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Class Assistant/Shopper

Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline is a nutrition education program that teaches families how to make healthy and budget-wise food choices. Professional chefs and nutritionists volunteer to share their expertise with participants by teaching Operation Frontline’s cooking-based nutrition education classes. Each class is built around a participatory cooking lesson designed to teach the basics of healthy eating, cooking, food safety, and food budgeting.

Volunteer Opportunity:
Help facilitate classes that teach low-income individuals at risk of hunger how to select, purchase and prepare healthy low-cost meals.

Volunteers are needed to facilitate classes in two ways:
• Shopping for food needed for the cooking lessons and bags that students take home each week.
• Assisting in the classroom by managing class materials including food, supporting the volunteer instructors, helping with set up and clean up, and working with students as needed.
Class series meet once a week for six weeks and are coordinated by Operation Frontline staff. Classes are offered for adults, teens, and children, and are held at community agencies around the city.

Qualifications and Requirements:
• Interest in working with individuals with diverse backgrounds
• Dedication to helping alleviate hunger, poor nutrition and poverty
• Ability to lift 20 pounds
• Ability to travel to class locations
• Willingness to work as a team and adhere to program policies and procedures

Time commitment:
• Assisting in class: at least 3 hours a week for six weeks, plus travel time to and from class locations
• Shopping for class: at least 1 hour per week before each class series
• Training: orientation, class observation, ongoing training as needed.

Benefits of Volunteering:
• Make a real difference in the lives of people at risk of hunger and malnutrition
• Learn about healthy low-cost cooking
• Meet a new and diverse group of people
• Do something new and have fun!

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