2021 Joppa Community Cleanups

Help clean up neighborhoods and homeless camps.

Due to COVID-19, the 2021 Joppa Community Cleanups will be a limited event.

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 10
9 a.m.-1 p.m.

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

Volunteer Opportunities:

1. Clean up a few select homeless campsites in Des Moines
2. Work in the Shared Roots Community Garden and clean up the surrounding Cheatom Park Neighborhood
3. Clean up the surrounding area outside the Joppa Center
4. Help inside the Joppa Center (assemble shelves, move furniture, clean and organize the facility)

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

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? Contact Kayla Choate at (515) 420-9225, or email kayla.choate@joppa.org.