Airport pickup: volunteers will wait in the airport cell lot until their team leader gives them a clear to go to baggage claim area to pickup the guests and their luggage. Lifting luggage may be required. You will then take guests to their hotel or apartment.
Welcome Meals: Team Leader will make arrangements for meal delivery, either from a restaurant or catering partners, where you will pick up meals and take to guests at hotels or their apartment.
Clinic Transports: Taking refugees to clinics for appointments
Clothes Sorting: Helping sort, organize and deliver clothes for Afghan Closet with Chichi
Apartment Setup involves the following tasks:
Salaam Neighbors Program: This job requires additional training from AJPR steering committee members and involves the following
Remember these important rules about the family you are working with:
For security reasons, do not take any pictures of the family.
Do not share their names and address to anyone who is not directly involved with helping that family already.
If the family is asking you for money, please talk to your supervisor.
Welcome Meals: Team Leader will make arrangements for meal delivery, either from a restaurant or catering partners, where you will pick up meals and take to guests at hotels or their apartment.
Clinic Transports: Taking refugees to clinics for appointments
Clothes Sorting: Helping sort, organize and deliver clothes for Afghan Closet with Chichi
Apartment Setup involves the following tasks:
- Warehouse Loading: Team leader will meet you at RST (or one of the other warehouses), where you will get a list of items to load into your car to take to the apartment. Lifting light objects will be required. Some heavy lifting will be required for bed frames, large boxes and mattresses.
- Groceries: one or two people will use the HEB list to order curbside pickup of groceries and take those to the apartment. Some food items may have to be obtained in a second location.
- Pantry Supplies: One person will go to St. Matthew's church to meet with Julie and pickup her Afghan pantry and kitchen supplies and take to the apartment.
- Furniture Assembly: a team of 3 people will be assigned per shift to put together bunkbeds, full size beds, tables and chairs that come in boxes. They will bring their own tools to do it.
- Runner: one person will be responsible to do a Target or Walmart run at the end of the day to purchase any items that are still missing after the apartment is set up. Runner may also have to run errands like picking up donations in various places.
- Furniture Delivery: after initial apartment setup, a team of 2-3 people may be needed to pick up heavy furniture.
- Organizing: unboxing, organizing kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, cleaning up after ready
Salaam Neighbors Program: This job requires additional training from AJPR steering committee members and involves the following
- clothes shopping
- medical visits
- bus orientation
- school support
- assistance with cell phones/ technology needs
- apartment orientation
- take to library
- Austin tours
- ESL/conversation classes
- cultural research
- Texas State ID
Remember these important rules about the family you are working with:
For security reasons, do not take any pictures of the family.
Do not share their names and address to anyone who is not directly involved with helping that family already.
If the family is asking you for money, please talk to your supervisor.
