Go Grocery Shopping with a Visually Impaired Man in Dorchester, MA!

Description

This visually impaired senior citizen lives in Dorchester and needs a volunteer to take him to the grocery store, be a sighted guide for recreational walking and also read his mail to him. This volunteer opportunity is once a week for 2-hours per week. A CAR AND VALID LICENSE IS REQUIRED FOR THIS VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY! The schedule is flexible. The participant is a smoker. He will not smoke while meeting with the volunteer. We ask that the volunteer is ok with the smell of smoke in the apartment.

Qualifications

• A CAR AND VALID LICENSE IS REQUIRED FOR THIS VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY!
• The schedule is flexible.
• The participant is a smoker. The volunteer is ok with the smell of smoke in the apartment.

Skills

• Reading mail
• Paying bills
• Internet Use/Technology
• Medical Transportation
• Going grocery shopping
• Running errands in the community
• Recreational activities such as being a running/walking sighted guide
• Other Clerical tasks

Benefits

• Create a positive impact in the life of a neighbor in need.
• Build a relationship with someone in your community.
• Join a team of over 200 volunteers across the state that helps create a difference in the blind and low vision community.

Pay

N/A

Schedule

Flexible based on the participant's needs. Typically, volunteers devote 1-2 hours a week or every other week.

Benefits

• Complete a MABVI Volunteer application.
• Completing the online, modular MABVI Volunteer Training.
• Schedule a time to chat via Zoom with a member of the MABVI Volunteer Team/Submit a CORI.
• MABVI matches you with a MABVI participant!