The Raleigh-Durham International Airport is looking for volunteers for morning, evening and weekend shifts. Volunteers will be working in hospitality at the airport. Volunteer at RDU and gain altitude.

Help the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle with nutrition outreach. Volunteers will be trained to speak to groups of low-income individuals by Durham DSS about the food assistance programs available and the importance of good nutrition. Speaking engagements will be in the afternoons or evenings.

The after-school program at Pearsontown Elementary, a year-round school, is looking for a volunteer to instruct students in sign language. Students enrolled in after-school are ages 5 to 11, and they meet every week day from 4 to 6 p.m. Instruction time can be scheduled at the volunteer's convenience. The students would like to learn a song to perform for the school and community.

Do you love libraries? Durham Public Schools media centers are in need of volunteers to shelve books, check in books and magazines, repair books, assist with book fairs, and maintain catalog files and displays. This is a wonderful opportunity for a volunteer able to commit to several hours a week. Assistance is needed at elementary, middle and high schools.

Hearing Loss Association of NC-Durham Chapter is looking for a volunteer to assist in running its small nonprofit. Primary duties would be to facilitate a monthly meeting, recruit and assist members/volunteers, and coordinate services for the hearing impaired. Interested volunteers with good computer skills should contact Bob Jentsch at 489-7186 or fitzjent@aol.com. Make sure you put "hearing loss query" in the subject line.

Wish granting volunteers are needed for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Wish granters visit the family and interview the wish child, explaining the wish procedures and experiencing first-hand the impact a granted wish can make.

Caring individuals are needed to staff the Durham Crisis Response Center's Crisis Line Advocate or Hospital Responder programs for four-hour daytime shifts. Hours are very flexible and are worked out to fit your schedule. Forty hours of training time is required.

Do you like working with people? Do you need flexible volunteering hours? Durham Parks and Recreations-Campus Hills needs your help assisting with recreation programs. Programs include after-school activities to senior aerobics to special events, and everything in between.