Volunteer Opportunity Details:

Many of our hospice patients are alone and would love to be enveloped in a warm shawl or lap robe. Would you like to help comfort someone who is approaching end of life by knitting, crocheting or quilting a shawl or lap robe?

Skills

Shawls/lap robes should be approximately 30" x 45" and made from soft yarns. Please enclose a card with your FIRST NAME ONLY that this shawl/lap robe was handmade.

Please call the Volunteer Department at Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island to arrange pickup/delivery or mail completed shawls/lap robes to Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island, Volunteer Department, 169 George Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860.

This opportunity is sponsored by: Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island

This volunteer opportunity is available to the following types of volunteers Youth/Teens (13-17) Internet/Home Volunteer Adults (26-54) Large Group (11+) Adults (55+) Mentally Disabled Children (5-12) Physically Disabled Families Small Group (2-10) Individual Young Adults (18-25) We need volunteers who are free at these times Evenings Weekdays Occasional Weekends

Contact Person: Bobbi Wexler, Volunteer Program Manager, (401) 415-4260, (email) View all agency contacts

Address:

1085 North Main Street Providence, RI 02904 (See a map)

Directions:

From Route I-95 North or South. Take the Branch Ave. exit, Exit #24. (From Pawtucket & Massachusetts – turn left at end of exit.) (From Cranston & Warwick – turn right at the end of the exit) Follow Branch Ave. for approximately ¼ mile. Turn left onto North Main Street (US 1 North/RI Rt. 122 North) Follow North Main Street for .6 miles. End at 1085 North Main Street on your right.   Nearest Bus Stop: 99, 1 minute walk

Details where opportunity can also be performed

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Nationwide:

Available throughout all of the US

Miscellaneous Information

Handicap accessible?
	Yes
Does this opportunity provide services to low-income communities?
	Yes