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Beth & David
Acton, MA

This web site allows us to communicate with people by group-email, and to post past-emails, photographs, and other information.

Hannah Keenan's Helpers
Acton, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Caring for Carol
Acton, MA

Welcome to Lotsa Helping Hands - a really simple way to organize volunteers in our community! if you choose to join this community (organized around helping Carol Bull as she heals from a broken neck) you'll be alerted when new tasks are added (driving etc.) as well as be able to pick a day or two - ;-) to deliver a meal! She is unable to drive and fairly immobilized - so any help is greatly appreciated!

Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church - Caring Servants + Lay MInisters
Acton, MA

Welcome to the Mt. Calvary - Lotsa Helping Hands Caring Servants Community. This website provides a coordinated schedule system for people to serve by walking with others as we do life together. We love others by lending a hand. This website is part of the Caring Servants Ministry at MCLC. As a church family, we provide meals, transportation to appointments, spiritual companionship, and other caring services in times of need.

“Mt. Calvary is more than a church you visit once a week to listen to a sermon. It is a community that follows our savior, Jesus Christ, in practical ways that are life-giving. Christian friendship is shared in faith life, life groups, opportunities to serve, and groups and programs for Mt. Calvary Kids & Youth. It begins with a casual conversation or cup of coffee with a new friend. We’ve found a home in the Mt. Calvary faith community. There is more here than we ever expected.”

Stan's Helping Hands
Acton, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to get updates from stan, provide best wishes and help if needed.

The Chung Family
Acton, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Hanxing Yu
Andover, MA

We miss you, Han!

A lot of friends want to see if there is anything they could do to help Han’s family. So we set up a site for providing support and help in any possible way as well as for announcement and information sharing.

Han's funeral service will be held at 10am, Saturday, April 4th at Conte Funeral Home located at 28 Florence Street, Andover, MA  01810. 

Community membership need to be requested first. Upon approval, you can sign up tasks in Calendar section. Thanks a lot for your help!

We set up a memorial site for Han at http://hanxing-yu.forevermissed.com, where you can leave tribute or post stories/pictures.

Shiela's Helping Hands
Arlington, MA

Welcome to Shiela's Helping Hands! This site was created to help Shiela, Jen and Ben with weekday meals.

Between getting Ben to school, visiting Shiela at the hospital, picking Ben up from school, groceries, house cleaning, transportation, helping Ben with homework and having play time with Ben at home, Jen & Shiela need a wonderful support system to help them through this tough time.

Meals for Jill and Alyssa
Arlington, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. Many of you have inquired about providing meals for Jill and Alyssa. Jill and Alyssa are ready to start receiving those yummy and so very helpful meals, it will be very much appreciated as they care for Ava and Judah. They are happy to have food dropped off at their home which is located at: 15A Pine Ave. in Arlington. Liz Lee (Kestrel's) class will be happy to bring meals to Jill on Tuesday or Thursday's. Or, if you can kindly let Jill know when you will be dropping off your meal at Drumlin, she can arrange to have the food delivered from there. Some people have inquired about ordering meals, you can coordinate with Jill through this site. Thank you so much for your kindness!

Arlington Children's Center
Arlington, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Burr Library Gift Book Sale
Auburndale, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

gamsey
Auburndale, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Oslund Helping Hands
Auburndale, MA

On June 6, a fire broke out in the Oslund kitchen destroying most of the kitchen and leaving smoke damage throughout the apartment. As a result, the Oslunds will be staying in a long-term hotel in Waltham for the next month.

We started this community to provide support for the Oslunds during this transition period until their apartment is usable again.

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Auburndale, MA

Penny's Helping Hands
Ayer, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Kristina's Helping Hands
Bedford, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

JGMS Moving On
Bedford, MA

Welcome to our JGMS Moving On web site! This is a very special occasion as our sons and daughters transition from 8th grade to the high school.

We need your help to make this happen. Our chairs/coordinators will be updating this site regularly, so check back often to see how you can help.

