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Minor home repairs
This program features neighbor helping neighbor — fixing leaky faucets, changing light fixtures, or doing basic carpentry or other maintenance functions beyond the ability of many elderly people either to do it themselves or to pay to have it done.
Office staff will match the unique talents of volunteers with the needs of their elderly callers.
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Helen needed to move but couldn't afford moving expenses. And she had no family or friends in the area. She knew no one except the people at Seniors Helping Others, where she was an office volunteer. SHO executive director Deb Tanner came to the rescue, organizing a crew of volunteers who helped her with the move. The service, Helen says, "was above and beyond" anything she expected. Without Seniors Helping Others and its crew, Helen says, the move would have been difficult and costly. It just goes to show, she says, that the people at Seniors "bend over backwards to assist those in need." |