Wilbarger County United Fund

Meals on Wheels

Meals on Wheels Mission Statement:  Our Mission is to enable low-income, elderly, disabled citizens to remain in their homes and to be self-sufficient and independent of continuous care by providing home based care.  We accomplish this goal by having dozens of dedicated volunteers deliver meals to our homebound citizens.  Not only is a nutritious meal delivered but a daily contact is made by our volunteers to check on our citizens who may be in need of assistance.  Numerous times our volunteers while on their delivery routes have helped our citizens who were in need of medical attention.

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Program Objectives:

1). Delivery daily hot nutritious meals which contribute to the consistency of our citizen's health.

2). Enable our low-income, elderly and/or disabled citizens to remain in their homes and independent of continuous care facilities by delivering a hot meal to their home.

3). Maintain a daily personal social contact with the citizens we serve which helps to reduce the isolation and loneliness of our citizens as well as provide a daily check on their physical well being.

Meals on Wheels provides one hot meal each day (Monday through Friday) to approximately 106 of our community's low income, elderly, disabled citizens.  We served 26,563 meals during 2005 expect to serve more than 28,000 during 2007.  Approximately 86% of our program is funded by the Texas Department of Human Services with the remaining 14% to be funded by the community through United Fund donations.

 
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Information on this page was provided to the Wilbarger County United Fund
by Meals on Wheels of Vernon.