www.durhamrescuemission.org
volunteer@durhamrescuemission.com
919.688.9641 x 5025
The Durham Rescue Mission is a faith-based, non-profit organization that has been ministering to the needy and homeless in the Research Triangle for the past 30 years. The DRM offers a "helping hand up" to alcoholics, drug abusers, and others by meeting their basic needs: three hot meals a day, clean clothing, and safe shelter at the Men's Campus and Women & Children's campus. Counseling and vocational training are also provided. The DRM also runs a thrift store of donated items.
The DRM has various volunteer opportunities on a daily, weekly, monthly, or one-time basis, including:
- serve as an ambassador of your church
- being a kitchen helper and cooking meals
- tutoring residents in reading and Microsoft Office software
- sorting and pricing items at the thirft store
- gardening, landscaping, and splitting firewood
- office tasks (mail room and phone reception)
Other skills that are of need include:
- Backhoe or Loader operations
- CarpentryCarpet Cleaning
- Dentistry
- Drywallers
- Electricity
- Plumbing
- Hair Dressing
- Mechanics
- Medical
- Nursery
- Heating and Air Conditioning
- Optometry
- Organization
- Painters
- Piano Playing
- Wallpaper Hanging
- Welding