-The Hand Up Food Pantry believes in helping clients reach self-sufficiency by providing a ‘hand up’ not just a hand-out to clients experiencing food-insecurity. They accomplish this by connecting clients to resources in addition to providing emergency food relief to 800 families each month at distributions throughout San Diego County. The JFS Warehouse is located at the Balboa Avenue location and houses all food donations. Goal of Position: Warehouse volunteers are vital to helping us serve hundreds of people weekly. In the warehouse volunteers help to prepare food distribution bags and sort through donations. Volunteers get to fight food insecurity in a tangible way. Responsibilities: -Sort through food donations -Stock food pantry shelves -Assemble food bags for distribution and emergency food bags -Provide at least 48 hour notice if you need to cancel your volunteer time Qualifications: -Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds -Must wear closed toed shoes and clothes that can get dirty If you would like to chair this event please comment AND message one or both of the SVPs. When sending the chair message please include BOTH SVPs in the message. Please send a picture (including attendance) to the SVP email (service@aposdsu.org) and the chair form within 48 HOURS of the event.