Every little bit counts - from helping for an hour at cleanup or coordinating the decorations (no art experience required!)

Help to mark this special occasion for our special kids!

Belmont Neighbor Brigade
Belmont, MA

Belmont Neighbor Brigade is a network of volunteers that can be mobilized to help residents facing sudden crisis manage day-to-day tasks such as meal preparation, rides, and basic household chores. Using web-based coordination tools, we manage recipient requests and the recruitment of volunteers to fulfill those requests sensitively, quickly and free of charge.

Beverly ma
Beverly, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Advent Prayer & Care Team
Boston, MA

Christopher's Haven
Boston, MA

Welcome!  Christopher's Haven offers 7 furnished apartments at a deeply discounted cost to families who must temporarily relocate to Boston while their child undergoes cancer treatments.  This site provides a place for people in our area to support these families during their stay, which usually lasts 6 to 8 weeks.  Join us for a social activity, to help with errands, childcare, apartment upkeep projects, or to help at a fundraiser or other community awareness event.  Thank you for your interest!

Christopher's Haven
Boston, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Alex's Helping Hands
Boston, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Kathryn Magnoli
Boston, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Helping Hands For Shirley
Boston, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.
I am creating this page for my sister and her seven year old daughter, who was recently diagnosed with Neuroblastoma Cancer. They have been admitted to Boston Children's Hospital with no family or friends close enough to be there with them. Shirley will be started her chemo today.

Hospitality Homes
Boston, MA

Hospitality Homes provides free short-term housing in volunteer host homes for families and friends of patients seeking care at Boston-area medical facilities.
 
Since 1983, this unique, home-away-from-home lodging option has provided financial and emotional relief to visitors in need. Cumulatively, we have provided over 170,000 nights of lodging to 14,500 families. Hospitality Homes is the only hospital housing program in the Boston area that is open to all families regardless of nationality, income, age, illness, or treatment facility.
 
We are always looking for new volunteer hosts to join our network. As a host, you volunteer only when it is convenient for you, from the comfort of your own home. The only requirements of hosting are to provide a clean, comfortable place for guests to sleep and access to a bathroom; the rest of your hosting experience can be tailored to fit your lifestyle. Guests are responsible for their own meals and transportation.
 
To learn more about this unique and rewarding volunteer opportunity, or to fill out a volunteer application, please visit our website at http://www.hosp.org or call 1-888-595-4678. Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you.

Mosaic Boston
Boston, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Supporting the Latam Family
Boxford, MA

Please support the Latam family as they take time to grieve.

Friends of Les Muray
Brighton, MA

This is a site where you can go to find the latest updates on Les' condition, as well as to coordinate visits. The latter is important to help insure that he is not overwhelmed by visitors on some days, and left without them on others.

Will's Helping Hands
Brookline, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Mary's Community
Brookline, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Laura's Helping Hands
Burlington, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site, we set this website up for Laura and her family to help get through her battle with Breast Cancer. This site provides a place for Laura & her family to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.
We will set up a cooler outside of the house on the porch with a sign on it so they know when food is delivered and we don't bother Laura during recovery.

Jodi's Helping Hands
Burlington, MA

Jodi was diagnosed with breast cancer on St. Patrick's Day, 2011. She has been fighting it on and off for 2 years. The cancer has unfortunately returned. She is currently in stage 4 and about to start her 8th round of heavy duty chemo to stop the cancer from spreading.

Frank and Jodi Dickie have 3 children. Two live at home as well as Frank's mom who is ill and Jodi's mom who helps take Jodi to her doctor appointments. Her youngest daughter, Joan Ruth is 8 years old and attends the Memorial School.

The family continues to stay positive and they are living for each precious moment. Please support this family as best you can.

Thank you!

Temple Shalom Emeth Chicken Soup Brigade
Burlington, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

My mums friends
Cambridge, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Jim's helping hands
Cambridge, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Kathy 's Kidney Donation
Cambridge, MA

On September 3, 2013, our friend Kathy Watkins will be donating a kidney to friend and former coworker Peggy Heggarty Steck. So many of us have seen Kathy's generosity firsthand in the past, but this is a new, almost unbelievable level of giving.

