Volunteer driver or helpful neighbor for seniors in Bethesda

Bethesda Metro Area Village is seeking volunteers to become occasional service providers for our members - senior citizens in the downtown Bethesda and surrounding areas.

Volunteers can choose to help as a driver (driving seniors to or from doctor's appointments, etc), a notetaker during medical appointments, with friendly check-ins (phone callsand/or visits), absent owner services (such as watering plants or picking up packages)or to do light home repair tasks (such as lifting boxes, fixing door hinges, hanging drapes, etc), limited snow removal, or provide limited technical assistance for computers and other devices.

Our most-requested service is rides to doctor appointments during weekdays.These rides are crucial for our members and provide a way to get to know the member during conversation on the ride.

Volunteer service providers can be any age (over 18), and do not have to be members of BMAV themselves. You choose which service requests you would like to accept - there is no requirement to take any minimum number of requests and you do what is convenient for you. Most requests are on weekdays but there is great flexibility in dates.

Volunteers fill out an application and go through a background check and a short training. Requests and communication is through email.

Volunteering is a wonderful way to contribute to your community. If you would like to help seniors to age in place in their homes and increase connection with their community, we would love to have you.

For more information, check outwww.bmavillage.org/volunteer and then contact us at [email protected] or 240-630-2628.

For a response, you must email rather than clicking the box here.

NOTE that for the safety of our volunteers and members we have safety protocols in place and all members making service requests have been vaccinated.