Volunteering to deliver meals:

Volunteers are the lifeblood of Alamance County Meals on Wheels. Each day, between 18 and 36 volunteers deliver approximately 250 meals to homebound senior citizens of Alamance County and surrounding areas. For many of these people, it will be the only meal they have during the day. Delivering more than just meals, volunteers provide a smiling face, friendship and care to the elderly of our community. You can make many seniors happy in just 60 minutes with just a little gas and a warm heart.

The basics of home-delivered meal volunteering:

  • Each route has no more than 16 houses to deliver to.
  • Most routes are less than 15 miles long.
  • Each volunteer is trained by an ACMOW staff person during their first delivery experience.
  • Each volunteer is provided a packet which includes: directions, which are turn by turn to each client’s home; a pencil; hot pad; and menus.
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  • Volunteers pick up meals to deliver at one of our nine drop off locations throughout the county.

    • Volunteer opportunities include:
    Regular Delivery Route Volunteers

  • Are asked to deliver one day every four weeks on the same route.

  • Can choose the area/route where they want to deliver meals.
    Substitute Delivery Route Volunteers
  • Deliver when there is a volunteer vacancy. Substitute drivers choose which route(s) they would like to substitute for and which days they might be free to assist.

    • Meal Distribution Site Greeters
  • Be a person who helps organize the volunteer packets and assists the day’s volunteers in getting their meals to their vehicles at our Burlington location. Greeters volunteer from 9:30 until 10:45 a.m.

    • Emergency Meal Distribution
  • Once a year on a Saturday in November, Meals on Wheels delivers all the emergency meals for each of the clients. This is a great opportunity for someone who can’t deliver during the week. Each volunteer is given boxes which contain shelf-stable meals to deliver to each client’s home.

    • Groceries on Wheels Grocery Shoppers
  • Are matched one-on-one with a person unable to shop for themselves. Shoppers help make grocery lists, collect client’s money, go shopping, and assist in placing the groceries in the pantry. Volunteers may volunteer at a time which is convenient for them and the client.

    • Event Volunteers
  • Volunteers are needed in September for our Rubber Duck Dash For The Cash fundraiser. This event requires a lot of assistance from the community. Volunteers are needed to do a variety of things from dressing like a duck to selling duck adoptions and helping race the ducks.

    • For more information about volunteering, please call 336.228.8815 or email volunteers@alamancemow.org.