Posted by Alex Johnson on September 4, 20084 CommentsPrinter Friendly
How many elderly folk in the U.S. depend on Meals on Wheels each day? If you said somewhere between 1.3 and 1.4 million people you wouldn’t be far off the mark. That’s a lot of people who, without the help of Meals on Wheels, wouldn’t be eating a hot meal tonight.
Even though my family and I eat modestly, it’s hard for me to imagine what it must be like not to have something warm to eat each night. It must be tough, particularly when you’re older.
Unfortunately, things are becoming increasingly challenging for Meals on Wheels. Faced with a sharp upturn in demand for its services, coupled with a shortage in volunteer labor (as a result of record-high gas prices) their task seems almost overwhelming.
The good news is that there are companies out there willing to assist where they can. Aurora Organic Dairy, a leading organic dairy company, recently donated 920lb of high quality beef to the Dumas Meals on Wheels Association. The beef came from their newest organic dairy farm – the Coldwater farm – in Stratford, Texas.
That’s a lot of beef. And it makes me feel happy knowing that there’ll be a lot of good folk in Dumas who’ll be a lot less hungry tonight. Well done Aurora Organic Dairy!
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Its good to see some of the big guys doing something for the little guys.
Meals on Wheels is one of those organizations that don’t really hog the limelight. They are the type of organization that just rolls up their sleeves to getting on with it. Thanks for sharing good news Alex.
Coolo!!!!!!!
Lots of large corporates do more than you realize. Although it’s not fashionable to be large any more (thanks to the green movement and consumer activism taken to illogical extremes) if you think about it for a minute most charities in the U.S., without corporate assistance, would ceas to exist. I think if you were to scratch beneath the surface you’d soon realize that there are a lot of corporates that, not unlike Aurora, don’t get the credit or acknoledgemnt they deserve.