Please check out this website to learn more about:

• How you can help Kathy and her husband Jon during the immediate recovery period;
• Peggy's experience, and the impact Kathy's kidney donation will have on Peggy and her family;
• How you can support causes important to Peggy and Kathy in honor of this special event; and,
• How to give the gift of life to other patients like Peggy through live kidney donation and other organ donor programs.

You can also send messages to Kathy via facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KatherineFayeWatkins?fref=ts.  And thank you for understanding that while Kathy may not be able to respond directly to your message, everyone's good wishes will be read and much appreciated.

Cards can be mailed to Kathy's home at 38 Valentine Street, Cambridge, MA 02139.

Please feel free to contact me if you would like any additional information or if I can help you in any way.  Please also feel free to pass this info along to anyone else who you think may be interested in this website.

Kathy and Peggy are two wonderful people who give so much to their families, friends and communities.  It is truly a real life miracle to have their lives come together in this way, and thanks to everyone who is supporting them on this journey.

Best,

Becky Fuentes

Cell: 617-688-2435

Email: beckysozanski@comcast.net

 

Peabody Middle School Musical 2012
Cambridge, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Help Rachel with her SDR Surgery
Chelmsford, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Caring Companion - Volunteering in Our Community
Concord, MA

We volunteer in Concord and surrounding communities to support families with elders at home who need assistance.

CaregiverKIND
Concord, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

KidzKIND
Concord, MA

Welcome to KidzKIND!

KidzKIND is a community of parents and kids who engage in simple, short, hands-on activities that give back to the community and people in need. (Don’t tell your kids but it also builds connection, character, and confidence in your child.)

Are screens a dominant part your kids' daily lives?

Do you ever worry that all of that screen-time might stunt their compassion and ability to have real-world interaction with others?

I do! I am a parent of two children aged 12 and 11. While I love technology, I also know that we need to make thoughtful decisions to spend time with our kids to help them build compassion for real, living and breathing people! Not just the kind that are on TV or on YouTube.

Our first “short and sweet” service project will be at Gaining Ground in Concord, MA. http://gainingground.org

WHAT: Harvesting fruit and vegetables at Gaining Ground, which grows organic produce for hunger relief with help from volunteers of all ages and abilities, who work and learn in their garden. In short, they grow food and give it away to people who need it. For free.

WHEN: Saturday, August 17 9-11 am (I said short and sweet: perhaps a trip for ice cream after??)

WHERE: Gaining Ground is located at the Thoreau Birthplace Farm property at 341 Virginia Rd, Concord, MA 01742.

We hope to see you there!!

Compassionately,
Jill, Adam, Rachel, and Carlos Zimmerman-Diaz

One small step for kids
One giant leap for KidzKIND!

Willard/Railey Family Helping Hands
Concord, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people who would like to offer help and lend a hand to the Willard/Railey family.

Jim & Sue
Danvers, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

#TeamGeekbabe
Everett, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Melideo Family
Georgetown, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Gail's Helping Hands
Georgetown, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Visiting Jan
Georgetown, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. Jan is having a knee replacement and would love your company. This is a way to simplify things so Jan knows people are coming to visit when Joel is at work without her having to worry about her keeping track of everything. So please use this website to sign up verse calling. Please scroll down to the bottom and click on visits so you can find a time to schedule a visit that is convenient for you. Although, the time says 8:30 or 12:00pm those are just approximate times. She would love a morning visitor (sometime between 8:30-12) and an afternoon visitor (sometime between 12-4). Remember if those times don't work for you, she would love you to visit, but we just want to make sure she has visitors when Joel is at work because she is limited on what she can do and is stuck on the second floor.

