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A place for everyone - where everyone matters...
Give the gift of your presence to an isolated senior, and get to know the history of your community at the same time!

We Are Family Senior Outreach Network has stepped out from under the wing of Northwest Settlement House. Our kick-off event was a huge success, thanks SO MUCH to those who were able to join us, it's you who makes this all possible!

Pictures from the event coming soon!

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NEWS ALERT!!
We Are Family's Co-Director, Mark Anderson featured on Bread for the World podcast on hunger...

May's Breadcast: Food stamp challenge: interviews with Rep. Jim McGovern (D - MA) and Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R - MO), food bank director George Jones, Mark Andersen from We Are Family senior services and nutritionist Tracy Fox, with music from Keith Green.

CLICK HERE to listen! ********************************************************************************

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.