While some people, unsure of what to do, might draw away from someone who is grieving, Alejandro Zima feels compelled to come close.
Zima, of Oak Hill, in Pawtucket, began volunteering with Hope Hospice & Palliative Care Rhode Island, the nation’s second oldest hospice organization, in 2015. After establishing a “Mindfulness for Grief Support” group as a volunteer, he decided to make his mission his profession and accepted a full-time position as a grief counselor for the organization last October.