Name: Dora Bremond

Social Justice Group: The Rights of the Elderly

Date of Fieldwork: November 8, 2017

Name of Organization: Meals on Wheels

Person (people) with whom I met and their job titles: Anne Kelemen

Type of Fieldwork: Direct Action

What I did:

We went to an organization that delivers free meals to elders who are not able to leave their home and have trouble getting around themselves. We went around the neighborhood and we delivered fall emergency packages which included packaged and canned foods. We went to peoples homes and delivered their meals. Some of the elders talked to us for a long time, or we just handed them the meal. When we went to Anne Kelemen’s home we stayed there for a full hour discussing our lives.

What I learned:

I learned that this issue is much more important than most people expect it to be. There are many people that cannot care for themselves and cannot even leave their homes. The elders are fairly talented and they have a different perspective on things! People don’t pay enough attention to them.

What I learned about Social Justice “work” and/or Civil and Human rights “work” from this fieldwork:

Throughout the fieldwork I learned that there are so many ways to participate or take action and there are not enough people volunteering. The people who worked there have spent years there trying to make this organization turn into a big thing and they have spent so much time trying to help them out. There are people all over the world trying to fight for civil rights. And its all very complicated, its a whole thing, not just a couple people who “feel like helping out” people who are willing to spend their lives with them.