Groveland Friends of Danielle
Groveland, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Cynthia Clare Riddle
Harvard, MA

My name is Jan Bergstrom and I was a part of the Brugh Joy community back in the day.  Some of you may remember me; as I am a good friend of Cynthia Riddle’s. We met at Actualizations around 1983 and have remained friends since. As you know she was diagnosed with Inclusive Body Myositis about five years ago, and as the years have gone by this disease has become continually more disabling. Currently, there is no real treatment to stop the progression of this disease.

For more information about Inclusive Body Myositis please visit this website. www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/inclusion_body_myositis/inclusion_body_myositis.htm  

I visited Cynthia last fall, to help her with organizing and cleaning her home.  I spent almost two days there, cleaning, doing laundry, throwing things away and compiling bags for donation.   The next day I fixed her closet and took her shopping to get garage shelving for storage. All the while I was sadly shocked to see how truly compromised she has become due to this disease. 

Cynthia, being the fighter she is, never really complains or says much about how hard things are.   Now, not being able to walk up stairs, the challenges facing her are growing.  With her two daughters Emily and Julia, ages 10 and 6 at home and her husband only recently back at work, balancing finances, family time and health is a tall order to fill by herself. She is currently receiving disability help and benefits however, the help was unreliable.    

I reached out to all of you to help donate money for her cause.  We were able to raise enough money to bring in a home helper starting in November of 2012 until this June 2013.  Her name is Kathy Choma and she has been coming 3 days a week for a 1 ½ hours to help Cynthia with household chores.  

I know that times are difficult and if any of you could still donate money, please send to my address below with checks made out to me. 

Another idea that I have come up with to help her is this website site called: www.lotsahelpinghands.com

This website if you decide to join, will have a list and calendar that if you can donate your time to help with the various tasks around the house would be so appreciated.  

Any and all support will be put to excellent use!

Thank you again for your generous support!

Warmest Regards,

Jan Bergstrom

23 Randolph Street

Arlington, MA  02474

781-777-1172

Teresa's Breast Cancer Busters
Harvard, MA

Thank you for visiting our site to support Teresa and her family. We are thankful you have considered assisting The Furmanick Family. Please review the options provided to see if one or more fits your schedule; you may also volunteer a task that is not listed.

Temple Emanu-El of Haverhill
Haverhill, MA

Welcome to Temple Emanu-El, a dynamic Reform congregation with a traditional orientation. Our goals are to foster an intelligent appreciation of the Jewish past, and authentically Jewish way of life in the present, and a deep commitment to the Jewish future. Through our broad range of religious, cultural, educational and social programs that span the generations we seek to promote out Jewish identity and further develop our commitment to Jewish continuity both locally and around the world.

Love to David
Lexington, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

James Warren's Twelve Week Walk to Freedom
Lincoln, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site.

You will need to take a moment to JOIN THE COMMUNITY, and then you will be able to see the calendar and sign up to help James.

While our mutual brother, James, is going through his quest for renewed health, this site is to assist all of us from his and Dorothy's various community circles to mutually come together as a healing and helping force.

There are four ways we all can chip in and this one management tool is designed to helps coordinate all of that: Here are the major categories to look for:

Visitation - Two key factors here are the scheduling (making sure James is available) and balancing (making sure we don't all show up on one day with no one visiting for the rest of the week).

Transportation - from time to time James will need a ride to and from appointments, treatments and meetings. Volunteers with wheels will need to be plentiful as this is sometimes randomly occurring need.

Cooking - What James can eat and what nourishes him is a very specific and yet moving target. Volunteers should work directly with Dorothy and James when providing meals and suppliments.

Finite projects - These are things like cleaning James' Nashua home and other event-specific projects that we will list on the calendar on this site. The more volunteers the merrier!

We will have spokes to each of the sorrounding circles of friends so that all of us rooting for James can keep maximally informed and can rely on each other in providing the best care possible. Thank you all for your love and dedication.

If you need to reach James for a calendar event your signed up for call him at 603-860-5699.

