Elderly Meath widow says volunteer service a godsend amid Covid-19 crisis
An elderly widow from Wilkinstown in Co, Meath says she would be lost without regular visits and phone calls from a volunteer who has been checking in on her in the midst of this frightening pandemic that is terrifying elderly people in communities across the county.
Brigid Kelly who is in her 70s started to avail of the Meath Befriending Service, a volunteer-led initiative to tackle loneliness and isolation among older people in the community when her beloved husband John to whom she was married to for 35 years passed away in 2017. It has since become a lifeline for the Wilkinstown woman.
