Community Care Durham seeks volunteers for Community Food Box program

Community Care Durham (CCD) is looking for volunteers to deliver food boxes that contain essential groceries to CCD client’s homes.

The Community Food Box program is a vital high demand service. Supported by local businesses and farms, the boxes contain the essentials for healthy eating. With the rising costs of groceries, food boxes offer an affordable way to help families. The fresh produce included in the boxes is locally grown, giving clients a farm-to-table experience. As well, the food boxes also contain fresh eggs, dairy and bread.

A recent donation means that CCD is now able to provide healthy food to all those who were on its waitlist for the food box program subsidy. This, in turn, means it now requires additional volunteers on Thursdays or Fridays. Deliveries will be made in the Oshawa/Whitby area.

Using their own vehicle, volunteers pick up the food boxes from the Whitby Hub (20 Sunray Street) on Thursday afternoons at 2 p.m. or Friday mornings between 9:30 and 11 a.m. Each assigned route takes about an hour to complete. There is an option for mileage reimbursement on a monthly basis, based on the kilometers driven or monies can be donated back to CCD.

For more information, interested volunteers should visit: www.communitycaredurham.on.ca/volunteers

To apply online to volunteer, visit: www.communitycaredurham.on.ca/volunteer/volunteer-application/