Volunteer Opportunities

Weekend Meal Deal

Volunteers pack around 120 bags of food for local students. We use an assembly line system and volunteers will need to lift up to 5 pounds.

Every Thursday from 7:30 am - 8 am

Contact Morgan Gold for more info or to confirm dates.

Mobile Food Pantries

Volunteers go car to car and register the neighbors from each car, help with traffic control, and distribute food from the food truck into neighbors' cars. 

Traffic control is needed from 8:30 am - 12:30 pm, Registration from 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, and food distribution from 11 am - 12:30 pm. 

Dates and locations of upcoming mobile food pantries:

Contact Morgan Gold for more info. 

Plarn (Plastic Yarn Crocheting)

United Way received a grant from NIPSCO Charitable Foundation that will help provide additional comfort to our neighbors experiencing homelessness. 

Our Mission is to straighten and cut plastic bags and crochet mats made of PLARN (plastic yarn) and help our local homeless population. You can help by collecting plastic bags and cutting and crocheting bags. The United Way will provide everyone who joins the initiative with a cutting board, scissors, crochet needles, and a bag.

(Meeting the first Thursday of every month at Community Resource Center from 4:30 – 6:30 pm)

It takes seven hundred plastic bags; start collecting now!

A tutorial video is available to watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUVLsWA1b8Y.

If you want to donate plastic bags or PLARN to the United Way Sleeping Mats for our homeless neighbors, you can drop them at the Community Resource Center, 13 E Main Street, Peru.