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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!
Mews Team Event: Armáda spásy (10th Dec)
Task Type: Group Mission
Charity: Armáda spásy
The mission of The Salvation Army services is to meet the social, health and spiritual needs of people who experience danger, loneliness, illness, disability, social exclusion and are otherwise in need. The Mews team have been invited along to support with their Christmas Concert, where you'll be helping with the set up (cleaning, arranging the room, moving tables and decorating) and during the event (serving food to clients).
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.
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.
Donate items to Cesta dům
Task Type: Donation
Charity: Cesta dům
Cesta Dom is a non-profit organization that, through mobile hospice services, provides care for the terminally ill and dying in their natural environment and offers support to their loved ones. In the shops, we accept used goods on Wednesdays from 11 am to 2 pm and on Thursdays from 2 pm to 4 pm. Please check the list of what items are needed before taking your donation. The list will be found in the link below after you accept this mission.
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.
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.
Solo Eco Clean
Task Type: Eco Cleanup
Charity: The ICP church
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.
Donate children's clothes & toys to Armáda spásy
Task Type: Baby Bank Donation
Charity: Armáda spásy
Do you have worn-out old things at home and you don't know what to do with them? One of the nice options is to donate these things and help others. Children's clothes and toys can help and bring joy, for example, in shelters for mothers with children or at community centers for families with children. You can directly contact the branch of the Salvation Army in your place of residence (link below after you accept)
Understanding Homelessness with Beam founder
Task Type: Bitesize talk
Charity: Beam
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.
Sign the Global Plastics Treaty
Task Type: Causes
Charity: Greenpeace
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.
Donate Toiletries
Task Type: Donation
Charity: The ICP church
The ICP church is in partnership with Dignity Restoring Hope NGO. You can bring the small items on Sunday to ICP. They are currently in need of hygiene items such as shampoo, body wash, shaving cream, razors, hand soap, toilet paper, feminine pads etc.
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.
Donate Food to your local Food Bank
Task Type: Food Donation
Charity: Czech Federation of Food Banks
Selected stores of the following retail chains are involved: Albert, Billa, COOP, dm drogerie markt, Globus, Kaufland, Lidl, MAKRO, PENNY, ROSSMANN, Teta drogerie, Tesco and online stores; Košík.cz, Rohlík.cz , iTesco and Billa e-shop. Find the nearest store on the map, add non-perishable food or drugstore items to your purchase and hand them over to volunteers behind the cash registers.
Donate items to the Praha Thrift Store
Task Type: Clothing Donation
Charity: Praha Thrift Store
Your donations provide support for the project by re-cycling gently used clothing, furniture and household items that many families with lower incomes cannot afford otherwise. Gently used clothing for men, women and children, shoes, household items, toys, electronics, jewelry, bedding, mattresses and household furniture items helps the most.
Coffee Mate
Task Type: Causes
Charity: Pledge
Pledge to buy a coffee or hot drink for a person experiencing homelessness.
Understanding Homelessness with Beam founder
Task Type: Bitesize Talk
Charity: Beam
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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