Opportunities From: HandsOn Maui

The West Side Feed My Sheep has moved to Citizens Church effective May 9th. 2024.

Distribution will run from 10:00 am to 11.45 am

The address is:

Citizen’s Church
4275 Hine Way
Lahaina, HI  96761

This location is approximately 1/2 a mile south of Kahana Gateway Shopping Center off of Honoapiilani HWY 30.

Feed My Sheep is people of the community working together to feed the hungry in body, in mind and in spirit. Does that sound like you?

Join Feed My Sheep this Saturday 9:30 am to 12:00 noon for our weekly Kihei Distribution at Hope Chapel. Our weekly distributions are filled with an amazing cross-section of fine Maui residents who need help right now.

Our distributions are outdoor events. Please consider:

Feed My Sheep is people of the community working together to feed the hungry in body, in mind and in spirit. Does that sound like you?

Join Feed My Sheep this Saturday 8:30 am to 12:00 noon for our weekly Kahului Distribution across from Salvation Army (65 W. Kamehameha Ave). Our weekly distributions are filled with an amazing cross-section of fine Maui residents who need help right now.

Our distributions are outdoor events. Please consider:

Feed My Sheep is people of the community working together to feed the hungry in body, in mind and in spirit. Does that sound like you?

Join Feed My Sheep on Fridays from 9:30 am to 12:00 noon for our weekly Wailuku Distribution. We are giving away food at the corner of Market Street and Mokuhau St. in Happy Valley. Our weekly distributions are filled with an amazing cross-section of fine Maui residents who need help right now.

Our distributions are outdoor events. Please consider:

At Feed My Sheep we love giving healthy food to people in need.

Our response to the great challenges of this year continues, but how we respond is changing. Feed My Sheep staff will continue to need assistance sorting fresh produce and now we will also have canned goods to pack for our distributions. We also have projects around Feed My Sheep that need volunteer power, like preparing newsletters, recycling, and care for our warehouse.

You can help us with all these projects and prepare Feed My Sheep for a new year.

Things to know:

At Feed My Sheep we love giving healthy food to people in need.

Feed My Sheep is thankful to receive many donations to help our Maui community during the COVID-19 crisis. Some of our donations need to be sorted for freshness. Other items need to be divided up into individual packages.

You can help us do that at our Puunene headquarters.

Things to know:

At Feed My Sheep we love giving healthy food to people in need.

Our response to the great challenges of this year continues, but how we respond is changing. Feed My Sheep staff will continue to need assistance sorting fresh produce and now we will also have canned goods to pack for our distributions. We also have projects around Feed My Sheep that need volunteer power, like preparing newsletters, recycling, and care for our warehouse.

You can help us with all these projects and prepare Feed My Sheep for a new year.

Things to know:

At Feed My Sheep we love giving healthy food to people in need.

Feed My Sheep is thankful to receive many donations to help our Maui community during the COVID-19 crisis. Some of our donations need to be sorted for freshness. Other items need to be divided up into individual packages.

You can help us do that at our Puunene headquarters.

Things to know:

Deliver meals to our homebound clients.

Hale Kau Kau delivers through the assistance of our volunteer drivers 75 - 105 meals each afternoon to our Home Bound residents of South Maui. The meal consists of a hot entrée, starch, salad, vegetable, fruit, dessert, and bread.  Each meal is designed to provide approximately 1500 calories and address general nutritional needs.

Meal pick-up is at Hale Kau Kau at St. Theresa Church at 4:00 p.m. and delivery is in the South Maui area.

Make a huge difference in so many lives by helping prepare meals for those in need! Meals are prepared for our homebound clients and also served through our kitchen window. Other activities include food preparation and clean up.

We need many loving hands to help pick our biodynamic cotton on the farm! We also need help ginning the cotton. A cotton gin? Yes! We do have a cotton gin! We make farm-enhanced products like pillows, seatbelt covers, and use the cotton to decorate cards. We also make our own paper by mixing old jeans, our cotton, freshly picked flowers, and put them all into the blender and lay it out as freshly made paper that we'll dry for gift-wrapping and card making. So bring your old jeans and denims, and we'll put them to use!

We need help removing the invasive plants on a regular basis. Maintaining an organic farm with natural support requires a lot of manual work to constantly remove the invasive plants that are being blown in by the wind and dropped in by the birds. "Laulima" is the Hawaiian word which means 'many hands/contributing.' And we are eternally grateful to the many volunteers who have made our work lighter through laulima.

One needs to wear good strong shoes. We provide gloves. Bring your hat and sunscreen. We'll provide hand picks and larger picks, a sawzall, a ho'o, and other tools. We will provide refreshments, as well (something to eat and drink). 

Sheltering: Volunteers help support emergency shelters by staffing different areas, including reception, registration, feeding, dormitory, information collection and by completing other vital tasks.

Personal Development Opportunities

Become proficient as a Shelter Service Associate. Once proficient, career development to supervisory/management positions and specialization in Sheltering with an ability to go to disasters beyond the region (deployment).

If interested, please Click here to apply today or search for other available opportunities. You can also contact our volunteer recruitment team at mary.finley@redcross.org, or by calling 808-284-6849.

Once you have completed the application process, our Maui County Volunteer onboarding team member Elaine Olson will be in touch regarding training and further steps.

One person can hold both of the roles below. In general, the Red Cross doesn't do feeding at emergency shelters. They are just evacuation sites. However, if we have a large-scale disaster like a hurricane that displaces people for weeks/months, we would do feeding and would need community support.

Our current shelters need to be reevaluated every two years, and we also would like to identify new locations for shelters across the islands (Maui, Molokai, Lanai). While this work is done sporadically, it's crucial to our mission.

Feeding Surveyor: As a Feeding Surveyor, you'll identify food sources to provide meals for shelters. You'll go out into the community and connect with business owners (restaurants, caterers, Private Chefs) and work with them to determine:

Sheltering Surveyor: Similar to the above role, you'll go out in the community and either do a survey for a new location, or you'll reevaluate our current shelters to determine if anything has changed.

One person can hold both of the roles below. In general, the Red Cross doesn't do feeding at emergency shelters. They are just evacuation sites. However, if we have a large-scale disaster like a hurricane that displaces people for weeks/months, we would do feeding and would need community support.

Our current shelters need to be reevaluated every two years, and we also would like to identify new locations for shelters across the islands (Maui, Molokai, Lanai). While this work is done sporadically, it's crucial to our mission.

Feeding Surveyor: As a Feeding Surveyor, you'll identify food sources to provide meals for shelters. You'll go out into the community and connect with business owners (restaurants, caterers, Private Chefs) and work with them to determine:

Sheltering Surveyor: Similar to the above role, you'll go out in the community and either do a survey for a new location, or you'll reevaluate our current shelters to determine if anything has changed.