Volunteers
Meals On Wheels provides valuable human contact to the elders served by staff and volunteers. A hot meal delivered with a smile can be much more than a nutritious dinner. It is often the high point of the day for both volunteers and seniors.
If you can spare one or two hours a week Meals On Wheels is looking for your help. We need volunteer drivers to deliver Meals On Wheels to local senior citizens. Once or twice a week, once a month, or every day - you pick a delivery schedule that works for you! Your gift of time will ensure that our elderly citizens have a hot meal every day.
What we need from you:
- Own automobile and fuel
- Valid driver's license
- Insured automobile
- Ability to read a map and locate addresses
- Neat appearance
- Understanding of and compassion for clientele served
- Pleasant personality
- Physically able to perform the job
- Dependability
- Must maintain confidentiality of clients served
What you would be required to do:
- Arrive early enough to begin your route
- Receive coolers and route list from site volunteer
- Ensure you have all the correct meals according to the route list
- Deliver correctly labeled trays to the proper persons
- Stop to chat awhile with each person
- Report anything unusual to Meals On Wheels office staff
- Return coolers at the end of your delivery