Harvey helpers....
Littleton, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

marianne supino, lynnfield, ma
Lynnfield, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Jessica's Friends
Lynnfield, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Karin and Bill's Helping Hands
Lynnfield, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

christinas helping hands
Malden, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Helping Hands for Annie Huber
Marblehead, MA

Our friend Annie Huber had an accident and is currently back home learning how to navigate around in a wheelchair. I've set up a web site to coordinate meals to allow Annie and her family the time, privacy and support they need during this transition. Annie and Tom are touched by your efforts. Please feel free to pass this link to anyone you believe I might have missed in my outreach efforts.

To sign in and join the Community click on the address below to set up your password.

https://www.lotsahelpinghands.com/c/711746/

If you need any help using the site, you can contact Lori Cressy at 617-922-3354 or email lori@cressyteam.com.

The Segee Family's Helpers
Marblehead, MA

If you can sign up to bring a meal to the Segees, that would be fantastic and very much appreciated! Thank you!

Arbo's Angels
Marblehead, MA

Sinead's little helpers
Melrose, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Camille Stay Strong Fund
Melrose, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

The Stevens Family
Merrimac, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to help the Stevens family who are grieving the sudden loss of their son Ben. We will start off by providing two meals a week.

Team Alexis
Methuen, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Helping Hands for Rebecca
Methuen, MA

Community of friends gathering to help and support Rebecca after the loss of her daughter Natalie Rose

Help Ronnie, by helping his parents out.
Newbury, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Boston Acupuncture Trauma Relief
Newton, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

FUUSN Care Crew
Newton, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for FUUSN Care Crew to offer help and lend a hand. Right now, we're just using the Calendar to post and sign up for Care Crew activities, although there are other features we may use as time goes on.

As always, thank you for being part of the Care Crew. Your care and generosity of spirit is a gift to all of FUUSN.

In love and service,
FUUSN Lay Ministers

Sue Skoler's Get Well Team
Newtonville, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Meals For the Cox Family
North Andover, MA

Thanks for volunteering a meal for the Cox Family!

Sun/Tues/Thurs are dinner meal delivery days. They prefer simple meals that are kid friendly.

Friday is breakfast/snack delivery for the family to have while traveling on the weekend. Ideas could be baked goods, packaged snacks/drinks, coffee, fresh fruit, or other grab and go items.

Melissa's Helping Hands
North Reading, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. I am creating this website as a source of help and support for us while my wife prepares for, undergoes and rehabs from a right below the knee amputation to put an end to a lifetime of excruciating pain from a failing foot and ankle.

Anyone who knows Melissa knows that she has always struggled with her leg. She was originally born with a right clubbed foot and has sufferd numerous injuries and complications over the past 33 years. She has undergone 11 foot and ankle reconstructions, countless procedures, multiple blood clots, excruciating pain, and years in casts/braces and on crutches. She is the most skilled person you will see on crutches. People have to struggle to keep up with her.

Unfortunately, her ankle joint finally failed ths past summer and the pain has been intractable since. They have put her on morphine and on a kneeling scooter for transportation to keep her relatively comfortable until surgery. We have consulted all of the top foot and ankle surgeons and they all agree that there is nothing more they can do to save her leg. A below the knee amputation is her best option for a more mobile and pain-free life. We have thought long and hard about taking this next step and we are now prepared and ready to undergo this next chapter in our lives.

Through all of this, Melissa has fought through it all with an incredible attitude and work ethic, always with a smile and a positive attitude. When others would have given up, she has pushed through and trained even harder to keep the rest of herself strong and sharp. Despite all that has been going on, she has not only maintained but continually succeeds at her full time job managing clinical trials at Joslin Diabetes Center. She plans to work right up until surgery.

Surgery is scheduled for April 4 at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. They will admit her 2 days prior to surgery, April 2, to start a continuous epidural nerve block to help prevent post surgical and phantom limb pain.

From the day Melissa knew she needed surgery, she has worked so hard to set up all the details of surgery and rehab. No detail has been overlooked. She put an incredible medical team together and we are all prepared and ready for this life altering surgery and chance of a pain free and more mobile life.

