Welcome To The Web Site For

AID FOR FRIENDS

Aid For Friends Frail Elderly Outreach Center

Aid For Friends is a registered 501 C-3 nonprofit organization.

1974 - 2008

Double Click on the below links

AFF Newsletter September 2008

See our CIRCLE of SERVICES

Pennies for Friends - How you can help!

National and Local Awards plus

Memorial & Congratulation Cards

Can you HELP in the FUTURE?

Volunteers Needed

Wish List For Clients

"How Those in the Business Community Can Help Us"

WOW!!!

LOOK AT WHAT THIS GROUP DID!

Our Annual Report

AID FOR FRIENDS MISSION STATEMENT

Aid For Friends' mission is to serve needy, isolated shut-ins, primarily the frail elderly, in the 5 county Greater Philadelphia area, with free daily home-cooked meals delivered weekly by empathetic volunteer visitors, and also to provide shut-ins with free out reach services. The goal is to help our homebound "client/friends" maintain their cherished independence by supporting their determination to remain in their own homes for as long as possible and to enhance their quality of life.

Who We Are & What We Do

We are 16,000 volunteers - from all walks of life, from just about every religious orientation, color, creed and economic status. We live in every corner of the 5 County Greater Philadelphia area -just like you,

Since our inception in 1974 - we have steadily grown day by day year by year - one volunteer at a time. We initially served 11 people - today we serve over 2000, providing each one with 7 free, home-cooked meals and an hour of friendly visiting each week (over 13 million free meals, and thousands and thousand of compassionate, friendly visits in the past 33 years)

We would love to have you join us as a:

1. Cook - cook an extra portion of your meal and freeze it immediately - we supply the trays, menu sheets, and plastic bags

2. Visitor - you choose the person you would like to visit and bring seven home-cooked meals (prepared by the cooks) to the same client/friend, each and every week.

3. Driver -- we desperately need drivers to bring supplies to our 300 sites and to sometimes move meals from our office - warehouse site to another site that has run short of meals.

4. Contributors - we need individual contributors, organizations, businesses, and charitable foundations - to help us meet the financial obligations necessary to run Aid For Friends. Please be aware that because of our wonderful volunteer network of cooks who use their own food, visitors and drivers who use their own cars and gas, and countless other volunteers who work in the office, warehouse, maintain the building and the grounds and perform a myriad of other tasks, every $1.00 contributed translated into $6.22 of direct services to our wonderful client/friends.

We must raise out entire budget of $1,098,000(one million ninety-eight thousand dollars) every year because all that we do for our disabled frail elderly homebound is free.- Free daily meals, supplemental food, all 16 ancillary projects to support our shut ins and enhance their quality of their lives.

To learn more about Aid For Friends and our outreach to the frail elderly, you may click on any of the underlined sections; Or call us at 215- 464- 2224

"YOUTH helping AFF"

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