Meals on Wheels of Western South Dakota needs volunteers

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) – Rising grocery prices has brought about folks on fastened incomes, just like the aged, to show elsewhere to get their meals wants met, inserting a heavy burden on non-profit organizations like Meals on Wheels.

Meals on Wheels of Western South Dakota wants volunteers to assist drive meals to residence certain senior residents within the Black Hills. The rise in folks requesting meals has led the group so as to add a further route but in addition makes the necessity for volunteers extra pressing.

“Our volunteers come to our kitchen, choose up a few coolers crammed with cold and warm meals after which ship it out to the group. It takes wherever from 45 minutes to about an hour and a half to do a route, often between 10 and 15 stops,” mentioned Tim Schnider, group useful resource coordinator for Meals on Wheels of Western South Dakota.

At the moment Meals on Wheels wants about 13 volunteers per week. Volunteers have to be over the age of 18, have a sound driver’s license, and have insurance coverage on their vehicles. Along with bringing meals, volunteers supply a stage of companionship to most of the home-bound the group serves.

Schnider says volunteering is a rewarding feeling. “Getting to assist out the seniors in the neighborhood and simply to listen to their tales, getting to fulfill their pets, and tales of their previous and their kids and it’s exhausting to clarify how rewarding it’s till you’ve really gone out and carried out it.”

For extra data on how one can signal as much as volunteer head to the Meals on Wheels of Western South Dakota web site.

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