500,000+
handwritten letters to isolated elders
32
campus volunteer chapters
10,000
annual Letter to an Elder Day participants
27
countries we’ve sent letters
“After my grandpa died, I started volunteering in communities to find a special connection like the one we shared, but I was upset by the chronic loneliness I saw. Some residents would tell me they hadn’t heard from family or friends in months. They didn’t even get something as simple as a letter in the mail. So, in 2013, I wrote a letter. Then another. Since then, I’ve been on a mission to fight a growing loneliness epidemic.”
