Berkshire County - Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation’s Joseph H. and Carol F. Reich Fund provides grant for Elder Services ’Meals on Wheels Program'
Elder Services of Berkshire County has received a grant in the amount of $6,860 from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation’s Joseph H. and Carol F. Reich Fund, which was created to improve the quality of life for residents of the southern Berkshires.
The funding is in support of Elder Services’ Nutrition/Meals on Wheels program, which provides hot, nutritious meals to over 1,000 Berkshire seniors each weekday. This past year, Elder Services has served over a quarter-million meals - over 200,000 were delivered as Meals on Wheels to frail homebound seniors who might not otherwise have had a hot meal or a friendly visit. The remaining meals were served to seniors attending Elder Services’ 14 group lunch sites, located throughout Berkshire County.
The Nutrition/Meals on Wheels program has been dangerously under-funded for years, even as cost of preparing, serving, and delivering the meals continues to grow. Community organizations such as the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation provide Elder Services with much-needed support to address the program deficit.
This grant from the Joseph H. and Carol F. Reich Fund will help ensure that south county seniors who need home-delivered meals will continue to receive them.
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.
