Volunteer at Siena Francis House - 5 people needed

We have signed up to do the dinner service at Siena Francis House as our next service project - we have five slots booked on Tuesday, October 19th, from 4:15 to 6:15 pm.  Family is welcome to come along with you.

Siena Francis House provides nearly 400,000 meals each year. And, we need your help to serve a meal to those experiencing homelessness, daily.

Here's more information on what we will be doing:

This volunteer opportunity assists with needs in the emergency shelter’s kitchen, following safety guidelines that include hand washing, glove use and mask use. Responsibility is to assist our Kitchen Management staff with a variety of meal preparation tasks, which include, although are not limited to:

• Arriving five minutes prior to the start of your volunteer shift.
• Obtaining food items from the pantry and walk-in refrigerator/freezer.
• Organizing food and non-food items in the kitchen, walk-in refrigerator/freezer.
• Opening canned food items, and preparing food items to be used in meals served to clients.
• Helping with dishes and cleaning and organizing the kitchen area.
• Helping close the kitchen – helping with dishes, sweeping, mopping, wiping down countertops, taking out the trash, etc. (afternoon shift only)

While performing the duties of this job, the volunteer is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, lift and/or move up to 20 pounds, and talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit, and reach with hands and arms.