(Spirit Lake)-RSVP volunteers are finding unique ways to be of service during the pandemic, KUOO’s Becky Thoreson has details:
Volunteers with the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program continue to find new ways to connect with students during the pandemic.
Dickinson County RSVP Coordinator DeNeitt VanDenbroeke says one volunteer is using her art skills to help children. “This actually came about through my volunteer, Judy Hart, who was using her artistic skills to help her 3 year old great grandson cope during the covid pandemic. He was missing his peers, so she started sending him artistic pictures of dinosaurs that she had drawn, because he just loves dinosaurs. She was telling me about that, and offered to do the same for any other children in the area that might be having the same kind of problem. I reached out to the Okoboji Elementary School Counselor who got back to me and said that she had a student she thought would really benefit from Judy’s drawings, and so we set this up, and Judy sends to him some of her drawings and the student just loves receiving her artwork.”
She adds that anyone 55 or better may volunteer with RSVP. “Anyone that might have some artistic skills or other skills that they think would benefit the area youth, they could reach out to us and just let us know what they’re willing to share and we can maybe set them up with some type of project that would help both them and the students.”
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