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Often the senior population in our society gets ignored. What's up with that? They have tons of interesting stories to tell and remember a time before lattes, and had to walk uphill both ways to school. I personally have no idea what either of those experiences are like, and I bet it would be interesting to hear about!
We have a few seniors in our housing sites that are lonely, and we don't want them to feel ignored anymore.
We need volunteers who want to hear about all those interesting stories by spending a little time each week on the phone with these seniors. I bet they'd even be interested in hearing about whatever interesting stories you have to tell as well!

Contact Stefanie Greenberg at sgreenberg@metcouncil.org or 212.453.6916

Tags: seniors

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Permalink Reply by Peter Deitz on January 16, 2009 at 12:04pm: Great action. Very cool. I bet the folks at TheExtraordinaires.org would be interested in this. All the best, Peter; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Abbie Smith-Howe on January 16, 2009 at 12:05pm: Thanks for the tip Peter, I'll check it out; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Charles Goeldner on January 20, 2009 at 11:48am: I toatally agree with your statement but I would be very interested in having an answer to the following,is this group mainly US oriented or Internationally.Agism is very prevalent Internationally and somehow has to be addressed and with some resolution and recognition; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Abbie Smith-Howe on January 20, 2009 at 12:11pm: Charles, Met Council works in NYC.; ▶ Reply to This

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