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Volunteer Opportunities--Hey, it's your world...change it!

Habitat for Humanity--Orange County--(714) 434-6200.  This organization accepts volunteers who are 16 years or older to help build houses in Orange County.  They have volunteer orientations the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at 480 S. Batavia in Orange.  (call first)

Orange County Food Bank--Multiple locations (714) 897-6670.  This organization needs volunteers 14 years and older to help box food for low-income mothers and their young children, and senior citizens on fixed incomes.  Call for more information.

Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County--Orange (714) 771-1343.  This organization needs volunteers 15 years and older to help sort and pack food at their warehouse on Saturdays from 9 a.m.-12 or 1 p.m. to 4.  They also have food drives throughout the year, and a Kids Cafe program that provides meals to low income children at nine site in Orange County.

THINK Together--Orange (714) 543-3807.  This organization provides tutoring for at risk youth in multiple arreas of Orange County that are impoverished.  They are looking for weekly volunteers to hlep tutor the children and sever as role models for them.

HIS House Transitional Center--Placentia (714) 993-5774.  HIS House provides shelter for individuals an families while they develop a source of permanent income and save money for permanent housing.  They need volunteers who are 15 years or older.

American Red Cross--(714) 245-2610.  The American Red Cross, Blood Services Program, needs volunteers to greet donors, assist donors in filling out registration forms, take medical histories, provide customer service, set up and maintain canteen area, disseminate information, and to help promote quality public relations.  Volunteers 15 years and older are welcome.

Salvation Army--Santa Ana (714) 832-7100.  The Salvation Army has a Christmas warehouse program for which they need volunteers to pack and sort food and toys that will be distributed to need families for Christmas.  Call around three weeks before Christmas and talk to the Volunteer Program Manager, Darlene Palermo.

 

All of the organizations listed below operate in Orange County and almost all provide services to youths.  If you have an interest in helping out the youth of Orange County,  give them a call at the phone number provided and ask how you may volunteer.  Whether your interests, talents, and  gifts, are in the arts, sciences, or in social areas, there are sure to be opportunities here for you: