NeighborWorks Northeastern Pennsylvania (NeighborWorks) will serve 41 older adult homeowners with much needed interior and exterior painting and small repairs throughout the City of Carbondale as part of SafetyWorks Week for Seniors, July 21st – 25th, 2025.
More than 300 volunteers will be coming from all over the northern portion of the United States through a partnership between NeighborWorks and Group Mission Trips, Inc. to make the weeklong event possible. As NeighborWorks has recently kicked off the City of Carbondale's 10-year plan to increase livability in the area, the focus of the volunteer work for the week will be the City of Carbondale.
Throughout the week volunteers will provide exterior painting to whole homes, window frames and porches and steps. Interior painting of kitchens, dining rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms will spruce up older homes adding value and increasing the quality of life for older adults who can no longer tend to their homes safely.
NeighborWorks has hosted Group Mission Trips, Inc. volunteers for eight previous workcamps, mobilizing 2,336 volunteers, equating to approximately 50,000 hours of volunteer labor (worth over $1.6 million) to make needed repairs to over 350 separate properties in Lackawanna County. This year Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield and The AZEK Company, along with Coterra Energy, the City of Carbondale and the Lackawanna County Area Agency on Aging, donated funds to provide the materials for the volunteers to use while serving the older adults in the City of Carbondale.
