Ministry Information Sheet
Aid For Friends
| 1. | Description of Ministry | |||
| Aid For Friends (AFF)
is a free food and visitation program that serves the isolated
homebound, frail, ill and elderly who are not able to leave their homes
and who have no relatives or other community who may assist them in
purchasing or preparing food.
If you wish to enter the program, you will be interviewed in your home by a trained and qualified AFF volunteer. If it is determined that you are isolated and homebound, you can participate in and benefit from the program as a client. This even if you have income or assets which are above poverty levels. AFF provides such a person with up to seven free home-prepared dinners each week, which have to be heated prior to eating. Each week's meals are delivered by a Visitor who is to spend at least an hour conversing with that client. Often, as a result of that type of contact, the client and Visitor become friends and the Visitor performs errands and tasks for the client. |
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| 2. | Frequency/Schedule of Meetings/Activities | |||
| To provide dinners as an individual Cook, no special or extra time is required. When you are in your home preparing a meal, you merely place a balanced meal into a tray that is provided by AFF. You then freeze that dinner in your freezer. Whenever you wish, you leave any meals that you have prepared in one of the two freezers in the lower level of St. John's Church. To provide dinners as a member of a Group you participate only as a part of that Group's activities. For example, a Confirmation Class or Scout Group, or Catholic or Public School class can schedule a Cook- In as one of its activities and in a meeting of one or two hours prepare many meals. To serve as a Visitor you will see your Client in his or her home for at least one hour per week and give your client the necessary number of meals. Additional time is at your discretion to the extent that isolated homebound person has needs that you would like to assist in filling. | ||||
| 3. | Where do I perform service? | |||
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| 4. | Who are served? | |||
| Persons who are "isolated homebound". This includes the frail, elderly, ill or others who are not able to leave their homes and who have no relatives, friends or other community to assist them in buying and preparing food for their meals. | ||||
| 5. | Preparation | |||
| As an Individual | ||||
| 6. | Contact Person (s) | |||
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10/30/2007