Meal/Grocery Distributors

Meal/Groceries Program
Washington Street UMC, ALIVE!, ARHA, Charles Houston Recreation Center, and Volunteer Alexandria have come together to offer food/groceries for the residents in the area of the Charles Houston Recreation Center. Volunteers are needed to help with set up, food/grocery distribution, and clean up.
Location: Charles Houston Recreation Center, parking lot
Volunteers must be 18 and older.
Face coverings are required to be worn. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain, especially in areas of significant community-based transmission.
Volunteers should fashion face coverings from household items or common materials, such as clean T-shirts or other clean cloths that can cover the nose and mouth area. Medical personal protective equipment such as N95 respirators or surgical masks will not be necessary for this purpose as these should be reserved for the appropriate personnel.
Before you volunteer, please ensure:
- That you have you NOT been at any places and therefore exposed where people have tested positive for COVID-19? If so, do not volunteer.
- That you DO NOT exhibit any symptoms of a respiratory illness including fever, runny nose, sore throat, coughing or difficulty breathing now or in the past 24 hours? If so, do not volunteer.
- That you or someone you live with is NOT at high risk (this includes persons who are age greater than 65; have underlying heart disease or lung disease, diabetes, liver disease; are immunocompromised, on dialysis, or have severe obesity with BMI greater than 40). If so, do NOT volunteer.