Help an Older Adult Shovel Snow

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Volunteer with Village in the Ville this winter season to help an aging adult in the Clintonville, Beechwold, and University District neighborhood shovel their sidewalk, driveway, and stairs.

By shoveling their sidewalks, driveways, and steps, you're helping to ensure that our older neighbors will have safe access to our community. Ensuring safe accessibility to our community is fundamental for ensuring that our older neighbors can age in place - that is, in their home and in our community - for as long as possible. So, please don't underestimate the value of providing a service that's as simple as shoveling some snow.

Once you sign up to shovel snow, you'll be matched with an older adult from the Clintonville, Beechwold, or University District area. (We try out best to match our volunteers with an older adult that lives close to them.) Once matched, we ask that our volunteers reach out to their matches whenever it snows (more than two inches) to see if and when they might need their driveway, sidewalk, and stairs shoveled.

If you're someone who enjoys the winter weather and helping to make a difference in your community, this opportunity is for you! Not only will you get the satisfaction of making a difference by ensuring an older adult has safe accessibility to our community, but the satisfaction of friendship as well. That's because you'll have the opportunity to really get to know your match, as you help them for the rest of the winter season!

If you have any questions, please contact William Jones-Kline at 614-390-4827 or william.jones-kline@clintonvillecrc.org. He'd be happy to answer any outstanding questions you might have!