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Click here to visit the United Way Volunteer Center for many ongoing family volunteer opportunities! Click here for BRAVO! Stories from AlbemarleFamily celebrating the good in our community.  * Walk your favorite trail with a bag and collect trash. * Organize a neighborhood drive for food, blood, furniture, toiletries, whatever is needed. * Collect books to be distributed to kids and families who might not otherwise have them. * Write letters for people living at a nursing home who might have arthritis in their hands. * Work with the police to organize a neighborhood safety watch. * Make a food basket for someone in need. * Host a volunteer planning meeting. * Install door locks, drill peepholes, and improve home safety for seniors and disabled people in your neighborhood. * Hold a story hour and read to children in your neighborhood. * Clean up a local park and plant a tree or some flowers * Be a homework helper in an after-school program. * Assemble and deliver personal care kits to an area shelter (toothpaste, soap, combs, etc.) * Do yard work for a sick or elderly neighbor. * Start a public awareness campaign for a cause you believe in. * Organize a community "closet cleaning" day/week and donate old clothes, furniture and other items to a homeless shelter or other organization. * Spruce up a baseball diamond by painting the dugout and fence and pulling weeds. * Visit an animal shelter and help to bathe animals and clean their homes. * Help out a low income neighborhood by repairing, painting, pulling weeds, removing trash, and planting flowers in their playground. * Paint, clean, wash windows, etc. at a local school or chapel. * Play games, make popcorn, and visit residents at a local nursing home. * Volunteer at a dance or other special event for people with disabilities. * Be a family to family mentor. * Take a homebound friend out to eat and to run errands. * Be a foster family or host a summer guest through programs such as "Fresh Air". * Make cards or letters to military personnel that are stationed out of the country. * Collect teddy bears and suitcases for foster children. * Be a reading and literacy tutor at the library. * Bake sweets and give them to someone who needs a special gift. * Distribute water at a city festival or other event. * Visit patients in the hospital and help deliver mail and flowers or bring coloring pages and crosswords to share. * Read to someone with a visual impairment - perhaps an elderly neighbor misses the newspaper because the type is too small.
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