2009 Day of Caring

United Way of Kern County unites the local business community and non-profit agencies in many different ways to benefit Bakersfield and our county. One of these ways is Day of Caring when volunteers from the business community join forces with the board members and staffs of the non-profit agencies to accomplish any task the agencies cannot accomplish on their own.

Day of Caring this year is September 12. Senior Serve has been paired with AERA Energy. They will be sending 30 or more volunteers to Senior Serve and 15 or more of our board and staff members will lead teams to do calling on our clients in the community. In three hours on that morning, hundreds of seniors will be called on, encouraged, given a small present, and enjoyed.

The morning starts with a wonderful breakfast at 7:30 at Stramler Park. By 8:30 our volunteers and staff will come to the Senior Serve office to be organized and trained. During the next couple of hours, each team will make three or four visits. At noon everybody will return to the office for a quick lunch and debriefing. The endeavor always turns out to be exciting and fulfilling as well as extremely helpful in keeping up with our senior clients.

Here are a few images from the 2009 Day of Caring.