Volunteers Needed to Help Serve Impoverished Seniors
The Humanitarian Service Project (HSP) is in need of volunteers from the community to deliver groceries to impoverished senior citizens. HSP provides over 6.5 tons of nutritious food and other necessities every month to 132 seniors in the DuPage and Kane counties through its Senior Citizen Project (SCP). Currently, there are open routes for volunteers to deliver to seniors in the following areas: Downers Grove, Warrenville, Glendale Heights, Wheaton, Naperville, Woodridge, Darien, Westmont, and Willowbrook.
For the seniors enrolled in SCP, financial and health difficulties make it almost impossible to go out and purchase food on their own. Volunteer delivery drivers are needed to help bring groceries to those seniors every month. Drivers sign up for a route and a time slot for the scheduled Delivery Day (usually the third Saturday each month). Volunteers load up cars at HSP's center with groceries and the drivers go straight to the seniors' homes to deliver the food. Drivers need not commit to delivering every month. Those interested in volunteering on occasion can sign up as substitute drivers. Substitute drivers are volunteers who deliver to seniors when a regular driver is not able to make their route.
It is thanks to volunteer drivers that HSP is able to provide long term support for seniors in SCP. Monthly deliveries include selections of fifteen fresh fruits and vegetables, seven packages of frozen meat, six bags of non-perishable foods, several loaves of bread, and two bags of paper products. In addition to their groceries, every three months the seniors receive a package of personal care and hygiene products. If interested in becoming a Delivery Day driver or have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact HSP by emailing hsp@humanitarianservice.org or by calling 630-221-8340.
Contact the Humanitarian Service Project: hsp@humanitarianservice.org.
HSP's website: www.humanitarianservice.org
HSP's blog: humanitarianserviceproject.blogspot.com.
About The Humanitarian Service Project:
HSP's mission is to alleviate the pain and suffering that poverty creates in seniors and children living in DuPage and Kane counties, Illinois. Last year during the Christmas Offering Project, 2,014 children received gifts and over 400 impoverished families received groceries. With the Senior Citizen Project, HSP provides monthly food deliveries and secret pal gifts to 132 low-income seniors. The Children's Birthday Project reaches the youngest underprivileged, making birthdays and Christmas truly memorable occasions for 925 children. Feed the Kids provides 100 low-income families with groceries and fresh produce during the summer months. HSP conducts an annual school supply drive that benefits over 4,000 children by giving supplies to the DuPage Back to School Fair, Kane County's "Project Backpack" and directly to schools with a high percentage of poverty.