Our mission is to reduce landfill waste to decrease Healthcare's carbon footprint.

The primary aim of our project is to promote sustainable healthcare. Participants will sort, quality check, fold, and transport, retrieve, package, and ship unused, but clean operating room supplies to our partnered hospitals and clinics via a nonprofit organization, and sterile wrap for recycling. Clean medical equipment designated for single use in our hospitals is diverted from landfills for use in recipient countries. Recycling blue wrap will significantly reduce the landfill waste coming out of our operating rooms, reducing the environmental impact of delivering care, and turning waste into valuable material.

Our volunteers, 16 years and older, will be available for sorting, identifying, and packaging critical medical supplies. Volunteers must work effectively in a team and demonstrate good communication and leadership skills to lead more prominent groups. Attention to detail is essential to ensure sensitive equipment is packed correctly and safely for shipment to communities in need around the world. Volunteers can contribute meaningfully to improving global healthcare inequities and decreasing the carbon footprint of Stanford Children's Hospital.

For more information about this specific volunteer program, please email: Theresa Young tyoung@stanfordchildrens.org.

Ronald McDonald House/Happy Wheels Hospitality Cart:
Provide comfort items to patients, siblings, families and visitors in common areas of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford from a rolling cart sponsored by RMH at Stanford. Sorting, loading and transporting cart with items to Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. Facilitation of simple craft and/or other activities with children and parents. Communicate with RMH staff about response to items on the cart. Wear specified Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford identification and RMH "uniform" while in the hospital.

Volunteer must sign up as a volunteer with Ronald McDonald House and SMCH volunteer. This is a shared service between both organizations.

Qualifications:
Minimum age of 18 years
Minimum commitment of 6-12 months
Strong people and communication skills
Excellent clerical skills: typing, filing and computer data entry
Careful attention to details
Bilingual a plus, able to work with diverse hospital population

Scheduled Shifts:
2 hour shift, 1 day a week