by Harry Burlington

Created on: May 28, 2009   Last Updated: August 19, 2009

Depending on your preferences as a person and the causes you support, Wichita offers so many different causes at which you can volunteer your time. The Department of Veterans Affairs can be reached at (316) 685-2221 or www.va.gov and the VA is always looking for new volunteers. The address of the Wichita VA hospital is 5500 E. Kellogg Ave. The VA's Voluntary Services department consists of hundreds of veterans, military dependents, and civilians who get accounted by their hours on duty as a respectable pay.

At the Wichita Veterans Administration hospital there are about 88 inpatients and thousands of outpatients who are constantly in need of a variety of services. Anything from getting a sick inpatient water to answering a question for an outpatient on the location of a clinic within the hospital just to name a few. There is no greater feeling than volunteering, but volunteering to help our nations veterans is a honorable cause in itself.

Habitat for Humanity is very active in the Wichita area and, through a total volunteer force, build homes for needy families in many areas across the city. The Wichita address for Habitat for Humanity is as follows 420 E English St Ste B Wichita, KS. They can be reached by phone at (316) 269-0755 or they can be reached by the web at http://wichitahabitat.org/. The Habitat for Humanity has started a new volunteer hiring process and that website is www.americorps.org and a short application process needs to be filled out for safety purposes. Habitat for Humanity offer two or three types of volunteer work, data filing positions, deconstruction positions, and construction positions.

The American Red Cross in Wichita offers volunteer services for disaster assistance emergency workers, blood donor's, data positions. Living in Wichita, Kansas and living in Kansas in general the threat for a natural disaster is always possible. Their location and contact information for Wichita is as follows. Telephone (316) 265-6601 and they are located at 707 N. Main St. Their web address is http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.d8aa ecf214c576bf971e4cfe43181aa0/?vgnextoid=7bf51a53f1c3 7110VgnVCM1000003481a10aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default for volunteering services.

Although there are many more places in Wichita to volunteer these are the best to get started your volunteering career in, for several reasons. Helping others does more for the volunteer than the person who is getting the product of your work.

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