Help Jeffco Eats provide non-perishable food to families in our community facing financial challenges and food insecurity. We need up to 20 HEALTHY people every Friday to help with the following activities:

•       pack doubled grocery bags with 7-9 items; up to 700 per week

•       Set up tables that will be used for packing

•       Help move food we are packing from our storage room to the pack room

•       open packaging, break down boxes  

•       vacuum floors and wipe tables before and after  

•       Moving all empty bins down to the packing area

•       Rearrange food within our storage place

•       Repacking new bins back into the storage place that the packers packed that morning; up to 700 per week is packed

•       Unloading our 14-FT U-Haul truck that comes from the Food Bank of the Rockies every week with cases of non-perishable food; enough to pack 900 bags

We encourage all ages and abilities to volunteer in the areas they feel most comfortable in. The max weight to lift or carry when unloading the truck or moving food is 50 pounds using lifting safety methods and equipment such as dollies and wagons. We meet every Friday at Lakewood United Methodist Church at 1390 Brentwood St, Lakewood, CO 80214 from 9a-12p. Parking is free and ample. Small groups and older children are welcome with an adult. We pack inside in a large room, but we observe social-distancing guidelines.

**If you have had COVID exposure in the last FIVE DAYS, we ask that you stay home.** Please bring your own mask, or we will provide you with one! Gloves will be provided. Wear casual/comfy work clothes, closed-toed shoes are recommended. NOTE: Temperatures will be taken. If you sign up and become ill, please stay home and contact/text Sierra Baumbach immediately so a replacement can be found: 720-663-1091

Groups are welcome! Please contact/text Sierra, Volunteer Coordinator at 720-663-1091;sierrabaumbach.jeffcoeats@gmail.com to reserve a specific date, especially if your group would like to reserve all the slots for that day.

*We require all volunteers to sign up through the Helping Habit website each week to track volunteer hours and COVID practices.*

 We are currently only certifying community/school hours, we have not been approved to certify court ordered hours.