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Volunteer Opportunities
The Metropolitan Washington Ear is a non-profit organization that provides
reading services
for the blind, visually-impaired and print disabled of the Washington area.
We are currently seeking
volunteers.
Our Volunteer Opportunities are as follows:
- Readers for the Dial-In Newspaper and Magazine services:
Volunteers are asked to take a brief audition and commit to a weekly shift of two hours,
between 6:00 am - 11:00 am, to read The Washington Post, selections of The Wall
Street Journal, USA Today, Time Magazine, People, and the Washingtonian
Magazines into a computer, which will then be accessed by low vision or blind callers.
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Readers for the Radio Broadcast: Volunteers are asked to take a
brief audition and commit to 2 hours per week to read magazines, newspapers, and other
national publications to be aired on our 24-hour closed circuit radio
broadcast and our world wide webcast.
- Look-up Service: We are looking for volunteers to help with
the look-up service. Volunteers agree to be at home and available (via telephone call
forwarding from the Dial-In number to your phone one night a week from 7:00 PM to 9:00
PM). Call forwarding will keep your name and phone number anonymous. Volunteers will be
responsible for looking up items in The Washington Post not covered in the daily
reading -- Classified Ads and the Yellow Pages.
- Speakers Bureau: Volunteers are needed to speak on behalf of the
Washington Ear at local organizations, schools, churches, and to man information booths at
local health fairs. We only recruit speakers from our readers.
If you would like to be a member of the speakers bureau, you must first read
for us for at least 6 months and become familiar with the organization.
- Office Help Volunteers are needed to help answer phones, help with
data entry, filing, mass mailings and other office duties.
If you are interested, or would like more information about
becoming a volunteer or to schedule an audition,
call 301/681-6636 and ask for Donna Hunsicker. Office hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30 AM -
5:00 PM. Our E-mail address is info@washear.org.
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