Volunteer Opportunity Details:

Caregiver volunteers provide a crucial assistance to home-bound elders, to remain living independently in their own homes. These folks love the contact, the company, the support. Caregivers can drive people to medical appointments, the hair dresser, the nursing home to visit a loved one. Caregivers can shop for someone just out of the hospital. Caregivers can just visit for an hour or two a week and chat, play cards, read, visit the garden or do whatever. Caregivers can take out the trash, change a burned out light bulb, fix a leaky faucet or a mal-functioning light switch. If you do not get around, you can call people from home and just chat for awhile. Caregivers meet so many important needs while creating a feeling in themselves of satisfaction, importance, giving back, or just being neighborly.

You need to be able to drive, or to have a phone. The program provides a supplemental accident/liability insurance policy at no cost to you.

This opportunity is sponsored by: Westbay Community Action/RSVP

This volunteer opportunity is available to the following types of volunteers Adults (26-54) Individual Adults (55+) Internet/Home Volunteer We need volunteers who are free at these times Occasional Weekdays

Contact Person: Susan Lewis, Program Director, (401) 732-4666, (email) View all agency contacts

Address:

224 Buttonwoods Ave Warwick, RI 02886 (See a map)

Directions:

Take 95S to the Airport exit. Once on airport exit take Post Road exit. At the end of Post Road exit, take a right. Go straight until you reach the Greenwood Bridge exit, take the exit. At it's end, go left, continue on Main Avenue until you reach corner of Main and Buttonwoods Avenue. At that corner take a right and follow Buttonwoods Ave. until 224.   Nearest Bus Stop: At corner

Details where opportunity can also be performed

This opportunity can also be performed in these locations:

Counties:		Kent

Miscellaneous Information

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