Volunteer

There are many ways you may volunteer here at Malta House! We invite you to become a part of our Malta House Family! Click here to apply for a volunteer position at Malta House.

The following opportunities are available to you; be sure to choose the ones you are most interested in!

Nursery

• Nursery Hours are from 7 AM – 7 PM. We are seeking a minimum requirement of two hours once a month.
• If your gift is with infants and young children, the Malta House nursery will feel like home to you. Our babies come to the nursery as early as 6 weeks old and up to one year of age. Having a hand in molding a child’s development is an awesome and exciting responsibility. The rewards abound. The head of our nursery provides guidance and training for all who lovingly embrace our babies, so one should not hesitate to “share the love”.

Mother Mentor

• Mother Mentor volunteers have a unique opportunity to positively influence the life of a young mother and her baby. As a responsible adult, your experience will lead a mom to recognize the countless possibilities that lie before her. Through this partnership, the two committed parties may foster professional growth, interpersonal relationships and possibly career development.
• A mentor may share with a mentee (or protégé) information about her own career path, as well as provide guidance, motivation, emotional support, and role modeling. A mentor may help with exploring careers, setting goals, developing contacts, and identifying resources.

Driver

• Offer a mom transportation support to a doctor’s appointment, school, work, or personal errands.
• Offer support taking our moms to the grocery store once a week.
• Offer support with field trips.
• Deliver diapers to our moms in need.

Meal Prep

• Prepare meals for our moms to assist them on their busy school and work days.
• If you like cooking family-style meals, this is the place for you! In our new kitchen we offer a spacious open environment for you to prepare a home-cooked meal or teach a cooking class.
• For those feeling a need to give back to the community, but cannot spare the time away from home, you may consider preparing a meal for our mothers! Dinner would be a wonderful gift after working or being in school all day. Nothing fancy – just a simple casserole and salad will more than fit the bill!

Community Outreach

• Runs twice a month on the 1st and 3rd Saturday between 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
• Our Community Outreach program is an opportunity for us to support low-income moms throughout Fairfield County. We need your help to spread the love by creating care packages with diapers, wipes, and other donations we can offer.
• We also have many families that do not have a vehicle to collect the items they need. For this, we will need transporters to help deliver their care packages. And for those who love to organize, we need support throughout the week to help maintain the donation room.
• Would you please join both our Facebook Groups? We have a Malta Moms group for our graduating moms who have become independent, and our Community Outreach group that supports low-income moms in Fairfield County.

Front Desk Receptionist/Admin Support

• If you have administrative experience or love being busy answering phone lines, come be a part of our administrative volunteer opportunities! We want to make sure both ends of the phone are having a welcoming experience.
• Data entry and mailings.
• Resource Research – housing, career training, job placement services.

Tutor

• Assist mothers in preparing for class exams or certifications.

Facilitator

• Lead classes on topics like personal finance, resume building, cooking, exercise and more.

Celebrations

• Help us celebrate holidays and each mother’s personal development milestones.
• Birthday and baby showers.
• Move-in Welcome Homes and Move-out House Warmings.
• Education graduations, new jobs, obtaining a driver’s license, purchasing a car.

Events & Fundraising

• Malta House is always putting on events for exciting ways to engage with our many supporters! If you have the drive for planning, organizing, or being on your feet and helping us out at one of our events, we would love to have you! Be sure to check out our events page for what is coming up!

Social Media Ambassador

• If you enjoy surfing the web, then we need your help to tag us in pictures or videos you post while volunteer at Malta House.
• Adding comments of encouragement in our daily posts, and sharing on your page for more exposure, will help lift the image of Malta House as a place where young people belong and share the joy they have for our mission.

Malta House Ambassador

• Interested in really sharing our mission through public speaking? After being welcomed into our Malta House Volunteer Family, you can share your story with us through your parish during weekend masses. Laila Bravo, our Parish Speaking Coordinator, will help guide you on this experience!

Garden Yard & Maintenance

• We are desperately in need of volunteers to help with weeding our gardens. Women's organizations, gardening clubs, or anyone with a green thumb, please reach out!
• We're also looking to start a vegetable garden with lettuce, tomatoes, basil, etc. Looking for a self-starter with a team to teach our moms how to grow, care, and maintain the fresh veggies!