AHEPA
AHEPA are low income apartments that we connect with four times a year, touching the lives of 20 to 27 residents each visit. We do various activities throughout the year including pizza lunches, trivia contests, bingo, and art and crafts. We also have an annual holiday party and cookies swap with Slightly Off Key Stringalongs playing Christmas carols, plus lunch and a gift for each participant.
Spring Arbor
Spring Arbor, an assisted living community located in Wilmington, is a new addition to our Seniors Program. So far, we have had the pleasure of providing bingo games with prizes for everyone, a card making activity, and a holiday party in December with homemade cookies and gifts for all. We look forward to expanding this program in a similar manner to AHEPA.
Cookies and Crafts always bring smiles from our seniors.
Sometimes when the Slightly Off Key Stringalongs perform, the residents like to dance.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
When Assistance League of Greater Wilmington was first formed inn 2008, the charter members inaugurated our first philanthropic program, Operation School Bell, providing backpacks with school clothing, hygiene kits and books for the Grandparent Support Network, a diverse group of grandparents raising their grandchildren. The grandchildren came from a number of different schools and all met the criteria established for our program. It was also the beginning of the relationship between Assistance League and the grandparents themselves. Operation School Bell Program has expanded into 25+ schools in three counties and includes many more grandchildren and grandparents!
“You will never know how much you have helped. I just want you to know I really do appreciate everything. And once again, thank you so much.