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Elder Services has received a grant of $3,000 - August 05, 2008
Elder Services of Berkshire County has received a grant of $3,000 from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation’s James and Robert Hardman Fund for North Adams, to help offset a portion of the deficit faced by the agency’s Nutrition/Meals on Wheels program. The grant will benefit seniors in North Adams, Clarksburg and Florida who receive home-delivered meals from Elder Services.
Elder Services’ Nutrition/Meals on Wheels program serves all of Berkshire County. Last year, Elder Services’ kitchen prepared over
a quarter of a million meals, producing more than 1,000 hot, nourishing meals a day each Monday through Friday. Over 200,000 meals
were delivered directly to the homes of frail seniors, and the rest served to seniors attending 14 lunch sites located throughout the county.
Drivers travel more than 226,000 miles each year to bring hot, nutritious, home-delivered meals to frail homebound seniors each weekday.
Federal funding for Elder Services’ Nutrition/Meals on Wheels program has remained basically the same for the past 13 years, while the cost of purchasing and preparing the food, and delivering the meals to the homes of seniors has continued to grow. The program has been dangerously under-funded for years, even as the cost of food and gasoline has skyrocketed. The Meals on Wheels program, which has a very lean
budget, has been hit particularly hard, and needs community support in the form of donations, sponsorships, and grants, to help reduce its
operating deficit.
Elder Services Meals on Wheels program is essential to the agency’s mission to provide Berkshire seniors the opportunity to live with dignity, independence and self-determination, and to achieve the highest possible quality of life. |
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