We are optimistic and hopeful, but danted by the amount of work such an event requires. We normally do not reach out for help, but we cannot go down this road alone. We are going to need a lot of prayers, help and support. Meissa's primary medical team wrote us a "prescription" for this website. We were told that it takes all of a caregiver to care for a loved one and a entire community to care for a caregiver. Please join us one our journey as we get Melissa a new leg. Help comes in many forms, from prayers and well wishes, to running errands, helping with transportation to rehab appts., or dropping off a hot meal. Please join our online community an help me help my beautiful, strong, amazing wife.

Sincerely,
Mike DeChellis

Meals for the Buckley's
Peabody, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

St Agnes His Helping Hands
Reading, MA

Welcome to our St. Agnes His Helping Hands Website powered by Lotsa Helping Hands. This site provides a place for us to list help needed as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.
His Helping Hands is a ministry to assist families of St. Agnes Parish and in the community in their times of need.
The delivery of a meal when a loved one is ill or a new baby arrives is truly faith in action.
Meals, errands, childcare, and other necessities are offered during times that a family is in need of support.
Please join the community by registering as a support giver or let the community know of a family in need of support.
Nancy Meehan
Coordinator
St.Agnes His Helping Hands Ministry

Team O'Leary
Reading, MA

Kathleen has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer and needs some help with meals.

Friends of Darren McCullough
Saugus, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Davis Square Do-gooders
Somerville, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Caitlin's Army
Somerville, MA

We are an army of friends and relations battling Caitlin F.'s cancer, armed with food, dog walking and kindness.

CBB/TBB (old)
Somerville, MA

Hello! If you are looking for our current TBB community, you can find it here: https://my.lotsahelpinghands.com/community/congregation-bnai-brith

Sara Lennox and Larry Miller
Somerville, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

MEALS IN HAMILTON WENHAM
South Hamilton, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Pat's helpers
Sudbury, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Judy's Helping Hands
Sudbury, MA

This site was created to help Judy during her recovery from brain surgery. The surgery, which occurred on August 8th at Mass General, has left her with compromised balance and hearing loss in one ear. Our family would appreciate your support during the next couple of weeks.

Thank you in advance. And, if you have any questions on how to sign-up for a task, or would rather sign-up by phone, call Abbie at 978.460.3324.

Toland Family
Sudbury, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

SMILE Mass
Sudbury, MA

SMILE Mass is non-profit based in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Our mission is to help families living with children or adults with disabilities create happy healthy memories through recreation and vacation experiences.

SMILE Mass has volunteer opportunities that range from a couple of hours on a particular day, to longer term commitments.

We currently have a loaner program, where families requesting beach wheelchairs, joggers, sleds, etc, can request to borrow a piece of equipment from our loaner inventory. We sometimes need help delivering these pieces of equipment to the requesting family. This delivery could be in the local metro-west area, or it could be on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, at a lake or beach in New Hampshire or Maine, etc.

SMILE Mass also has events where we need help on a particular day to help set up, registration at the event, selling raffle tickets, clean up, etc. These commitments can range from a couple of hours to the entire day. Whatever fits into your schedule at a particular time.

For more information, email us at info@smilemass.org.

Thank you!

The Woolfords
Sudbury, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Orchard st
Tewksbury, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Martin Family
Tewksbury, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Dedicated to Donna
Wakefield, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Cole/Austin Family Help
Wakefield, MA

On Tuesday September 2nd a close family friend and my sons best friend's Mother passed away suddenly, it is now him and his step mother trying to get through this hard time and i am hoping this wonderful community can help them out with the basic need of a few meals to ease the stress in this most difficult time for the two of them.

Diane's community
Watertown, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Living Stones
Watertown, MA

Welcome to our Living Stones' Lotsa Helping Hands Community page. This is a Living Stones Community resource that provides a calendar of all upcoming meetings and events as well as the needs of the group. We have created this account so that the Living Stones activities and agenda are open and transparent to the whole community. We seek to share responsibility for our Parish mission amongst all community members. All are invited to join in the work and evolution of Living Stones.

