Growing old can be hard. People want to stay in their homes. They can feel alienated and lonely as they have trouble navigating their community.
In Northern Virginia, older adults attempting to age in place face limited transportation options. They need a safe way to get to doctors’ appointments, supermarkets, and other places. And that’s where NV Rides helps out.
NV Rides coordinates a network of local partner organizations driven to help our older neighbors with their transportation needs. Through our partner organizations throughout Northern Virginia, well-organized volunteer drivers are available to help older adults with rides, conversation, and kindness.
You want to help your community, but you think you don’t have enough time to make a meaningful contribution. Stop. Right. There. There are neighbors you can help right now. They are older adults isolated in their homes because they can no longer drive.
You can help them right now by becoming a volunteer driver.
A volunteer driver is driven by compassion. All you need is a car and a few hours of spare time to make miles of impact.
Volunteer driving is a service to people. When you are a volunteer driver, you are getting somebody somewhere that they would not be able go without your help.
You have always been so kind and thoughtful to me with rides to my doctor appointments. It makes me feel more secure knowing there is someone that I can call if I need help with getting to the doctor or grocery store. Thank you for being there for me.
I’m a driver for Shepherd’s Center and find the NV Rides database great. If a day opens up for me, I go to the database to see if anyone needs a ride. I travel a lot and this is a wonderful feature.
Volunteer driving is “not a big, heavy lift. All you need is a car and to know how to drive.