What's Happening at Oak City Cares

Mobile Showers and Laundry

During the month of May, we started providing showers and laundry through the use of mobile shower and laundry units. This allows us to provide these services in a safe and healthy way for our guests.

Memorial Day Weekend Meals

Rocky Top Catering, one of our long-time Weekend Meals volunteer groups, provided a hot barbecue meal for our friends on Memorial Day! Our guests absolutely loved it.

What's Coming Up

We are planning how we can gradually and safely move towards offering volunteer group prepared meals again. In June, we hope to begin transitioning our Weekend Meals Program to having three separate meal periods and volunteer group food providers onsite to prepare and serve meals. We're excited for this next phase! Our guests and staff at Oak City Cares have missed our volunteers greatly. We have created a sign-up form online for volunteer groups to provide a meal. Sign up here. We're all eager to return to a sense of normalcy and community again for all our services, but especially for our Weekend Meals Program. We want to ensure we do so in a safe and gradual way, following the recommendations from local government officials and the CDC. When we're able to have volunteers onsite again, in addition to our food providers, you can find information on our website and social media.

A Message to our Volunteers

Our staff, our partners, and especially our guests, miss our volunteers' smiling faces. We miss the ways you fill up our days with so much warmth and kindness. We are looking forward to being safely together again, but understand that we need to continue to be patient. We greatly appreciate all the donations - masks, meal supplies, non-perishable foods, and everything in between - that you have provided. Each donation has helped us to continue providing service. If you are looking for ways to support or help Oak City Cares during these periods of transition, please call or email Laura Martin, Volunteer Coordinator, at volunteercoordinator@oakcitycares.org or at 984-344-9603. Be well and stay safe.

Thank You to our Corporate Partners

Thank you to each of our corporate partners for the continued support during this uncertain time! Your partnership is invaluable to us at Oak City Cares and the friends we serve.

Thank You to our Community Partners

We are continually in awe of this community's support and generosity! Over the past few months, we have received many donations of face masks, face shields, food supplies, hand sanitizer, gloves - everything that helps us continue services in a safe way. Our community has rallied together to lend a helping hand to our most vulnerable friends and neighbors during this time. We cannot say thank you enough! Without these thoughtful donations, we wouldn't have continued operating as smoothly as we have. Chinese American Friendship Association Carolina Masks Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral Bedlam Vodka/Greybeard Distillery NC Asian Focus & Project Unity Wake County Commissioner Jessica Holmes St. Francis of Assisi Church Wake County Commissioner Vickie Adamson Kings Park International Church Chinese Congregation The Central Carolina Black Nurses Council, Inc. Activate Good White Memorial Presbyterian Church The Sathya Sai Center of Raleigh and many more!

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