The Meals on Wheels for WNY the area’s largest provided of daily home-delivered means for 1600 homebound elderly and disabled people, is sending out an urgent plea for volunteers to join the organization.
Since there is such a volunteer shortage in the City of Buffalo, those in need of the meals are on a waiting list. Volunteering only involves one hour per delivery day. No special skills are needed and training is given to those interested.
Many New Yorkers have inadequate diets because of hunger and malnutrition and this problem has been increasing during the past 10 years.
To join or more information call 822-2002 or visit click on this link - Meals on Wheels.
Posted February 19, 2008 in Volunteering
Messinger Woods Wildlife Care and Education Center Looking for Volunteers. Please click on their website for more information.
Volunteers and Power to End Stroke (PTES) Ambassadors are needed to assist with Community education during events for Black history month. We hope that you might have a few hours out of your day to provide health education in several venues for the month of February. We will have all of the materials prepared for you, it’s fun and a great opportunity to share your passion for better health!
If you are interested please contact Rose Stephan at 614-1986.
Saturday Feb.9
Heart Beat 08 - 3 volunteers needed
Delavan/Grider Community Center
Task: Present PTES and pledge card signing
Saturday Feb. 23
“Taste of Soul” Collaboration with the Buffalo Urban League
Two volunteers needed
11am- 3pm
Tasks:
Pledge card signing
Handing out Soul Food Cookbooks
Talking to people about healthy food choices
Saturday Feb. 16
Black History Month Tops Market, Niagara Falls, Portage Ave:
2 Volunteers needed
Tasks: PTES pledge card and education
February 23 at 2:00 PM
African Cultural Center sponsored by Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center NFMMC
2 volunteers needed
A program for Black History Month will be held at the Niagara Arts and Cultural Center across from the Hospital.
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM and service providers will set up from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM,
Saturday March 1, 11:00am- 5pm
Block Club retreat CPR training
2 volunteers needed
Hilton Garden Hotel, Genesee St.
Task: assist with training
Saturday March 8
Mzuri presents Fanny Mae Hamer story event
3 volunteers needed
Niagara Falls- Crown Plaza 11:00am-2:00pm
Task: to assist with PTES LIVE presentation and table
Saturday March 8
Mzuri presents Fanny Mae Hamer story event
3 volunteers needed
Hearth Stone Manner
5:00PM- 7:00PM
Task: assist with PTES LIVE presentation and table
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association
Roseanne Stephan, Cultural Health Director
20 Northpointe Pkwy. Suite 130
Amherst, NY 14228
(716) 614-1986 voice
(716) 564-1101 fax
roseanne.stephan@heart.org
This message is from Jennifer Stabel, president of APMS
Our next meeting is Wed Feb 20 at 5:00PM in NSC 201
TOPIC: “My Road to Medical School and Beyond”
SPEAKER: Dr. James Reynolds, Professor and Chair- Department of Ophthalmology
There will be food and refreshments!
Our shadowing program applications and evaluations will soon be online! Until we work out all of the bugs, please continue to submit them on paper to the filing cabinet in Norton 108. Remember, you must submit an evaluation to receive a shadowing certificate.
Would you like to help make dinner at Ronald McDonald House? We are going Sat Feb 16th and it should last from 2-5 PM. Contact jstabel@buffalo.edu if you would like to sign up. Also let me know if you need or can provide a ride for another student.
If there is any one who speaks the language of Cambodia or knows of someone, please contact Isidore Dinga Madou at id@buffalo.edu. Translation services are needed to assist in caring for an individual traveling to the Buffalo area for medical care.
If you are considering international volunteer/service opportunities, please review this list as well as previous lists posted on this blog under Health Relevant Experience. You can just click on the words to access the links.
UB does not directly endorse any programs and interested students should thoroughly research any programs before deciding to participate.
Prague Selective
Uganda Village Project
Medical Spanish/International Health Course
Roca Blanca Missions in Mexico
Global Health Education Consortium
World Health Organization
This message is from Parvati Dundee at the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Preparations are now underway for MDA Camp 2008.
We will start camp on Sunday, June 29th at 11am and go until Thursday, July 3, until 12 noon (Counselors will clean up and stay until 4pm). The Counselor Orientation is on one day only - Saturday, June 28 (from 12 noon on).
Please take the time respond regarding any of the following possibilities:
1. If you are interested, please fill out an Interest Form located in 108 Norton beginning January 14 and return it to Parvati Dundee (see below) or email that information at pdundee@mdausa.org. Please respond by January 31, 2008.
