08-04-2025
Wheelchair donation
Apr. 7—MIDLAND — Senior Life Midland (SLM) for 40 plus years has served our most vulnerable, our homebound seniors through an array of services from delivering a hot, nutritious meal, which includes a visit from a caring volunteer, providing handyman services to ensure clients are safe, providing needed additional items such personal hygiene items, additional food, even wheelchairs when available.
On April 8, a longtime supporter, American Legion Auxiliary Unit 19, Midland will donate and deliver 28 wheelchairs to Senior Life Midland at 1:30 p.m.
During January, SLM's Community Volunteer Program (CVP) hosted an MLK Day project to collect donations to purchase much needed wheelchairs as the need has grown. A wheelchair enables physically limited individuals to increase their independence, whether they are in their homes or when they are being taken to an appointment, a news release said.
"Senior Life Midland is one of our favorite and most trusted partners as they work hard to meet needs of seniors in our community and through their agency serve many of our veterans. We work together all throughout the year on important projects, when we saw their urgent call to action for a request for wheelchairs, we wanted to step up to help. We are so proud of our unit and our hard work to be able to do important things like this," Jane Bennett, President of the local American Legion Unit 19, said in the release.
Executive Director of Senior Midland, Kathleen Kirwan Haynie, is \thankful for community partners like The American Legion Auxiliary. "We assess the ongoing, evolving local needs of our local seniors, and through grassroots efforts, we are able to help our elderly neighbors no matter what is going on in our economy," she said.
