A Day in the Life of a CAP Volunteer

Typical Weekday:
6:30 (ish) - Rise and Shine
7:55 - Walk to work
8:15 - Staff devotion and morning prayer. Good way to start the day!
8:30ish - 9:30ish - Fill out paperwork for the previous days' visits, write notes to my
participants call my participants to schedule visits, plunder through the
warehouse getting supplies and treats to take to my participants.

One of CAP's biggest programs is Operation Sharing in which over 125 corporations
(including the owners of brands like, Banana Republic, Avon, Listerine, Ocean Spray, Tropicana etc.) donate their defect or surplus products to CAP. Last year CAP received donated materials valued at over 55 millions dollars. As volunteers we get to take these products and distribute them to our participants. But there is no way that CAP alone could distribute all of these materials, so it partners with 1300 other smaller organizations, churches, and non-profits in order to get the items distributed. In other words, a girl scout troop in some other part of appalachia can come to one of our Operation Sharing warehouses and get supplies to distribute to people they are serving. Such an awesome program! And the volunteers get dibs on the donated materials too. Too bad I just missed the banana republic shipment!
9:30-10:30ish - Drive to Knott County. I think I will eventually come to really appreciate this time I have alone to myself. Living with 14 other people doesn't give you much alone time.
10:30 - 3:30ish - Visit my participants. I will probably visit with an avg. of 3 participants a day. This will vary on the days that I have to take participants to their doctor's appointments or to run other errands. I have 25 participants in my county.
3:30-4:30ish - Drive back to Hagerhill
6:00 - Community Dinner and Devotion. Monday through Thursday nights the house eats together as a community. Different people are responsible for cooking each night. Whoever cooks is also responsible for devotion. I'm cooking for the first time tomorrow night. I'm making BBQ Meatballs - one of my favorite recipes from my summer at bear trap. I hope it goes well!
7:00 - Some sort of physical activity. 95% of my day at work will be spent sitting. I'll either be sitting at a desk, sitting in a car, sitting in a doctor's office, or sitting on a participant's couch. Exercising will be a must, although I'll have to get creative. There are a couple of parks nearby - but not any good running trails. I've managed to make-up some of my own.
8:00-10:00 - Hangout with people in the house. We mostly hang-out together on the front porch or watch TV.
10:00-11:00 - Blog, read, relax.
11:00 - Goodnight!

Goodnight!