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By TIMES WIRES
Published December 24, 2006

LARGO

AIDS Partnership Inc.: 6085 Park Blvd., needs buddies to work one-on-one with clients (training provided), volunteers to work in office and food pantry. personal hygiene products and nonperishable foods. Call 541-6638.

BIG Brothers/Big Sisters of Pinellas County: 918 West Bay Drive, provides adult volunteers to children from single-parent families. A new site-based program allows time-restricted volunteer participants to help in- and after-school activities. Needed: volunteers, especially men, and corporate sponsors for activities for children who are on the waiting list. Call 518-8860.

Hospice of the Florida Suncoast: 5771 Roosevelt Blvd., , provides end-of-life services to clients and their families. Needed: volunteers for thrift shop, office and patient and family support, items for resale at thrift stores and cash donations. Call 586-4432.

Missing Children Awareness Foundation Inc.: 13094 95th St. N. Needed: donations of school supplies, new toys for the annual Christmas party and cash donations for the Juvenile Photo-ID and Fingerprint Program. Call 585-5360.

Resource Center for Women: 1301 Seminole Blvd., Suite 150, helps women and their families achieve emotional and economic stability and self-sufficiency. Needed: volunteers, pocket calendars, notepads, phone cards, staplers and stamps. Call (727) 586-1110.

Stepping Stone: 158 Ridge Road NW, provides transitional housing for families. Needed: volunteers to sort donations and to work with children, bus tokens, bedding, towels, kitchenware, paper products and cleaning supplies, medium and large diapers, dish soap, detergent, mops, brooms, shampoo, conditioner, coffee, tea, lemonade, cereal, pasta and pillows. Call 581-7882.

CLEARWATER

Clearwater Free Clinic: 707 N Ft. Harrison Ave. This agency provides free health care to those who have no insurance and who do not qualify for government aid. The clinic treats nearly 7,000 children and adults yearly. Needed: cash, medical volunteers (physicians, nurses and pharmacists), non-medical (clerks and transporters), paper goods and office supplies. Call 447-3041.

Community Pride Child Care Inc.: 1235 Holt Ave. Needed: baby linens, baby toys and supplies, disposable diapers (medium and large sizes), baby wipes, double stroller, children's craft and school supplies, cash, children's clothing, children's playground toys, children's books, adult rocking chair, tricycles, tape recorders, paper products, fax machine, sew bibs and cot sheets and to read to older children. Call 443-0958.

Religious Community Services Administrative Office: 503 S Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. Needed: volunteers to sort donations, to shop for groceries and to work with children, disposable diapers, sheets, blankets, feminine hygiene products, bus tokens, full-size shampoo and conditioner, deodorant, paper products, cleaning supplies, sugar, flour, cooking oil, juices, coffee, tea, lemonade, cereal, pasta, pillows, bed frames and mattresses and pots and pans. Call 584-3528.

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