thoreau

as many of you know (or might not know) I have been volunteering at the Legion of Honor Museum in Golden Gate Park. I've been frustrated with my lack of shifts - because I only have been put on one shift a month - because there are so many 'retired' folks on their list that have unlimited availability and other factors. It's hard to fit "only saturdays and sundays" into their schedule - apparently because well... other folks with way more time on the list - ask for those shifts. I am really driven to volunteer other places.

I have been pondering burning some air-miles and going and working Thanksgiving kitchens in New Orleans feeding the folks stilllll in trailers after katrina and have been thinking that perhaps I should volunteer in local homeless shelters as well.

Tommy suggested Glide Memorial or the Episcopal Shelter. But my brain first went to volunteering at Project Open Hand.

Project Open Hand has been providing Meals with Love to people living with HIV/AIDS in San Francisco since 1985. The first grassroots nutrition program in response to the AIDS crisis, Project Open Hand's program of nutrition services has been replicated by hundreds of organizations around the country and the world.

They are looking for help in their kitchens with food prep. :)

Food preparation such as, but not limited to, chopping, slicing, dicing, peeling, grating, and/or mincing of vegetables for the kitchen chefs.
Labeling meal containers for delivery.
Packing prepared hot meals in containers.
Packing desserts for delivery routes.
Packing frozen meals in groups of seven for delivery.

so - it looks like I'll be heading to their Polk Street offices next Wednesday for a volunteer orientation meeting.