BARCELONA
Below you will find lots of opportunities organized by our volunteer partner, OnHand.
Click the relevant links below to either sign up to opportunities directly or
sign up via the OnHand app where you can collect points, help to plant trees and easily track your time!
Donate Food, Clothing, and Toys to ProHabitatge
Task Type: Clothing Donation
Charity: ProHabitatge
ProHabitatge is an organization that seeks to guarantee the right to housing for all people, with special emphasis on activating and accompanying processes of empowerment and residential inclusion for those people with greater social vulnerability, and especially those due to gender reasons.
Write a letter to an elder
Task Type: Causes
Charity: Love for your Elders
Everyone deserves a mailbox full of love letters, and Love For Your Elders are on a mission to make that happen– they've sent 500,000 letters of love around the world. So take a few minutes, sit down, and write a letter. Tell them about yourself, maybe share a joke or a riddle and let them know that they are loved. When you accept this mission a link below will appear which will show you the letter requests for that month. They have guidelines on what the letter should and shouldn't include.
Sign the Global Plastics Treaty
Task Type: Causes
Thanks to people like you, governments have now started UN negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty. This treaty has huge potential to set us on the path to a plastic-free future. Now it’s up to us to make sure it delivers on its promises. Join the call and demand an ambitious and strong global plastics treaty that will limit plastic production and use.
Send a Message of Hope
Task Type: Causes
Charity: Women for Women International
Since 1993, Women for Women International has invested in the power of over 500,000 women who are forgotten — the women survivors of war and conflict — to learn the skills they need to rebuild their families and communities. Their vision is to create a world in which all women determine the course of their lives and reach their full potential.
Suitcase Donation to ProHabitatge
Task Type: Donations
Charity: ProHabitatge
ProHabitatge is an organization that seeks to guarantee the right to housing for all people, with special emphasis on activating and accompanying processes of empowerment and residential inclusion for those people with greater social vulnerability, and especially those due to gender reasons.
Donate Items to Piel de Mariposa
Task Type: Donations
Charity: Piel de Mariposa
The Piel de Mariposa Solidarity Shops use the income generated through their charity shops to help raise awareness of butterfly skin, and support families battling this condition. Please take clothing, shoes, bags, CD's and other items to donate to this cause.
Donate clothing and footwear to Esperança Barcelona
Task Type: Donate to Hygiene Bank
Charity: Esperança Barcelona
Spreading love, feeding hope! Join the community of Esperança Barcelona volunteers in making a difference. Every weekend, they serve homemade meals, clothes and lots of love to the homeless in the streets of Barcelona. Esperança Barcelona welcome donations of clothing and footwear, that are clean, in good condition and practical. Esperança Barcelona always needs underwear, socks, toiletries in small bottles/packages, blankets, and sleeping bags. They do not accept duvets and pillows.
Lend Your Sight with Be My Eyes
Task Type: Causes
Charity: Be My Eyes
Be My Eyes is a free mobile app with one main goal: to make the world more accessible for blind and low-vision people. The app connects blind and low-vision individuals with sighted volunteers and companies from all over the world through a live video call. You could help with anything from reading a letter, distinguishing colours, or navigating new surroundings.
Solo Eco Clean
Task Type: Eco Cleanup
An eco cleanup is an easy way to make a difference in your local community. Choose an area where you can make a big impact and spend an hour or two (or longer!) collecting litter. Please to dispose of the litter into a bin/somewhere you know it will be collected.
Help Identify animals in live images across the world!
Task Type: Animal Support
Charity: ZSL
ZSL’s Instant Wild empowers you to take part in vital conservation work, bringing you LIVE images and videos from amazing locations all around the world. By identifying the animals in each image, you are contributing to conservation and making a positive impact on the future for wildlife.
Tell a story of a lifetime
Task Type: Causes
Charity: Small Acts of Kindness
There is a story in all of us to tell, and we want you to share yours with family, friends and us too! So why are we asking you to have the conversation of a lifetime? There are moments in our life that perhaps we’ve never shared before; achievements, journeys, people we’ve met, places we’ve travelled to or worked at, those we’ve loved and those we’ve lost, where we’ve come from and where we’ve ended up, funny anecdotes and special occasions.
Donate food to Caritas Barcelona
Task Type: Food Donation
Caritas focuses on meeting people's basic needs through the basic needs assistance programme. You can collaborate by offering second-hand clothing, food and items at the distribution centres. If you want to donate food, click the link below for the nearest distribution points. You can bring non-perishable products and personal hygiene items there, but you must call in advance to be informed of the food collection time.
Coffee Mate
Task Type: Pledge
Pledge to buy a coffee or hot drink for a person experiencing homelessness.
Understanding Homelessness with Beam founder
Task Type: Bitesize Talk
Accept this mission and watch along to our interview hosted by onHand founder, Sanjay and guest Alex, Beam founder, who discuss homelessness and what you can do to help.
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