Volunteer : Meals on Wheels
Looking for a way to volunteer locally in Garner and help some neighbors?
Meals on Wheels allows older adults in Wake County to maintain their dignity and independence and remain in their homes. When a volunteer delivers a meal to a homebound recipient, we are not only providing a meal, but we are also providing a visit and a check up. It is comforting to family members to know that someone is stopping in daily to be sure that everything is okay.
Looking for an opportunity to serve your Garner neighbors?
Consider Meals on Wheels of Wake County
Meals on Wheels of Wake County, provides our homebound and senior neighbors with a nutritious hot meal, along with a check-in and visit. Our services provide the opportunity for seniors to continue living well nourished, independent and safe lives, in their own homes and communities.
Volunteer
The most convenient and impactful way to help is by becoming a volunteer. Volunteering only requires about 1-2 hours of your day to help feed an older or disabled neighbor in your community.
Need Meals?
The goal of Meals on Wheels of Wake County is to nourish and enrich our clients’ lives through the services we provide. Our Home-Delivered Meals program helps our clients maintain a healthy lifestyle and remain living independently by providing nutritious meals, a weekly safety check, and friendly interaction.
Volunteers Needed for The Wall That Heals Garner Display
Hundreds of volunteers are needed to assist the thousands of people who are expected to experience The Wall That Heals when it visits Garner’s Lake Benson Park on March 31 through April 3.
Hundreds of volunteers are needed to assist the thousands of people who are expected to experience The Wall That Heals when it visits Garner’s Lake Benson Park on March 31 through April 3. Recent visits by The Wall in Wake Forest and Tarboro had crowds of more than 20,000.
The Wall will be open 24 hours per day. There is no admission charge.
The biggest opportunity to serve is by volunteering to be an ambassador. Ambassadors are trained during a one-hour session on Wednesday, March 30 at 6 p.m.
The session includes information about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., The Wall That Heals, the Mobile Education Center that travels with The Wall, and instructions on how to find a particular name on The Wall. Ambassadors will be given tools to assist guests.
Volunteers can sign up for two or three-hour shifts, or multiple shifts, at the garnerwall.com website under the volunteer section.
The Wall That Heals is 376 feet long and 7.5 feet tall at its highest point. Its panels have been engraved with the names of the more than 58,000 United States service members who perished in the war.
The Wall That Heals travels with a Mobile Education Center that provides information about the war, the Memorial and items that have been left at The Wall.