Do you want to help your friends and neighbors age in place? Are you looking for ways to help out in the community? Many things that we do easily when we are 40 may not be so easy to do when we are 80. As you age wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to stay in your own home?
Village on the Hill provides services to members such as replacing smoke detector batteries, taking trash cans out to the street, changing light bulbs that require standing on a ladder, etc. These may seem like little things to you but to many it is the difference between being able to stay in their own home or having to move. You can help! We are looking for volunteers to help perform these minor tasks. An hour or two of your time each month can make a huge difference in someone’s life.
One thing that will not change as a result of the new transportation program is our ongoing need for volunteer drivers. The new transportation bus system will provide rides to and from Sonora and Modesto several days a week, but that won’t help the many people living here on the hill to get to the local stores, pharmacy, banks, and post office. Additionally we’ll still need volunteer drivers to take people to medical appointments in Sonora when the bus is not an option. Some people need rides to Jamestown three times a week for dialysis; others need radiation treatments or chemotherapy five days a week. The bus to Sonora will operate three days a week and may not coincide with the need for these medical rides. To accommodate all these situations, we still need volunteer drivers willing to provide rides Tuesday through Friday between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
If you want to learn more about what’s involved, please email us at: info@southsidecommunityconnections.org, or call us at 209-962-7303. Commitment is flexible on a month by month basis.