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Needs

Food Closet

Our current needs are:

    • cooking oil
    • grape jelly
    • canned chicken
    • cereal
    • snacks/cookies for kids
    • laundry detergent
    • dish soap
    • shampoo

Our recurring high priority needs include: 2 lb. bags of white rice, cooking oil, applesauce, all sizes of diapers, and laundry detergent.

Call 703-679-8966 and leave a message in box 1 to schedule an appointment to drop off donations.

Clothes Closet

The CHO Clothes Closet gratefully accepts donations of clothing which are distributed free of charge to needy families in our community. There is a constant need for all types of seasonal clothing. Our current needs are:

  • Toddler girl sizes 36 month and 3T, 4T, 5, 6 / 6X
  • Toddler boy sizes 4T and 6
  • Men’s shirts sizes S, XL, XXL
  • Men’s jeans size 32 and 34
  • Teen boy shirts and pants sizes 14 – 18
  • Boy’s shirts and pants sizes 7 – 14
  • Women’s tops sizes S, M, and XXL
  • Women’s skirts all sizes
  • Women’s pants size 12
  • Teen girl tops
  • Teen girl skirts and dresses
  • Girl’s skirts and dresses sizes 7 – 14
  • Maternity tops
  • Women’s underwear and bras
  • Women’s sleepwear

Please see the main Clothes Closet page for our hours and other important information.

Furniture Program

The furniture program has suspended pickups for the holidays. Our next pickup will be Saturday, January 26. If you would like to donate furniture before then, please consider Habitat for Humanity ReStore (www.restorenova.org)

The Furniture Program has an ongoing need for beds (all sizes except King), dressers and chests of drawers, sofas and love seats (but no sleep sofas or sectional sofas), dining table/chair sets, microwave ovens, rugs, lamps, baby cribs and mattresses. Pick-ups of donated furniture will resume February 14 and will continue each month on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month. To schedule a pick-up, call (202)-681-5279 .

For more on the items needed (and not needed) by the Furniture Program, see this page.

Meals on Wheels

Meals on Wheels: Drivers are needed Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Food is picked up at VPC about 10:15; delivery takes about 1 hour. Contact George Bergquist, 703-727-5846 , gwb0745@gmail.com for more information. To determine current driver needs, also contact George.