Volunteer: Pick up and organize books for children of incarcerated parents
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
Send new books to the children of prisoners with a recording of the parents reading the stories.
Send mail to prisoners including Christmas and birthday cards/personal correspondence.
Provide stationery at Mother's Day so families can communicate with each other.
Aunt Mary's Storybook, a cherished initiative of Companions Journeying Together, extends a heartwarming connection between incarcerated individuals in several Chicagoland county jails and Illinois state prisons and their beloved children, stepchildren, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and more.
What We Do We provide books and audio recorders to those in custody, assisting them in selecting age-appropriate books for the children who mean the most to them. Each participant is given an opportunity to create a unique audio recording, reading the book and adding a personal message. On behalf of the person in custody, we then lovingly package and send the book and recording to the child.
We Need Your Help We're searching for a dedicated volunteer located in the Chicagoland area to assist us in picking up donated books from a warehouse in Pilsen on a monthly basis and entering them into our web-based application inventory system. The inventoried books are then dropped off in the La Grange area. Besides picking up and dropping off the books, this volunteer activity is done from your home.
Your Role
Picking up donated books from a warehouse in PilsenEntering ISBN from each donated book into our inventory systemEntering data from publicly accessible databases into the inventory systemPreparing inventory labels and affixing them to each donated bookDropping off the entered books to the La Grange areaMeeting with us occasionally for supplies
Requirements
Access to a reliable form of transportation to transport boxes of booksAccess to personal computer, internet, and printerAbility to lift several boxes of books weighing roughly 25 lb eachAn eye for detailHighly organizedA passion for making a difference in the lives of families separated by incarceration
Get Involved If you're interested in being a part of this meaningful project and you meet the above requirements, we'd love to hear from you. Please contact us, and we'll direct you to complete our online volunteer application.
Together, we can create lasting memories and connections for families in need.
This is a volunteer opportunity provided by VolunteerMatch, in partnership with LinkedIn for Good.
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