CareConnect and Roche Colorado Team Up for Day of Caring

On Friday August 13th CareConnect and 10 employees from Roche
Colorado participated in a Day of Caring service project sponsored by
Foothills United Way.
The volunteers worked for 4 hours in the early morning sun to help brighten up the property of an older
couple who needed volunteer help. The focus of this particular
volunteer project was lawn care and property maintenance. Because the
couple needed to attend to each other's serious health issues, a once
beautiful garden had been sadly neglected.

At 8 AM on Friday morning the volunteers got to work. They painted a wheelchair ramp with
its first coat of non-slip paint, trimmed back ivy and blue spruce
branches that made a walkway inaccessible, removed a broken garden
fountain and pulled the weeds from the curbside boxes.

Still full of energy and motivated to make the most of their volunteer time,
the volunteers undertook a major trimming operation. They cleared a
walkway between the quince bushes and the forsythia to reveal a garden
gate that hadn’t been opened in years.

At the back of the house two large shrubs were transplanted to sunnier spots and a brick
walkway was extended and widened to permit someone using a walker to
access the path. The day was a great success.

One Roche Colorado employee said, “Roche Colorado has participated in this event
for 13 years and it always turns into a great day. The employees all
love it and we look forward to it every year. It feels so great to help
such a deserving and kind couple.”

The homeowners were thrilled with the volunteers and grateful for the help. They'd missed
their gardens and missed being able to get outside and enjoy the
morning sunshine. “Fantastic job, fantastic work. You all had so much
energy and everything was great! Thank you so much, everything looks
terrific. It looks like the old days.” Thank you, they said as the
volunteers headed off to a well earned picnic sponsored by Foothills
United Way.

Many thanks to the Roche employees who participated in the Foothills United Way Day of Caring and to the 1,000
volunteers throughout Boulder County who participated in this powerful
day. To see more photos, please visit: www.facebook.com/CareConnect.