Information: neighborlove.org
Neighbor Love, a service project ministry, brightened the day of seniors for Mother’s Day. Through its Adopt-a-Senior program, volunteers hosted a Mother’s Day’s party and gave gift bags to seniors at four nursing homes in Atlanta, Austell, Roswell and Snellville.
“Many times, elders, specifically nursing home residents, are a forgotten population,” said Adopt-a-Senior program founder Tom Sargeant. “The residents gain an incredible amount of joy and delight by the attention and kindness they are shown.”
Volunteers held a party for nursing home residents where they served food and drinks, socialized with them and delivered gift bags. They also delivered gifts, fruit, flowers and cards around to all the residents who cannot attend the party.
“We also organize parties for nursing home residents during Valentine’s Day, Father’s Day and Christmas,” added Sargeant.
People can support the Adopt-a-Senior program by becoming a general volunteer that helps assemble the gift bags, serve food and drink and deliver the gift bags to the residents; becoming a volunteer leader, to perform a specific duty at a particular event location that is critical to the success of our events; or becoming an overall event organization volunteer.
“We never know that when the little amount of kindness that is given to these nursing home residents would be just enough to give them enough hope, inspiration and motivation to extend their days longer,” adds Sargeant.
The Adopt-a-Senior program came into existence in February 2012 for Valentine’s Day at a Roswell nursing home. It expanded to two homes by Father’s Day and four homes in Metro Atlanta by December 2012. It is now in six homes in Central Illinois and one home in Charlotte, NC.
Neighbor Love works to provide hope and inspiration to nursing home residents, orphans, widows, persons with special needs as well as unemployed and underemployed persons.
In other news: The Main Street Academy's male scholars consisting of third, fourth and fifth graders, started an initiative to raise $1,000 for Project Success' 100 Black Men of America. 100 Black Men of Atlanta was now one of eight 100 Black Men organizations based in cities around the nation. Through its programs, members have become actively involved in educational issues affecting youth, public policy, as well as economic, social and health issues impacting the communities it serves.
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