HOW YOU CAN HELP
VOLUNTEERS THE YDI MENTORING INITIATIVE (Youth Development, Inc.), needs volunteers to mentor children in Albuquerquearea schools for one hour a week by playing board games, helping with homework, shooting hoops, becoming a friend. Schedules are flexible. Volunteers must be at least 15 years of age and pass a background check. Call 212-7346 or email wisemen@ydinm.org EAST MOUNTAIN HOSPICE, LLC, is in need of volunteers. Come join a great team serving the East Mountains and surrounding areas. Call Leah Lemmon at 286-4219 AMBERCARE HOSPICE wants you to volunteer an hour a week to share your time with another person. Hospice volunteers read, take walks, hold a hand or simply listen and provide companionship. Contact Marta Chavez, 244-0046, mchavez@ambercare. com. AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY needs volunteers to help with programs involving patient services, drive patients to and from treatments, and help with community fundraising events. For information call 1-800-227-2345. BETA SIGMA PHI, a women’s service organization benefitting nonprofits such as Barrett House, Joy Junction, NAMI, Ronald McDonald House, Susan Komen Foundation, etc., is open to new member of all ages. For information, call 884-4733. CASA ESPERANZA provides a home away from home for cancer patients and patients receiving extended medical care and their families. The nonprofit agency seeks volunteers to assist its guests with a variety of needs, such as providing meals. Teams from business organizations, civic groups and families are welcome. Call 246-2700 or email info@casanm.org. CIBOLA SEARCH AND
RESCUE seeks volunteers. Training is provided. If interested, visit www. cibolasar.org. GENTIVA HOSPICE needs caring, self-reliant volunteers to visit hospice patients at home or in nursing facilities. Companion volunteers read aloud, play board games or watch television with patients but do not provide nursing or personal care. Training provided. Call Tana Armentrout, 821-5404. DONATIONS
THE RIO GRANDE FOOD
PROJECT, the second largest food pantry in Albuquerque, needs donations of canned goods and other nonperishable food. Items may be dropped off from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Saturday at 600 Coors NW. Call 8313778 or visit www.rgfp.org.
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN RODEO GROUP, a nonprofit that trains youth and adults in animal husbandry, caring for animals and riding for pleasure or in competition, needs monetary donations, office equipment, computers, printers, and kids’ cowboy hats, boots, and saddles. Call 489-7843 or visit www.africanamericanrodeogroup.com.
GREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT
FOR HUMANITY, which builds homes for lowincome families, needs donations of new and used building material, electrical fixtures, appliances, kitchen cabinets, etc. Call 265-0057 or visit www.habitatabq.org.
MDC REQUEST FOR
BOOKS: Chaplain Quinton Fletcher at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), is requesting gently used or new paperback books (no hardbacks are allowed in the facility) for each of the 20 pods. Third grade reading level to books for PhD level inmates. Childrens books, for the books shelf in the lobby and for inmates to read to their children. Religious, educational, classics, science, math, etc. The need for children’s books are minimal compared to need for books for the inmate population. Deliver the books directly to MDC, Attn: Chaplain Quinton Fletcher, 100 Deputy Dean Miera Dr. SW, Albuquerque. Information: 839-8718.
LOVE INC (IN THE NAME
OF CHRIST), which connects people in need with church resources and organizations, is in need of monetary donations. Visit www.loveincabq.org or call 255-5683.
LIFEROOTS, a not-forprofit organization for children and adults with physical, developmental and/or behavioral challenges, seeks donations of musical instruments and art supplies such as paper stock, stickers, watercolors, acrylics, canvas or canvas boards, paint brushes, jewelry wire, beads and mixing trays. Donations may be taken to LifeROOTS, 1111 Menaul NE, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays or mailed to Kathleen Cates at LifeROOTS. Call 255-5501 or www.liferootsnm.org. Events must be open to the public and submitted by 5 p.m. Monday to be considered for Saturday publication. Please send items with contact phone number to lists@ abqjournal.com or mail to Lists, Albuquerque Journal, P.O. Drawer J, Albuquerque, N.M. 87103.