2022 Joppa Community Cleanups

Help clean up neighborhoods and homeless camps.

Joppa is offering a volunteer work day with opportunities to clean up a few select sites in the Des Moines metro. Space is limited, and spots are first-come, first-served. Lunch is provided.

Mini Joppa Community Cleanups
Saturday, April 2, 2022
9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Registration is open! Click HERE.

If you’re interested in other volunteer opportunities, email volunteer@joppa.org.

Volunteer Opportunities:

Our final list of Cleanup jobs is being finalized, but potential jobs will include:

• Cleaning up a few select homeless campsites in Des Moines
• Working in the Shared Roots Community Garden and clean up the surrounding Cheatom Park Neighborhood
• Cleaning up the surrounding area outside the Joppa Center
• Helping inside the Joppa Center

If you sign up for an outside cleanup role, activities will include picking up, bagging and carrying debris to trucks and/or dumpsters. Please plan accordingly:

Wear: Work gloves, long pants, long sleeve shirts, and closed-toe shoes
Need: Pickup trucks, trailers, wheelbarrows, trash grabbers, trimmers and shovels

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Joppa Community Cleanups are conducted entirely by volunteers, with the full cooperation and assistance from our homeless community and in coordination with city officials and the Street Outreach Coalition.

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Questions? Email volunteer@joppa.org.