Help support our community by attending About Care’s 3rd Annual Veterans’ Day/Holiday event: winetasting/art auction being held on November 8, 2013 from 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. at the amazing Vision Gallery, located in the City of Chandler building, 10 E. Chicago St., Chandler AZ 85225. The costs is $25 per person which includes beverages and light hors appetizers. It will be a wonderful event honoring those who volunteer for About Care and also those who have served our nation and now need our help.
We are looking for donations of local art for the event. If you or someone you know has some art that you would like to donate for this worthwhile event, please contact us.
The majority of About Care’s clients are our neighbors who have served in the military or are family members of former military members. About Care serves a generation that were our teachers, nurses, local store merchants – think of someone who was kind to you when you were young and now they are alone and economically disadvantaged with no one to help them.
About Care, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization serves the homebound elderly and disabled in Chandler and Gilbert. About Care’s Mission is to deliver caring, compassionate support services using trained volunteers.
About Care was created in 2005 because of the need to assist the elderly and disabled residents with services that enabled them to remain in their home, live with self-respect and dignity while encouraging independence.
About Care’s free services help postpone the expense of long-term care. The majority of individuals served by About Care are economically disadvantaged elderly widows of former military personnel. The majority of requests to About Care for services are for transportation to medical appointment or procedures. About Care also offers weekly transportation for shopping and errands, respite, reassurance phone calls, computer assistance and minor home repairs. The services are provided without charge by trained and insured volunteers -- compassionate, caring individuals who want to make a difference in someone’s life by offering their time.
If you are unable to make a monetary donation, About Care is always looking for volunteers with big hearts who really want to help others. For more information or to obtain a volunteer application, visit www.aboutcare.org. The About Care volunteers do “small things with great love that truly impact the lives of the homebound”.
In the past year, About Care’s volunteers, who currently number over 160 individuals, provided over 23,000 services, donated 60,000 hours and drove 220,000 miles for our homebound neighbors of Chandler and Gilbert.
