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42 - CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, April 21 - April 27, 2000
Volunteers
Continued from page 36
munities. The Senior Corps
involves seniors in three types of
services: Foster Grandparents
offers support to children with
special needs; Senior Companions
provide assistance to help elderly
individuals live independently;
and Retired and Senior Volunteers
(RSVP) provides a variety of
services that range from leading
local museum tours to teaching
adult education computer classes.
Foster Grandparents and Senior
Companions meet income eligi-
bility requirements, serve 20
hours per week and receive small
stipends. Foster Grandparents are
low-income individuals age 60
and older who carry out the chal-
lenging and rewarding work of
helping special and exceptional
needs children, including those
with physical and specific learn-
ing disabilities.
Foster Grandparents also works
with youth needing literacy assis-
tance and with teen parents and
their children. Examples of the
many activities Foster Grandpar-
ents undertakes includes assisting
in preschool intervention pro-
grams with children who have
speech and hearing difficulties,
developmental delays and learn-
ing disabilities; working in anti-
substance abuse programs in
schools; working with boarder
babies in hospitals; and providing
youth with literacy skills.
Senior Companions is com-
posed of low-income older adults.
Program participants serve as
companions and friends to older
people who need help, and fill a
variety of roles that include pro-
viding families of the frail elderly
with respite services, serving as
advocates and offerring informa-
tion sources about benefits and
services.
Senior Companions usually
serves two to four clients. Many
Senior' Companions participants
serve clients for several years and
form very meaningful friendships.
Senior Companions participants
receive reimbursement for trans-
portation, meals during service,
annual physical examinations,
and accident and liability insur-
ance while on duty.
RSVP volunteers serve from a
few to more than 40 hours a week
in organizations that range from
hospitals and youth recreation
centers, to local police stations
and education facilities. RSVP
involves seniors age 55 and older
in service that matches their per-
sonal interests and makes use of
their skills and lifelong experi-
ences.
Examples of volunteer opportu-
nities under RSVP include
instructing in adult basic educa-
tion; advocating in court for those
unable to handle their affairs; pro-
viding home repair and weather-
Submitted photo
ization services; and caring for
developmentally disabled adults.
RSVP volunteers serve without
compensation but may be reim-
bursed for such expenses as trans-
portation. Insurance protection is
provided to volunteers while they
are on assignment.
For information on the Senior
Corps programs, contact the
Corporation for National Service
at 800-424-8867.
The Service Corps of Retired
Executives or SCORE is a
13,000-member volunteer associ-
ation sponsored by the U.S. Small
Business Administration (SBA).
SCORE is composed of retired
executives and small business
owners. SCORE volunteers pro-
vide free counseling to small busi-
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ness owners. Teams of volunteer
counselors also assist small busi-
Cancer survivors contribute to quilt
Almost 40 people have donated material for the Beebe Med-
ical Center Auxiliary Craft Group's Survivors' Quilt. The
group has received material from men and women who have
survived all types of cancer. The group still needs more ma-
terial before pieces are actually sewn together. Fall is the
projected completion time for the quilt that will be hung in
the Tunnell Cancer Center lobby. The purpose of the quilt is
to show cancer patients there is hope for survival.
Cancer survivors who would like to donate material for the
quilt project may send a quarter yard of all cotton material,
either new material or from old clothing, to Beebe Medical
Center, Tunnell Cancer Center, 424 Savannah Road, Lewes,
DE 19958. Submissions should include a name, address, tele-
phone number and how long the contributor has been a can-
cer survivor.
Craft group members photographed shown standing with
quilt squares are (l-r) Gwen Fisher, chairwoman; Phyllis
White; Eva Fleming, co-chairwoman; and Marion Hecock. In
front are Nancy Horneck and Joyce Gresco.
I
hess owners in the areas of plan-
ning and management, and they
offer seminars and workshops on
major considerations in running a
business. Volunteers work in or
near their home communities to
provide management counseling
and training to first-time entrepre-
neurs and current small business
owners. They meet with clients at
a SCORE chapter office, an SBA
office or at the client's place of
business. To locate the SCORE
office nearest you, call 800-634-
0245 or contact your nearest SBA
office.
Older people with an interest in
history and the great outdoors
may volunteer their time with the
National Park Service Volunteers
in Parks,. or VIP program. The
National Park Service is entrusted
with preserving more than 360
national parks in the United
States. In 1995, more than 77,000
people volunteered in •almost
every park in the national park
system: in big cities, in small
towns and in remote wilderness
areas. Volunteers may work a few
hours a week or per month, sea-
sonally, or full time. They may
work weekdays, weekends, dur-
ing the day or at night.
This is just a partial list of the
resources I found while searching
for information of the subject of
senior volunteer opportunities.
On the Internet there is a search
engine for matching volunteers
with the needs of your communi-
ty. It can be found at <www.vol- "
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