We would love to hear your thoughts! Please contact either Sharon Bogue or Anna Petrie with your ideas, wonderings, question, and concerns.

Teta Rohia
Watertown, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Helping Wayne
Watertown, MA

Hi everyone,

We just wanted to say that we can't tell you all enough how lucky we feel to have such wonderful friends who continually show so much support and love.

We created this page to help Cheryl, Wayne and the rest of the family share their updates. It's also a great place to keep everyone posted about meal schedules because everyone keeps asking what they can cook for dinner and what night. This page will help alleviate any confusion and that way if Cheryl can't respond, you will have the info right at your finger tips.

Please continue to send prayers and positive thoughts.

First Parish Watertown
Watertown, MA

A community wide website for the people of First Parish Watertown to volunteer to help one another.

OR ATID VOLUNTEER
Wayland, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Family Promise - Temple Shir Tikva
Wayland, MA

Welcome to the Family Promise-Temple Shir Tikva Community web site.

Minogue Family Dinners
Wenham, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Hutchinson Meals
Wenham, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

dinners for the Bahrs
Wenham, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Fessy Community Cares about Mr. & Mrs. Naiman
West Newton, MA

The Fessy Community Cares Committee provides thoughtful support to members of the Fessy Community (faculty, staff, students, parents) who are in need of comfort due to illness, disability or loss. We also delight in celebrating the milestones in the community such as birth of a child, marriage, achievements and awards. We work confidentially and behind the scenes to provide a card, gift, meal, transportation, or what is needed. Our committee relies on the parent body as well as the faculty and staff to alert us to a need within the community. Please keep us in mind when you hear of a member of our community that could benefit from our support.

In this case, Mr. Naiman and his family are in need of our support in providing meals to his family during the period of his wife's illness. Please help out by signing up! Meals should serve 2-4 people, no hungry boys in their house! Please bring the meal to Nancy Hokinson's refrigerator in the corner of her office, between 7:30am-3:00pm. Thank you!

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2nd Church - Get Connected
West Newton, MA

Welcome to our 2nd Church - Get Connected website, a place where we can match people's talents and abilities with our church community's needs. Please take a few moments to familiarize yourself with the many opportunities, large and small, to lend a hand and build connections with fellow congregants. There is absolutely no pressure to commit to anything, only opportunities as you are interested and available to help!
On a related note, if you have a particular passion or need you would like to offer up--and don't see it represented here--please contact Dana or Mary Beth. We are wide open to suggestions.

Sarah's Helping Hands
Westford, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Supporting Ann Eno
Westford, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

The Williams Family
Westford, MA

susan feld's friends
Weston, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

For Sher
Weston, MA

Hello friends, thank you, and welcome to our shared community focused on the support and well being of Laura, Ben (and ourselves) as we collectively process the life, love, and loss of Richard.

Please sign up for a date or two where you can share an adventure, a meal, a movie with both, a sleepover for Ben, a drink with Laura, really any way you feel you and your family would like to spend time.

Sending affection and gratitude to all.

We're One Wilmington
Wilmington, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Wilmington Farmers Market Association
Wilmington, MA

Wilmington Farmers Market 2013

Our Mission Statement

• To provide a place where community members can purchase fresh produce directly from local New England Farmers.

• To provide a diverse and interesting selection of locally grown fruits and vegetables, and locally produced goods.

• To educate our community about the importance of sustainable agriculture.

• To partner with local organizations such as the library, area health centers and fitness organizations to promote education about healthy eating.

• To provide a self-sustaining social experience and to foster a sense of community in Wilmington.

Sundays, June 15 - Octbober 12, 2014

10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

At the Swain Green, across from the Town Common

First Congregational Church Winchester
Winchester, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Patrick Gill Helpers
Winchester, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site was set up by neighbors, friends and family to help the Gill family with whatever they need over the difficult weeks and months ahead.

While your time is appreciated, the Gill's family has asked that any and all monetary donations go to The Winchester Sports Foundation: http://winchestersportsfoundation.com/

Thank you for your support.

