WE ARE FAMILY SENIOR OUTREACH NETWORK INC
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Mission Statement
We Are Family mobilizes a committed corps of community volunteers to bring friendship, services and advocacy into the homes of low-income seniors in several inner-city neighborhoods in Washington DC. More than simply a social service agency, We Are Family is an experiment in building just, caring, and inclusive community -- help us to realize that dream!
About This Cause
Give the gift of your presence to an isolated senior -- and get to know the history of your community at the same time! We Are Family serves over 1,000 seniors each month in the Columbia Heights, Shaw, North Capitol Street, Petworth, and Adams-Morgan neighborhoods. We bring advocacy, services, organizing, and companionship into the homes of isolated, low-income elderly, while helping to build friendships across boundaries like race, class, religion, age, culture, and sexual orientation. Most of our work is done by volunteers – especially including senior leaders -- coordinated by co-directors Mark Andersen and Tulin Ozdeger who together have more than four decades of experience serving seniors and fighting poverty in these neighborhoods. While many of those who help do We Are Family’s work are seniors -- they are the people who, after all, have built this community -- we need you as well. The possibilities are truly endless. We are able to tailor a volunteer task to whatever time or gift you might have, from helping out once a year on holidays, to calling lonely seniors once a week, to making home visits or delivering groceries on Saturday mornings once or twice a month, to pairing up individual volunteers with nearby seniors, and beyond. Please join us! More than simply a social service agency, We Are Family is an experiment in building just, caring, and inclusive community -- help us to realize that dream! (For more information, please check out our website, www.wearefamilydc.org, or contact Mark at 202-487-8698c, marka@wearefamilydc.org., or Tulin, 202-423-3858, tulino@wearefamilydc.org )