VolNExile
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Hey, fellow Volunteers!
We’re minimizing social contacts, as we are Old Farts, so I’ve had way too much time to read VN and my other favorite forum (bogleheads.) As this has gotten super-depressing, with a lot of mostly understandable “poor me” posting, I feel like doing something useful. All my scheduled community volunteer sessions for the next few weeks have been cancelled or modified.
So I started thinking about the many people in our area that don’t have any ”padding” in their lives to help weather difficult times, and now I’m headed to the grocery store to buy non-perishables for our local food bank: MANNA FoodBank COVID-19 Response and Updates.
Some of us can‘t afford to donate cash or goods, but we may have time to help. Others may have skills, including strong backs and rakes to keep street gutters clear so that storm drains can work.
Any thoughts about what we can do for our neighbors on our blocks, in our neighborhoods, in our towns and counties, and beyond?
- stay-at-home adults could keep kids for those who must keep going to work
- making grocery runs, both in-store or curbside pickup
- provide hot meals (the fine tradition of supply food for the bereaved and sick)
- cash donations to food banks and other community support groups
- maybe donating excessive purchases face masks and respirators back to local fire stations, etc.
- share (unused!) toilet paper, lol
- swing a hammer to help with some minor repairs
Anyone doing things like this on their own, with a couple of friends, with their churches/ temples/ mosques, with their civic groups (Kiwanis, etc.)? Let’s get that Volunteer spirit going! Wear your Vol gear!
Moderators, I know you have your janitorial duties to perform, but I hope you don’t have to merge this into the main thread.
We’re minimizing social contacts, as we are Old Farts, so I’ve had way too much time to read VN and my other favorite forum (bogleheads.) As this has gotten super-depressing, with a lot of mostly understandable “poor me” posting, I feel like doing something useful. All my scheduled community volunteer sessions for the next few weeks have been cancelled or modified.
So I started thinking about the many people in our area that don’t have any ”padding” in their lives to help weather difficult times, and now I’m headed to the grocery store to buy non-perishables for our local food bank: MANNA FoodBank COVID-19 Response and Updates.
Some of us can‘t afford to donate cash or goods, but we may have time to help. Others may have skills, including strong backs and rakes to keep street gutters clear so that storm drains can work.
Any thoughts about what we can do for our neighbors on our blocks, in our neighborhoods, in our towns and counties, and beyond?
- stay-at-home adults could keep kids for those who must keep going to work
- making grocery runs, both in-store or curbside pickup
- provide hot meals (the fine tradition of supply food for the bereaved and sick)
- cash donations to food banks and other community support groups
- maybe donating excessive purchases face masks and respirators back to local fire stations, etc.
- share (unused!) toilet paper, lol
- swing a hammer to help with some minor repairs
Anyone doing things like this on their own, with a couple of friends, with their churches/ temples/ mosques, with their civic groups (Kiwanis, etc.)? Let’s get that Volunteer spirit going! Wear your Vol gear!
Moderators, I know you have your janitorial duties to perform, but I hope you don’t have to merge this into the main thread.
