Volunteering

You can volunteer anything from a few hours to a few days a week…

The Amsterdam Food Bank values any contribution you can make, your time and skills could be just what we need. And we want you to enjoy volunteering. There are lots of ways to get involved. Whatever role you choose, you will make a real difference to the life of someone in crisis. If you want to know more about volunteering at the Amsterdam Food. And we can always use volunteers for:

  • Our warehouse: we sort and store donated food before it’s made into parcels for clients. Your help is vital as your work ensures our continuity.
  • Our uitgiftepunten (food bank pick-up locations in town): meet clients and weekly hand out food parcels
  • Our supermarket collections: help us at supermarkets to encourage clients to donate perishable food. First, you will gather with all the other volunteers. One of the regular volunteers will explain how everything works. You will present a grocery list with products that the Food Bank needs to the shoppers. You kindly ask if they want to buy one extra product from the list and donate it to the Food Bank. All donated products are sorted in crates. These groceries will be used to fill the packages that are handed out weekly to families who desperately need it. Please note; there is a morning and an afternoon shift where you can subscribe for.
  • Drivers: we drive around town to collect food donations and we also drive around town to deliver weekly packages. All drivers must be have the appropriate drivers license: type B, BE or CE (code 95 for trucks)
  • A variety of activities for few hours, e.g. packing food parcels: check the activity calender at NL cares.

Contact us or tell us what you’re looking for via vrijwilligers@voedselbank.org. Please include your contact details and we will contact you ASAP. We hope to welcome you at the Amsterdam Food Bank!

Donate and collect food

  • start a food drive with your friends, family, school, company, church, etc. with our ’fill-me boxes’: please contact our fundraiser
  • drop off food at our distribution center: please contact info@voedselbank.org or +31 20 638 44 77 or drop by during opening hours

Some of our most needed non-perishable food categories are:

  • Dried vegetables & peas (lentils, kidney beans, black beans, chick peas, etc.)
  • Canned vegetables & peas
  • Pasta, rice, couscous
  • Pancake flour, cereal, peanut butter, jam
  • Canned meat or fish
  • Olive oil, sunflower oil
  • Pasta sauce, soup
  • Gluten & lactose free products

Donate money

To us, financial support is as important as food donations. Thanks to your financial aid we can pay our bills (e.g. rent, electricity, transport costs, insurances). More over, thanks to your support we make the necessary investments to guarantee we can transport food packages safe en secure to our clients.
Donate now and make the difference!

Please contact us via our fundraiser or donate now.

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