Once again our community partners at the Southern Maine Area Agency on Aging have reached out to us (because students have responded willingly in the past!) to ask for help on behalf of a client. He is an elderly man who is in a rehab facility, and who needs help to collect, box, and move his personal belongings from the furnished apartment where he lived before he went into the facility. He will transport himself, and meet a volunteer (or better, two volunteers) at the apartment, where he can oversee but is not physically able to collect and box his personal belongings. No furniture will be moved; only clothing, books and papers, and other assorted personal belongings, amounting to about 4 or 5 boxes. The apartment is on Mellon Street in Portland, and the belongings need to be transported and delivered to the rehab facility, Saint Joseph Manor on Washington Avenue in Portland. If you can round up the boxes, so much the better!
If you can help, please contact Sylvia Harkins at the Southern Maine Area Agency on Aging, 396-6553 or sharkins@smaa.org.
Thanks for your consideration of this, and for all the fabulous service of all kinds performed by members of the USM community this academic year! Our total of reported community service, service learning, and internship work for non-profit community partners in 2011-2012 is 71,779.6 hours!
Yours in commitment to community,
ATM
Andrea Thompson McCall
Director of Community Service Learning
University Interfaith Chaplain
University of Southern Maine
P.O. Box 9300
Portland, ME 04104-9300
Phone 207-228-8284
FAX 207-228-8403
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