The copies of the Counselor Application is also available in 108 Norton beginning January 14. Then fill it out and mail it to Parvati in the Rochester office. The deadline to receive applications from returning counselors is March 7, 2008.
2. If you are interested, but are waiting to find out about your summer schedule, please let Parvati know that as well. Send back the Interest Form with your information.
3. If you are interested and have a date conflict, email her and let her know and maybe she may be able to work around it. Thank you for any interest in participating in MDA Camp.
Parvati Dundee
Muscular Dystrophy Association
1425 Jefferson Road, 2nd Floor
Rochester, New York, 14623
Ph: 585/424-6560
Fx: 585/424-1446
Email: pdundee@mdausa.org
www.mda.org
Volunteers Sought
The WNY Alzheimer’s Association is seeking volunteers in the Cheektowaga, Hamburg, Lockport, Niagara Falls, Lewiston, Amherst, Getzville and Kenmore areas for their Association’s Companion Care Program.
The Association Companion Care Program pairs individuals and allows those with dementia to have meaningful social interaction with volunteers while the caregiver can have time to run errands, go to lunch, take a nap or do whatever they would like or need to do. Volunteers can give a minimum of two hours a month or as much as two hours per week. The Association arranges the client’s volunteer meetings around the volunteer’s schedule.
Previous knowledge or experience with a person affected by dementia is a plus. Call the Alzheimer’s Assoc at 626-0600 or 1-800-272-3900 or email Julie Schoenecker at Julie.Schoenecker@alz.org.
UB does not directly endorse any programs and interested students should thoroughly research any programs before deciding to participate.
Currently accepting applications for January 2008 through December 2008. Rolling application deadline - the first qualified applicants are accepted.
Volunteer Abroad With Unite For Sight in fall, winter, spring, and summer
Make A Difference!
Those who are blind in Africa have a four times higher mortality rate
60-80% of children who become blind die within 1-2 years
80% of blindness is curable or preventable
How Do I Apply? For the application as well as complete details about Unite For Sight’s international opportunities click on the link.
What is Unite For Sight’s Mission?
Unite For Sight is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness. Unite For Sight’s work to prevent blindness and restore sight is featured weekly on CNN INTERNATIONAL from September 2007-August 2008
What Do Volunteers Do?
The goal of Unite For Sight and its partner eye clinics and communities is to create eye disease-free communities. Unite For Sight’s volunteers (local and visiting) work with partner eye clinics to provide eye care in communities without previous access. Visiting volunteers from North America range from undergraduate and medical students, educators, nurses, and public health professionals to optometrists and ophthalmologists. The eye clinic’s eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers jointly provide community-based screening programs in rural villages. The clinic’s eye doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinic for surgery. Patients receive free surgery funded by Unite For Sight so that no patient remains blind due to lack of funds
Who Is Eligible to Participate?
The Unite For Sight internship is open to individuals 18 years and older, and there is no upper age limit. Volunteers range from undergraduate students to medical students, public health students and professionals, nurses, educators, optometrists and ophthalmologists.
UB does not directly endorse any programs and students are advised to thoroughly research any programs before deciding to participate.
Many national summer internship and research opportunities begin to post announcements in Dec-Feb. Please check the listserv as well as this “Prehealth Bulletin”. Please also consider looking at the category – “Summer Opportunities” on the right side of the “Bulletin” and look at past postings. Many programs from last year will be conducted again for the summer of 2008, but the programs may have not yet updated their site. Continue to the look at future “Bulletin” announcements or go directly to the site noted for updated information for 2008.
United Way
You can search nationally under the United Way site . Simply type in your zip code to get to specific regional United Way sites. This is an excellent way to begin your search and you will find that volunteers are needed in multiple contexts of life; your help is needed.
Other Summer Resources
Please check the following website for a state by state listing of other summer opportunities.
You may need to check with some of the programs to see if eligibility requirements have changed or if they are still in existence. Be sure to pan down all the way to the bottom past the state listings for additional sources.
Syracuse Prehealth Website
Summer Research Opportunities at National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Sponsored by National Science Foundation
Nationwide summer research opportunities for undergraduates in science
(last maintained in 1999 but will provide some good leads)
International Opportunities
In addition to sites provided on previous “Prehealth Bulletin” listings, please feel free to review these as well for international volunteering opportunities.
The Idealist
One Small Planet
Transitions Abroad
