What's New
May 27th, 2010
Empower the Elders
Fundraising Luncheon

 
 

Making a Critical difference

OUR MOST-VULNERABLE SENIOR CITIZENS COUNT ON US
TO HELP THEM THROUGH TOUGH TIMES

It goes without saying that no one should go without life’s basics: food, shelter and utilities. Yet those basics are a luxury to thousands of people in the Denver metro area.

At the Association for Senior Citizens, we help the most vulnerable of our community’s senior citizens maintain their dignity by providing them with life’s necessities.

Many of our senior citizens worked their entire adult lives, expecting to enjoy their golden years of retirement. Then life happened. Some are raising their grandchildren on their own. Others are faced with huge medical bills, due to an illness or disease — either their own or their spouse. Others have lost their pensions to bad funds management. Still others have watched their expenses increase, while their retirement checks have not kept pace. Our seniors are not looking for a hand out, just a little help up as they get their feet under them once again.

Last year, through the generosity of our sponsors and volunteers, we kept 53 seniors in their homes by paying their mortgage/rent payments through our emergency financial services. We kept another 213 families warm by paying their utility bills. We helped feed more than 8,097 people through our food bank. And for those who couldn’t make it to us, we delivered 2,133 meals, hot lunch through our Meals on Wheels program. All told, we performed more than 60,000 acts of charity and assistance to our most vulnerable elderly senior citizens.

Because we’re small, every donation we receive and every act of kindness we perform has a huge, instant effect on our grateful seniors.

Meet Lillian Callender one of (ASC) outstanding volunteers at Association for Senior Citizens. She has been the smiling face at our food bank sign-in table every week for the last for 24 years. Click here to read more about this amazing volunteer.