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"Everybody can be great because everybody can serve." —Martin Luther King, Jr.
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge views volunteers as a valuable resource to staff and clients and works hard to ensure that volunteers have meaningful and fulfilling assignments, have adequate supervision and are treated in a respectful manner. Volunteers shall agree to actively perform their duties to the best of their ability and to adhere to the policies and procedures of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge. Download a volunteer application below. 

You can make a difference in our community, change the life of a Catholic Charities client, and transform your own life, too!  Volunteer today with one of these great opportunities:
 
Share with us your skills and interests like
  • Videography and photography
  • Graphic design, writing and promotions
  • Basic handyman skills and construction
  • Property and lawn maintenance
  • Childcare during classes
  • Office help
Support clients by
  • Building a wheelchair ramp 
  • Cooking a meal for pregnant, homeless women 
  • Preparing tax returns
  • Mentoring a job-seeker
  • Tutoring children after school 
  • Teaching a life skill to clients
  • Helping out at an event, like our Thanksgiving dinner for refugees
Sign up for 
  • The Community Comes together for Christmas
  • Operation Rice Bowl
  • CROP Hunger Walk
Program specific opportunities:
 
Refugee Resettlement—Refugees arrive in this country with the clothes on their backs and a thirst for freedom. You can help them on the way to achieving the American Dream!
 
Ongoing support to a refugee 
  • Learning English
  • Looking for work or employed
  • Struggling in school or college
  • Parenting children
  • Adjusting to life in the US
Teach refugees about
  • Apartment living and homemaking 
  • Budgeting and banking
  • US culture
  • Driving and biking “rules of the road”
  • Car and bike maintenance
  • Personal safety
  • Public transportation
  • Shopping



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Help our refugee resettlement staff 
  • Interpreting for clients
  • Prepare a meal for a newly arriving refugee
  • Donations pickup and delivery
  • Sort donations and record inventory
  • Apartment setup and cleaning 
  • Transportation for refugees to orientation, appointments and the grocery
  • Recruit other volunteers and donors
  • Document our work and refugee’s stories using your video, photography and/or writing skills 


 
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