Jp's helping hands
Woburn, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Ilana's People
Woburn, MA

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Meal contributions for Lisa Carpenter
Kittery, ME

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Kittery Point, ME
Kittery Point, ME

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Bob and Anne Canniff's community
Atkinson, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand. We have set this up to help organize meals for the family and services. Thank you!

Dobmeier Family
Auburn, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

DLandry's Helping Hands
Barrington, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. We set this site up for our dear friend Dina Landry. Dina has been an active community volunteer for over a decade, she has spent countless hours dedicating her personal time to serve our community. Always willing to lend a hand when needed and lead projects and events to raise money for organizations including but not limited to the PTA and the PTC. However, right now she and her family could use a little help from other volunteers in our community.

As you all know, Dina suffered a stroke and is currently in rehab working hard at getting back on her feet. We have no doubt that when she does she will waste no time jumping back into her volunteer activities for our middle schools PTC. We thank you for visiting our site and taking the time to send Dina and her family a message via the well wishes tab above and if you are able, volunteer where needed.

Amy's Helping Hands
Barrington, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Dainiak Family Support.
Bedford, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Help for Michelle VanValkenburg
Bedford, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Amy's Helping Hands
Chester, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Food for Obama and Dem Volunteers
Concord, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Deerfield NH - Robert Family
Deerfield, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Sarah's Helping Hands
Derry, NH

Welcome to Sarah's Helping Hands web site.
Sarah struggles daily with a rare and terrible disease, NMO or Neuromyelitis Optica . This page was created to help the Sarah and the DeLong family with whatever we can do to help. It's also a great way to stay connected to Sarah's progress and what she needs
.

Thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers and any help that you are able to provide.

Zabriskie Family
Derry, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Denise Walderich
Derry, NH

Organize communication and support for Denise

Relief Dinners for the Madden's
Dover, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Jen Molleur's Helping Hands
Dover, NH

Welcome to our Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for us to organize our help for Jen during this time of need. This site makes it possible for us to see what others are doing in order to offer up the most valuable times/meals/help to the family.

Astrid's Helping Hands
Dunbarton, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for volunteers to offer to make a meal for Astrid and her family. We are asking for meals every other day so that they do not become overwhelmed with food. There will be a cooler on the porch for you to leave your meal.

Helping the Slavins
Durham, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Donald Story
Exeter, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Norine's helping hands
Goffstown, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Rick G's Helping Hands
Lee, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Mary Frazzetta
Merrimack, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Steiner/Truesdale Church
Newfields, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Carlene Benelli
Newfields, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

McLane law firm
Portsmouth, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Temple Israel of Portsmouth, NH
Portsmouth, NH

Temple Israel is a warm and dynamic conservative, fully egalitarian Jewish family. Founded over 100 years ago by immigrants to the New Hampshire seacoast, the synagogue is conveniently located in the historic district of Portsmouth.

Team Tricia
Sandown, NH

To create a team to help the Bair's to make life a little easier right now

Jean's Helping Hands
Somersworth, NH

My name is Kay, I'm Jean's daughter. It has been a very long week, beginning Tuesday night when mom was taken to the ER for a broken hip and sacrum. She was released that night, but taken back in the middle of the night Thursday for a blood clot it her lung related to the break. Her recovery is at best 4-6 weeks and she is staying at the hospital for the time being. We deeply appreciate anything you can do to help us, and a huge thank you to everyone who has already gotten in touch with us.

Brandon & Anna Patterson Family Helping Hands Unite
Somersworth, NH

Hi everyone, We are utilizing this site to help Brandon, Anna & their children with meals, during this time of need. We are unsure of exactly how long this will be for but any and all help would be appreciated in more ways than you could imagine.
We've all been there when tragedy has struck, so let's keep up the good work and continue pulling through for this precious family.

TEAM BRISSETTE
Suncook, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Project Laura
Windham, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.

Project Laura
Windham, NH

Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands Community web site. This site provides a place for people in our area to go to request help as well as for volunteers to offer help and lend a hand.