VOLUNTEERS AT JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES
Jewish Community Services (JCS) renders a diverse range of social work services to the Cape Town Jewish Community. In an attempt to adequately address the needs of the community, the services of volunteers are required. Volunteers for JCS can become involved in a number of projects.
There is a Craft/Art Group for JCS clients, as a means to create a stimulating environment that will promote the mental health of its members by social interaction with others and the exploration of their creative talents. Since March 2010, the group has grown from strength to strength. The Craft/Art group is looking for volunteers who can be involved in various capacities such as general project management and development, shopping for materials, lifting and development of the project to include outings to art exhibitions, organising exhibitions, fund raising etc.
The group is dependent on the donations of materials including paints, canvases, beading materials, stencils, paintbrushes, monetary donations are welcomed. If you have a skill in any of the arts/crafts and are willing to share your skill with the members of the group, your talents will be welcomed. The members are eager to learn new crafts. The group runs once weekly for 2 hours from the JCS Cottages.
Tikvah packs and delivers fresh fruit and vegetables to members of the community who are less fortunate. While there are adequate volunteers for packing, some of them JCS clients wishing to give back, there is an on going need for drivers to deliver these boxes twice a month to the various areas the beneficiaries live in.
Volunteer drivers are also needed to assist with clients getting to appointments with mental health and medical professionals, doing shopping and lifts to state health facilities.
Should any of the above interest you and you are available to assist or wish to make a donation of craft materials, contact Cheryl Neeson at 021 462 5520.
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