A place for everyone - where everyone matters…
Please join us to celebrate the 50th birthday of We Are Family Co-Director, Mark Andersen, and to fuel the work of We Are Family!
When: July 25, 2009, 4:00 -7:00 PM
Where: St. Stephen’s Church, 1525 Newton St., NW (Corner of 16th & Newton, 4 blocks from the Columbia Heights Metro)
We will have a tasty selection of Middle Eastern hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction, and We Are Family volunteer recognition awards.
In lieu of gifts, a $25 donation to We Are Family is suggested, in advance or at the door - but all are welcome regardless of ability to donate. To RSVP/donate, please click on the donate icon.
We Are Family’s Mission
We Are Family serves seniors in the Shaw, North Capitol Street, Adams-Morgan, Petworth, and Columbia Heights neighborhoods. We bring advocacy, services, organizing, and companionship into the homes of the elderly, while helping to build friendships across boundaries like race, class, religion, age, culture, and sexual orientation.
Most of our work is done by volunteers, coordinated by a single full time staffer Mark Andersen who has nearly two decades of serving seniors in these neighborhoods.
While many of those who help do the work of We Are Family are seniors themselves — who, after all, have built this community — *we need you as well.* The possibilities are truly endless. Mark is able to tailor a volunteer task to whatever time or gift you might have, from helping out once a year on holidays, to calling lonely seniors once a week, to making home visits or delivering groceries on Saturday mornings once or twice a month, to pairing up individual volunteers with nearby seniors, and beyond.
Please join us! More than simply a social service project, We Are Family is an experiment in building just, caring, and inclusive community — help us to realize that dream!
For more information, please feel free to contact Mark at 202-487-8698, or marka@wearefamilydc.org.
WE ARE FAMILY Reflection
“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look and say: “This is not just.”
-Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
