Senior CommUnity Meals - Filling a Void in Meals and Nutritional Services for Seniors in Rural Colorado
Covering more than 4,600 square miles, Senior CommUnity Meals provides meals at eight congregate sites and to many home-bound, low-income seniors throughout Delta, Montrose and San Miguel counties. Many of the seniors Senior CommUnity Meals feeds are the very farmers who fed us years ago, and the meals they receive is the only food they eat. Were it not for Senior CommUnity Meals, many seniors in this area would go hungry.
In 2010, Senior CommUnity Meals was able to serve more than 2,600 individual seniors, and over 107,000 meals and for 2012, we are anticipating a minimum eight percent growth in meal services need in this area.
We hope to also begin implementation of “The Harvest Plan” – an ambitious plan to develop a sustainable program of feeding seniors by utilizing locally produced fruits and vegetables; implement a commercial canning/freezing operation for the produce that currently goes unused; develop a “frontier meals” program to increase the outreach to extremely remote locations; support local farms; and create rural jobs – all while supporting and improving the nutritional health of our seniors.
If you would like to support our Senior CommUnity Meals program, please donate now.
