Needs From: University of the Pacific Volunteer Center

The Kitchen Assistant will help St Mary's staff with washing and cutting meats and vegetables. They will help with wiping down all hard surfaces and sweeping and mopping the floors. Washing dishes and putting them away. Serving our guests on the line, putting away the leftovers and prepping meals for the next day. 

The Volunteer will help staff facilitate showers by helping guests pick their items, covering showers, hanging up donated clothes, cleaning and sanitizing the bathrooms and showers. 

The Volunteer will help the Warehouse Staff with receiving donations and sorting through them. We receive donation on a regular basis from the public and we have a driver who picks up items as well. The Volunteer will go through the bags or bins and ensure that there are no pet hairs and or dander, bugs, or foreign matter. The items are then placed in bags and are placed in the appropriate area of the warehouse for the departments to come and get them to put into service for the guests. 

We are looking to fill some spots in the evening on weekdays and weekends in the kitchen. Volunteers would be helping to serve dinner and prepping meals for the next day and putting all the left over foods away and cleaning the kitchen before the kitchen is closed for the day. Dinner is served from 4:30 until 5:30 and clean up until 6 pm. We greatly appreciate all the help from our volunteers. 

The Dining Room Assistant helps facilitate serving our Guests their meals and the clean up afterwards. Senior Citizens, single mothers with children and mobility impaired guests are brought into the dining room first to sit. Once they are ready to start, they are served and the remaining guests are brought in and lined up to get their trays to sit and eat their meals. Once they are done eating the staff and volunteers take up to the window for cleaning and the staff will wipe down the tables and clean the floors. 

They also help the kitchen staff in between meals with whatever tasks may need to get done. Some examples are rolling forks and spoons into napkins for easier serving, cleaning the windows, wiping down chairs, filling up the drink carts. 

The Volunteer in the men's department will help staff give the men their clothes for their showers. They will ask the guest for their sizes and give them some options with a towel and hygiene to shower with. Once showers is over, they will help clean and sanitize the bathrooms and showers as well as refill the shelves and racks with clothes from the donation warehouse.