DC4DC - WE ARE FAMILY: SENIOR SUPPORT

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Derek's DC4DC Food and Support Program for Low-income Seniors

Provide sustenance, support and companionship to low-income seniors this Thanksgiving
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Derek's DC4DC Food and Support Program for Low-income Seniors

Provide sustenance, support and companionship to low-income seniors this Thanksgiving
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Derek's DC4DC Food and Support Program for Low-income Seniors

Provide sustenance, support and companionship to low-income seniors this Thanksgiving

Project Summary

We Are Family mobilizes a committed corps of community volunteers to bring services, advocacy, organizing, and companionship into the homes of 450 isolated, low-income seniors each month.

This project ensures 16 seniors will get a visit this Thanksgiving. The visits not only provide companionship, but also ensure that our seniors do not feel alone or forgotten around the holidays, a time when many may experience a special sense of loneliness.

Equally as important, the Thanksgiving basket deliveries provide an opportunity to check in on
our seniors, provide assistance where possible, and identify broader needs that can be served.

In addition, it is also an opportunity for our seniors to build transformative, on-going relationships with their volunteers.

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More than 40% of seniors in Washington DC live alone. 1 in 3 are in danger of hunger and food insecurity due to mobility issues.

The greater social isolation of seniors suggests the critical need for services such as ours that reach out into the community, going to the places of greatest need, and helping seniors to continue to live independently in their own homes.

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Direct Impact of Your Project

This project allows Thanksgiving baskets to be delivered to 16 low-income seniors

Extended Impact on Your Partner Community

While most of our seniors live on their own and may not have a large social or family network with which they will spend the holidays, many will still share the Thanksgiving meal they have with others who are also in need.

Beyond this, these baskets will be delivered by 5 of our volunteers. They will have the opportunity to meet or spend time with our seniors.

One of We Are Family’s missions is to build community across boundaries such as race, age, class, religion, culture, and sexual orientation. We believe the coming together of diverse people in this way helps build a community where neighbors get to know each other and look out for one another as a matter of course. Our ultimate aim is to nourish such caring, just, and inclusive community, to awaken the sense of family amongst DC’s vibrant and diverse populations, building lasting, transformative relationships.