Volunteers

On a class visit to Lazarus House, seventh graders Gauri Kumar and Joeyanna Hodnett developed a brilliant idea. A way to reuse technology to help the Guests of Lazarus House. Every year, the Pike [...]

Lazarus House Sewing Graduates Pay it Forward Making Masks for the Coronavirus Frontline workers Students who have learned to sew in the Lazarus House training program have joined the effort, led [...]

Ron Schneider finds happiness in a Lazarus House classroom in Lawrence holding a screwdriver and repairing sewing machines. Schneider plays a key role in the commitment by Lazarus House that [...]

The Lazarus House Soup Kitchen in Lawrence bubbled with excitement Sunday as four state winners in the Miss USA pageant came as volunteers serving lunch. The young women – Miss Massachusetts, [...]

On a Saturday night days before Christmas, Lazarus House volunteer Paula McKenna is standing in the kitchen of a North Andover home effortlessly managing a group of animated teens who are [...]

A walk through the heart of the Merrimack College campus in North Andover last week would have quickly dispelled any notion that Gen Z college students are indifferent to the social problems of [...]

Notre Dame Program Funds Summer of Service Abby Kiernan and Kate Thel came to Lazarus House this summer worried about how they would navigate being with people in poverty.  Both were uneasy and [...]

Bonnie Mahan provides living testimony that a volunteer can have immeasurable impact on the lives of the guests that Lazarus House serves. She was volunteering in the Lazarus House Soup Kitchen [...]

Eric Webster says he would not presume to know the life circumstances that bring guests to Lazarus House for help with food, shelter or clothing, but it is certain that very few of our volunteers [...]