Welcome to our first newsletter! Each month we will highlight where we have been, a bit about our team members and volunteer sites…hope you enjoy it!

WHERE WE HELPED…

In January, we had teams volunteering at:

  • Meals on Wheels in
  • Newburyport and Haverhill
  • The WISH Project in Chelmsford
  • The Guinea Pig Sanctuary in Salisbury
  • The Amesbury Senior Center
  • First Presbyterian Church in Haverhill
  • The Giving Tree in Lawrence

We also took time to makes lots of cards for Cards for Hospitalized Children.

AND OTHER ADVENTURES!

Its impossible to list them all, but here’s some of our favorite January adventures:

  • YMCA Haverhill and Plaistow
  • Plum island wildlife reservation
  • Nevins Memorial Library Methuen
  • MSPCA
  • Northshore Mall
  • Lowell Arts Western studios
  • Chelmsford library
  • Rowley Public Library
  • Newburyport Library
  • Rockingham Mall
  • Antique Mall in Lawrence,
  • Museum of Guys Dumb Stuff in Portsmouth
    NH (yes, it’s a real place!)
  • Stevens Memorial Library in North Andover

VOLUNTEER HIGHTLIGHT

The Team decided that our first Newsletter would be the perfect time to highlight our longest running volunteer partnership atCommunity Works: Meals on Wheels. Meals on Wheels started in the United Kingdom during WWII to help people who had lost their homes. It started in the United States in Philadelphia in 1954 to provide lunches to seniors in need. Now in the US, Meals on Wheels provides over 218 million meals to 2.5 million Americans.

At Community Works, we have groups that deliver Meals on Wheels in Newburyport and Haverhill Monday- Friday. Most
team members love volunteering for Meals on Wheels, so everyone all takes turns. The main reason we like it so much is that we like to spread joy to people who don’t get many visitors. We also get to practice lots of skills that can be useful such as: Team building, concentrating ,staying focused, listening to instructions, using GPS, using memory, listening, organization, counting, and it’s a great way to practice social skills. When we deliver the meals, we have to go to the Senior Center and check our list for the day for any special meals for health reasons. We have to make sure we separate the cold and hot meals and put them in the correct bags with a hot pack or a cold pack. When we deliver the meals, we make sure we are delivering the correct meals according to the list. We knock on the door and make sure to say hello to the person we deliver to (that’s our favorite part). If no one answers, we call the Meals on Wheels office to let them know so they can check in to make sure they are okay. Once we are finished with our deliveries, we have lunch ourselves either at the Senior Center or a local restaurant.

If you want to find out more about Meals on Wheels check out
their website at: https://www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org/

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