Volunteer

There are a number of ways you can get involved at Malachi House.

Volunteers are asked for a four hour commitment. For information on how to become a volunteer, please contact: Alice Sawyers, volunteer coordinator at (216) 621-8831 or volunteer@malachihouse.org.  

Opportunities include:

Kitchen

Follow menu prepared by full-time cook

Cooking, baking, table-setting

Serving meals to residents and preparing trays

After meal clean-up

Receptionist

Answering phones and transferring calls

Answering door and greeting visitors

Outdoor Maintenance

Cutting grass

Weeding

Keeping grounds clean

Snow shoveling

Resident Care

Volunteer caregiver assistants must attend one two-hour class. This aids in assuring that staff and volunteers are trained the same way. Caregiver assistants (staff) and volunteers who are interested in hands-on care train together. This includes transferring resident from bed to chair, turning resident in bed, bathing and other resident related jobs. The volunteer will serve as the second pair of hands for the staff member and will not be asked to perform these tasks alone.

Indoor Maintenance

Fixing any thing that is broken, ranging from changing light bulbs, furnace filters, cabinet doors and whatever else needs to be done.

House Cleaning

Involves anything you would typically do in a normal home, such as toilets, floors, windows, etc.

Eucharistic Ministers

Offering Holy Communion to residents, staff and visitors

May also conduct service in Chapel

Special Project Volunteers

Mailings

Stocking shelves

Managing donations during peak times

Gift sorting and wrapping

Pantry Organization

Checking expiration dates

Stocking shelves and rotating stock

Keeping shelves orderly

Group projects

Washing ceiling fans, vents and walls

Paint walls and ceilings

Thorough cleaning of bathrooms and shower rooms

Heavy kitchen cleaning

Vigil Volunteer

Sitting with residents who are actively dying — Scheduled in one-hour increments