PurposeYou want to get involved in your community, help or organize community service activities, please contact our Community Service Heads (Hao Xu or Ian Street) for more details.
You can read more about Hao Xu's experience as a community service organizer-- featured in Vox.
Cover is a local non-profit organization (http://www.coverhomerepair.org/homerepair.html) whose mission is to build community and foster hope through cooperation and fellowship among all home repair and reuse participants.
In January, DCPDA collaborated with Cover on a flooring project at Randorf (VT) with great success (see images from event below). This time, we will be working together for two low income families in Canaan, building entryway steps, repairing a rotted portion of flooring, and applying a protective coating on a roof to make both homes safer and more inhabitable.
So if you do not have anything special planned for that weekend, come out for a day (9 am to 4 pm), meet new people, and make sure that all citizens have safe, warm and habitable homes.
(No skills required!! Everything you need to know will be taught by experienced home repair work leaders. All volunteers are insured)
Blitz hao xu before the end of next week if you want to sign up or have questions.
Volunteering opportunities:
1. COVER Home Repair Project
Learn how to do flooring, roofing projects while helping the community. No experience required. Great for groups and individuals. Lot's of fun!!
Contact volunteer coordinator Sarah Blum at (802) 296-7241, Ext 104
2. Listen Community Dinners
Prepare dinner for 50 or so guests at various locations in upper valley. Popular group project (ideal for a group of around 5 people). Need to reserve well ahead of time. Week days only.
Contact Melanie Eastman at 603-448-4553
3. Quilts for Lutheran World Relief (5 Summer St., Hanover)
Learn how to make quilts while having fun! You can stay for just an hour or longer - very meditative.
Call 603-643-3703
Officers of DCPDA on a flooring project at Randolph Vt in January 2009:
 Project Leader Hugh MacArthur demonstrates how to use the miter saw on a Saturday. |
 Ian Street installs a wood floor. |
 Melanie Rutkowski, Guido Memmi, and Sandeep Tamber mesmerized by the power of the miter saw. |
 Melanie Rutkowski uses the miter saw for the first time in her life. |
