How to Volunteer at Operation Blessing USA

Operation Blessing USA is an organization founded in 1978 by televangelist Pat Robertson. It provides humanitarian services such as helping children in desperate situations, providing disaster and hunger relief, teaching life skills to adults in need, building water wells and providing medical supplies. Operation Blessing has helped over 192 million people to date. Read on to learn more.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Volunteer at Operation Blessing USA

1. Educate those in need through the Bless-a-child and Life Skills Empowerment programs. The Bless-a-child program focuses on tutoring children, teaching them life skills and helping their character development while the Life Skills Empowerment program provides skill training to adults and students in need of jobs.
2. Provide food, grocery and other items to impoverished families through the Holiday of Hope and Hunger relief programs.
3. Provide emergency services to survivors of natural or man-made disasters through the Disaster Relief program.
4. Volunteer to help with the Pencil Case Kit project. In this project, you can help to provide simple school supplies to schoolchildren around the world whose parents are unable to purchase such items. Visit the Operation Blessing USA Pencil Case Kit website to see the list of items you will need for a pencil case and where to mail the kits to (see Resources below).
5. Assemble a Disaster Relief Kit. The kits contain toiletries for those who need emergency relief. Visit Operation Blessing's website for a list of the items you will need for the kits and the address to which you will mail them (see Resources below).
6. Volunteer at other Operation Blessing chapters nationwide. Chapters in areas recovering from disasters will welcome as many volunteers as they can get. For instance, the chapter in Louisiana needs more laborers and medical personnel in the ongoing efforts to recover from hurricane Katrina.
7. Contact your local Operation Blessing chapter for more information on how you can volunteer. Search for the chapter closest to you on the homepage of the Operation Blessing website.

Contribute to Operation Blessing USA in Other Ways

8. Teach the children you know about giving. Quarters From Kids is an organization through which young boys and girls can help those in need. Operation Blessing is one of the partners of this organization.
9. Visit the "Caring Ideas" page to get ideas on what you can do to help in your community each month (see Resources below).
10. Help Operation Blessing USA continue its programs by making a donation. Give a one-time gift or arrange to give on a monthly basis.