Volunteer Opportunities / Volunteer Opportunities For Students

Please contact charities directly if your are interested in volunteering. Each charity may have their own age restrictions and rules.

Please email any recommendations for volunteering to jmaldon2@houstonisd.org

The Houston Food Bank

http://www.houstonfoodbank.org/

Minimum age of 8 for volunteering. Volunteers under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult when volunteering.

Kid's Meals

201 Crosstimbers

contact: Ruth Barrel 713-6955437

www.kidsmealshouston.com

Make and deliver brown bag lunches to children all over the city.

Onsite: (or in commercial kitchen) assembly line sandwich making

Offsite: decorate brown lunch bags . The children who receive these lunches really love it when the bags are decorated.

Kids' Meals is a 501(c)3 non profit, community based organization, serving healthy lunches to 1,400 hungry pre-school aged children, living in poverty. We provide and deliver nutritious meals, free of cost to the families, Monday through Friday, year-round.

SEARCH

2505 Fannin, 77002

contact: Joseph Benson 713-739-7752

This is a program for Houston's homeless.

Offsite: assembly of toiletry kits

SEARCH Homeless Services helps thousands of men, women and children each year move from the streets, into jobs and safe, stable housing.

www.searchhomeless.org

Trees for Houston

4550 Post Oak Pl., #310, 77025

contact: Abby Lambert 713-840-8733

www.treesforhouston.org

Trees For Houston is a non-profit organization dedicated to planting, protecting and promoting trees. In our 26 years, we have planted over 378,000 trees to benefit the Houston community. We recognize that trees clean the air, mitigate run off, cool the surroundings, and beautify our neighborhoods.You can help. You can plant, donate, learn, work, and make friends. Houston needs trees. We need you.

A list of volunteer opportunities for youth

http://volunteerhouston.us/kids/hot.htm