Interested in Volunteering? Consider Child Care!
One program at Jericho Road Ministries is Financially Fit, a financial education program for refugees - teaching the basics of banking, budgeting, and navigating US financial systems.
To help make the program accessible to their clients, they offer child care and a meal with the program. So volunteers are needed to make that possible! This time offers a great opportunity to create a learning rich environment for the children, and they provide volunteers strategies of culturally appropriate and developmentally-stimulating activities to share with the children.
The program launches again this January! It runs in 8-week cycles, meeting once a week for financial education. They will have four classes in different language groups, which will run consecutively. Classes are held at Jericho Road Ministries, 184 Barton Street 14213.
Their schedule is:
January 19th through March 10th
Tuesdays, 4:00-6:00pm and 5:00-7:00pm
Wednesdays, 4:30-6:30pm and 5:30-7:30pm
Each of these nights will have two classes overlapping, so the child care need will be from the beginning of the first class to the end of the second, with the greatest number of children during the middle overlapping hour. Kids from both classes will be together in a nursery/play area.
It would be helpful to have volunteers available 15 minutes beforehand (to be briefed, then ready and waiting for the kids), and then flexible to stay 15 minutes after, to allow for clean-up. They know this is a long period of time, so even if you could commit to coming for just the first or the second session of the evening, that would be such a great help! Each class ends with a meal, prepared by one of the international class participants, which volunteers are welcome to join us for.
This is an excellent cross-cultural learning opportunity! Anyone who is interested, please get in touch with Stephanie - her contact info is below. She is also happy to share more information with you.
Thank you for your interest! For more info on Jericho Road Ministries, click here!
Stephanie Lipnicki
Financially Fit Coordinator
(716) 348-3000 ext. 405
stephanie.lipnicki@gmail.com
