SEAMEN'S CENTER OF WILMINGTON, INC
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how to volunteer with us

Become a volunteer!

click for our Volunteer fact sheet
VOLUNTEER APPLICATION FORM
Consider devoting a few hours to helping SCW. Your contact with seafarers from all parts of the world will open a new and rewarding world for you.

Many non-profits claim volunteers make it happen – but at the Seamen’s Center of Wilmington, volunteers not only make it happen, they are the lifeline for international mariners arriving in the State of Delaware.

Imagine leaving your home, family, and all things familiar to go to work for nine months (or more) and not seeing, touching or even tasting your favorite things until your contract is over and you can return home. In a nutshell, that is exactly the life that seafarers experience.

At SCW our volunteer staff help many of these men hold their lives together with a welcoming handshake and an offer of assistance. Volunteers at the Seamen’s Center of Wilmington welcome more than 10,000 mariners every year.

It is common to have volunteers report that they were serenaded by a guitar playing mariner, or that they helped a young man select an engagement ring for his future bride. And it is not unusual for someone to open up their heart and share their personal problems or loneliness.

​Whether it is an amusing anecdote regarding difficult communication or assistance making a mundane purchase, the SCW volunteers have seen it all. And at the end of a day’s work, all of the SCW crew love to share how rewarding it can be to help a stranger in a strange land.
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Sunday Fundays with Diane and Lew and crew members of the Hoegh Jeddah!
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Preston is ready to go!
If you are interested in joining our volunteer team, please click the link at the top of this page, or send an email [email protected] with your contact information and we will get back to you. Please note that a complete federal background check is required due to our center's location at the Port of Wilmington, DE

VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR!

Our volunteers' hard work does not go unnoticed. Every year we award a "Volunteer of the Year" at our annual Staff Christmas Brunch.
Tony & Anita Mokienko 2024 Recipients
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Former recipients

Diane Olin White, 2023 Recipient
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Lew Dorsey, 2022 Recipient
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James Gestwicki, 2021 Recipient
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Joe Selvaggi, 2020 Recipient and Gardener Extraordinaire
Dick and Linda Lawyer, 2019 Recipients                                  Bob Colburn, 2018 Recipient
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Here is a current list of our wonderful group of volunteers! We would be nothing without them!

 CURRENT SCW VOLUNTEERS 

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​Kate Ballengee
Desk Volunteer

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Linda Beran
Desk Volunteer


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Sarah Berninger
Driver & Desk Volunteer
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Richard Carter
​Driver Volunteer

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Preston Cooper
​Driver Volunteer
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Clem Dinsmore
​​Driver Volunteer
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Lewis Dorsey
​Driver Volunteer

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​Karen Hoepfinger
​Desk Volunteer

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Jonathan Jaffe
​Driver Volunteer
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Randy Keim
​Driver Volunteer

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​​Linda Lawyer
​Desk Volunteer

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​Richard Lawyer
​Driver Volunteer/SCW Board Volunteer Rep

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​Susan Martin
​Desk Volunteer
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Anita Mokienko
​Desk Volunteer
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​Tony Mokienko
​Driver Volunteer
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​Diane Olin White
​Desk & Driver Volunteer
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​Robert Reis
​Driver Volunteer
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Joseph Ryan
​Desk & Driver Volunteer
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​Allen Streett
​Driver Volunteer
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​Ruth Collis
​Desk Volunteer
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Gene Zaiser
​Desk Volunteer
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Seamen's Center of Wilmington Inc​
P.O. Box 405
Wilmington, DE  19899
+1 (302) 575-1300
​[email protected]
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  • Home
  • About SCW
    • SCW Staff
    • SCW Board of Directors
  • Seafarer Services
    • Hours of Operation
    • Online Ordering Info
    • Twic Taxi Service
    • Bus Routes - DART
    • Seafarer Help Resources
  • Contact Us/Directions
  • SCW Volunteers
  • Fun(d)raisers
  • Ways to Donate
  • Christmas at Sea
  • Sea Sunday
  • Photo Galleries/Videos
  • THE LOG
  • Tix for Good Sweepstakes
  • SCW Archives