“I love being a volunteer for Meals on Wheels. The best part of my month is seeing Barbara and the seniors I deliver to. Thank you for all you do, I’m honored to be a small part.”
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Meals on Wheels
“I love delivering meals, and I always spend a few minutes with each senior to have a friendly conversation. It is so rewarding.”
Give a senior a well-being check and a friendly face – often the volunteer is the only person they see all day!
Nutritious lunches are delivered to homebound seniors mid-morning each day Monday-Friday.
Volunteers pick up meals from their assigned satellite location and drive their own vehicles to deliver meals to 10-15 seniors.
It takes about 1-2 hours of your time. Volunteers deliver as often as they like: once a week, once a month, etc.
Note: Must have a valid DMV driver’s license and vehicle.
Meals on Wheels Volunteer Job Description
Learn More About Meals on Wheels
Corporate Volunteers: Your company or group can commit to a set day each week or month to allow employees to leave work to deliver Meals on Wheels. Each business has an in-house coordinator who recruits and schedules employees to deliver on the organization’s assigned day. Interested? Please contact Laura Anderson, landerson@loaa.org, (540) 345-0451 ext 3055.
Virginia Insurance Counseling and Assistance Program (VICAP)
Volunteers are trained to provide Health Insurance Counseling by phone or in person by appointment at an LOA location. Answer questions about Medicare, Medicaid, Medigap, long-term care insurance, and assist with understanding medical bills. Volunteers are unbiased, not affiliated with any insurance agency, and are there to guide the older individual to the right plan for them.
VICAP Volunteer Job Description
Diners Clubs
Congregate meals programs provide an activity and nutritious lunch to seniors who are not homebound. Diners Clubs meet at various locations on varied days of the week. Volunteers help serve lunch, refill drinks, help with the activity, set up, and take down event decorations.
A Matter of Balance/Tai Chi Class Volunteer Leader
A Matter of Balance is an evidence-based, award-winning program designed to help older adults reduce the fear of falling and increase physical activity. The program teaches participants to think about the fear of falling as being controllable and set realistic goals to increase activity.
Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention is an enjoyable program that helps to improve muscular strength, flexibility, balance, and stamina. This program is for older adults with mild, moderate, and severe joint involvement and back pain, and who have a higher risk of falling.
Volunteers are trained to lead classes that promote falls prevention methods, exercises, and activity for older adults.
Learn More About Falls Prevention Programs
Annual Volunteer Opportunities
Soup for Seniors – January/February: Annual Canned Food Drive
- Pick up collected food: volunteers drive their own vehicles to pick up food collected at a drop-off location and bring it to our main Soup for Seniors site.
- Help unload food from donors’ cars at our main collection site.
- Check/sort cans of food in an assembly line format.
- Pack the cans of food into sturdy cloth bags in an assembly line format.
- Deliver the bags of food to our Meals on Wheels sites, Diners Club sites, or senior independent living centers. Some volunteers will deliver to individual seniors’ homes.
Learn more about Soup for Seniors
Let’s Give Lunch – June: Annual boxed lunch fundraiser for Meals on Wheels
- Box folding: volunteers fold the donated flat cardboard boxes that will contain the lunch.
- Food assembly: assemble the already prepared food into a meal container in an assembly line format. NO cooking is involved. Be prepared to stand for a 2-hour shift.
- Lunch box assembly: pack each cardboard box with a meal, water, cutlery, and dessert in an assembly line format. Be prepared to stand and lift lightweight boxes for 2 hours.
- Deliver boxed lunches: volunteers are needed to drive their own vehicles to deliver boxed lunches to the local businesses and other customers that ordered a lunch. Shifts will vary depending on routes and time that meals are requested for delivery. Vehicles of all types can be used but we could use several large vehicles for some of the big orders.
Santa for a Senior – December
Help sort and tag gifts donated for our seniors and/or deliver gifts to the seniors.
Diners Club Presenters – year round
Volunteers are needed to provide a fun or educational program (on a topic of interest to seniors), or an activity (arts and crafts, music, etc.) to a Diners Club group.