Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Open Hand ministries volunteer opportunities

Below is a note from Michael Stanton of Open Hand ministries letting us know of several volunteer opportunities in the coming weeks. If you are able to lend a hand, please contact Michael at MStanton@pts.edu .
Greetings,
Open Hand is scheduling special workdays for
Feb. 20th & Feb. 27, in addition to the regularly scheduled March 6th work day. Please review the following summaries.

Re/ the 2/20 & 2/27 workdays, please let me know as soon as possible re/ your availability and an approx. number of vol's you anticipate.

Things are really coming together re/ this project - you'll be happy to be a part of it!

Feb. 20 -
1) Final selective demolition that was orig. scheduled to be completed on Feb 6th workday (cancelled due to weather
- 10-12 vols - no special skills required

2) working w/ trade skill professional to frame in and sheath wall to close in the opening between the kitchen and the small addition that we will be removing plus installing door.
- 1-2 volunteers with moderate carpentry skills

3) working with trade skill professional to remove wall between kitchen and dining room and install load bearing beam
- 1 volunteer with moderate carpentry skills

Feb. 27 -
1) working with tradeskill professionals to install windows
- 10-12 volunteers with minimal to moderate carpentry skills

2) kitchen addition demo.
- 8-10 volunteers with minimal carpentry skills

March 6 -
regularly scheduled vol workday
schedule tbd
full range of skill sets
Open Hand Ministries seeks to respond to the injustice and inequality common to inner city neighborhoods by providing low/moderate income, disadvantaged families the opportunity for affordable homeownership in the economically challenged Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Garfield and East Liberty. Here is a link to their website: http://openhandpittsburgh.org/

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