• Volunteer Opportunities

    Work in the Warehouse

    Every Saturday morning during the school year, a group of volunteers meet at the Feed The Hungry warehouse, located at the corner of Las Moras and Cinco de Mayo in San Miguel de Allende, from 8 am to 9 am to prepare the dry food stuff for delivery to the kitchens. FTH uses a computer program to allocate food for each kitchen. Every Friday, after the supervisors have completed the inventory of each kitchen, that data is entered into the computer which then prints out a list of what is needed for each specific kitchen. When the warehouse workers arrive, they are given the list for ‘their kitchen’ and they weigh and bag what is required for that particular kitchen for the next week.
    Contact: Duane Eriksmoen 415 - 154 - 6904

    Read our article on the our warehouse volunteers.

    Volunteer to Drive

    Currently, FTH operates 32 kitchens in and around San Miguel de Allende and plans to add five more kitchens before the end of 2008. Each kitchen is supplied weekly with the dry food, fresh produce and cleaning supplies. Drivers pick up ‘their packets’ and deliver both the dry food and the fresh food to their kitchen every Tuesday morning. Some kitchens are located in San Miguel Centro; others are miles away. The Chichimeca kitchen is 54 miles north of San Miguel or a round trip of 108 miles for their driver. Drivers use their own cars and provide their own gas. You can volunteer to drive every Tuesday or to be a ‘back-up’ driver in case a regular driver can’t make it that week.
    Contact: Duane Eriksmoen 415 - 154 - 6904

    Read more about our volunteer drivers here.

    Special Event Volunteers

    Feed The Hungry sponsors several fund-raising events during every calendar year and uses volunteers to help with those events. There is always pre-event work, at the event work and after the event work.
    Feed The Hungry also encourages volunteers to help with public relations, writing stories, taking photos and doing research for granting agencies.
    Contact: Carol Ross 415 - 120 - 0896

    In 2007, FTH calculated the volunteer drivers provided 1,160 hours of service and they drove 33,224 kilometers using their own cars and paying for their own gas. Jean Depperschmidt was voted Outstanding Warehouse Worker.

    The Driver of the Year was Robert Oliveras. This award is given based on a record of responsibility and reliability. Robert only missed one delivery in two years and he even supplied his own substitute the day he couldn’t drive. In addition to outstanding reliability in food delivery, Robert has ”bonded” with the children, cooks, teachers and administration of the village of San Miguel Viejo, providing soccer balls, repairing electrical problems and even replacing a malfunctioning water pump.