5/22/2024 Community Church of Mexico 4088 N Carroll Street Mexico
6/12/2024 Base - Grissom The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive Peru
6/26/2024 Main Street UMC 81 W Main Street Peru
7/10/2024 Base - Grissom The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive Peru
7/24/2024 Denver Baptist Church 111 N Yorick Street Denver
8/14/2024 Base - Grissom The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive Peru
8/28/2024 St. Charles Church 4088 N Carroll Street Mexico
9/11/2024 Base - Grissom The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive Peru
9/25/2024 Parkview UMC (First Baptist) 1785 State Rd. 19 Peru
10/9/2024 Base - Grissom The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive Peru
10/23/2024 East Point Bible Church 1540 E Paw Paw Pike Peru
11/13/2024 Base - Grissom The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive Peru
11/27/2024 Amboy Friends Church 110 E Pennsylvania Street Amboy
12/4/2024 Base - Grissom The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive Peru
12/18/2024 Mexico Brethren Church 4460 N Mexico Rd. Mexico

 

Contact Morgan Gold for more info. 

 

Plarn (Plastic Yarn Crocheting)

United Way received a grant from NIPSCO Charitable Foundation that will help provide additional comfort to our neighbors experiencing homelessness. 

Our Mission is to straighten and cut plastic bags and crochet mats made of PLARN (plastic yarn) and help our local homeless population. You can help by collecting plastic bags and cutting and crocheting bags. The United Way will provide everyone who joins the initiative with a cutting board, scissors, crochet needles, and a bag.

(Meeting the first Thursday of every month at Community Resource Center from 4:30 – 6:30 pm)

It takes seven hundred plastic bags; start collecting now!

A tutorial video is available to watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUVLsWA1b8Y.

If you want to donate plastic bags or PLARN to the United Way Sleeping Mats for our homeless neighbors, you can drop them at the Community Resource Center, 13 E Main Street, Peru.