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Skilled Volunteers

We are now recruiting semi-skilled volunteers who would ideally have experience in the following areas:

• Sheet rock finishing
• Interior & exterior painting
• Landscaping
• Installing insulation
• Carpentry
• Flooring

Please contact us at ohhvolunteer@archdiocese-no.org for more information.

Short-Term Volunteers

Get a group together and come visit! We accept groups from between 6-25 people. The group arranges transportation and we arrange the service. We’ll equip you with materials and assign you to a work site under the supervision of our project managers and long-term volunteers. Short term volunteers help out by participating in the following:

• Cleaning and preparing houses or apartments for rebuilding
• Installing insulation
• Hanging and finishing drywall
• Installing interior trim and flooring
• Painting home interiors
• Yard clean-up
• Exterior work and painting

Please contact us at ohhvolunteer@archdiocese-no.org for more information.

Long Term Volunteers

Long-term volunteers (LTVs) apply to work with us for commitments ranging from 3 months to 1 year. While some LTVs are affiliated with AmeriCorps, Catholic Charities also has its own volunteer corps especially for Operation Helping Hands.

LTVs are the project supervisors on many of our work sites, and they teach short-term volunteers valuable painting and construction skills while learning project management. The LTV position is open to both skilled and non-skilled individuals ages 21+.

Operation Helping Hands provides housing, meals and a small stipend for our long-term volunteers. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year. Please email Bethany or call (504) 210-7538 for an application.

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