DAVENPORT -- Have I got an investment opportunity for you. You can get in on the ground floor and watch things grow. You can shape destinies. You can save lives.

You can spend hours on the phone.

ChildLife International is desperately seeking volunteers.

``I just see ChildLife getting bigger and bigger,'' founder Connie Siefken said from her Davenport home, ``but it won't if the Quad-Cities doesn't help us. I'm at a point now where I have to staff an entire office of volunteers that can take over every department.''

Mrs. Siefken wants to refocus her time to fundraising. Her goal is to raise $10 million for a fund to provide medical treatment for Russian children.

To do that, she needs other people to take over the daily duties of ChildLife, including responding to telephone calls, arranging to ship humanitarian aid and locating host homes for children recovering from medical treatment.

ChildLife also needs volunteers to travel to Russia to deliver donations and play with children. A trip July 12-21 will cost $1,850 and a trip October 9-17 will cost $1,750.

You can help ChildLife in other ways, too. Russian orphanages need a constant influx of undershirts, underwear, socks, gloves, mittens and hats. Many of the children are from low-income families and come to the center without those things. Most centers are strugging to feed the children and have no money to buy clothes.

Clean, secondhand or new clothes can be taken to Mrs. Siefken's home, 2716 LeClaire St., Davenport. Checks can be mailed to the same address. For more information, please call Mrs. Siefken at 324-5797.