Delmarva Community Services launches the Lemonade Project

CAMBRIDGE, Md. – Delmarva Community Services is helping seniors and kids sweeten up quarantine with the Lemonade Project. The organization tells 47ABC the project is bringing letters written by kids to seniors with their meal deliveries.

In addition to the letters, kids are also sending along artwork. Lemonade Project leaders tell us they wanted to give seniors and kids a way to connect with each other and take their minds off of these difficult times. Delmarva Community Services says the kids and seniors need that chance now more than ever.

“We understand a lot of this dynamic when we deliver meals. Seniors are so glad to see us, they want to know, they want to talk, and then once it seemed like children were going to be isolated too, it was a real natural thing to see that this was going to work,” said senior program manager Mary Handley. Handley also says that when quarantine is over, she plans on throwing a party where the kids and seniors can meet for the first time.

If you’d like to get involved in the Lemonade Project, you can email Mary Handley or call Delmarva Community Services at (410) 221-1900.