Meals on Wheels of Long Beach (MOW) provides a service of home delivered meals for individuals who are unable to shop and cook for themselves and who live alone. This forty year old community service provides a hot dinner and a sack supper complete with milk and dessert, five days a week, to the ill, disabled and elderly homebound. Nearly 100% of the MOW clients would be eligible for nursing care without the assistance of this much needed program.
Purpose of Program: To enable the chronically ill, elderly and frail, short term and long term clients to remain independent in their own homes for as long as possible.
Referrals are taken from: Doctors, hospital staff, social workers, ministers, clients, family or friends.
Service provided: Monday through Friday except ten holidays per year.
Fee: $6.50 per day for two meals. A hot lunch and a sandwich sack supper.
Both meals are delivered by volunteers between 10:30 am and 12:30 PM.
It is estimated that MOW volunteers in Long Beach contribute 600 hours during a typical week, or more than 31,000 hours in a year. Approximately 300 volunteers are involved in the program on a weekly basis.
Each weekday morning a fleet of 24 cars with MOW signs in their windows can be seen throughout Long Beach and the Signal Hill area. Each vehicle contains two volunteers, a friendly visitor and a driver. The volunteers drive about 93,000 miles per year. They donate their time, automobile and the gas if they can afford it, to ensure that the cost of the meals is affordable to all who need them.
While most of the MOW clients range in age from under sixty years to well into their nineties, the program also serves young adults who are homebound or recuperating from illness.
Meals on Wheels gains its resources from the clients, the private and corporate sector and from grants.
This is not a federally funded program. No government support is received.
Today's Menu
Wed. Feb. 22, 2012
Pineapple Juice
FISH AMANDINE
Parslied Noodles
Cauliflower w/Lemon Pepper
Tossed Salad w/Red
Cabbage Apricots
TURKEY SANDWICH
THREE BEAN SALAD
Quote of the Day
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~Mark Twain
MoW's
Thanksgiving Celebration 2011
Great food, friends and fun were enjoyed by all!
Special thanks go out to United Health Group, Trinity Lutheran Church & CSULB student volunteers
If you missed the event visit us on Facebook and see all the photos
