The goal of the Holiday Meals on Wheels is to provide our elderly with the most basic of human needs - one hot meal everyday . Older persons need to eat nutritious meals on holidays and weekends.
Current funding is insufficient to provide a hot meal on weekends, let alone holidays.
The federally funded meals on wheels program, critical to so many elderly, is limited to one meal per day Monday through Friday. Identifying that the weekday meals on wheels needed a supplement, the Northeastern Area Agency on Aging created the Holiday Meals on Wheels Program. Receiving no federal monies, the Holiday Meals on Wheels Program survives on fundraising efforts, private and corporate donations. The importance of volunteering is vital to meal programs. Volunteering for meals on wheels does not just deliver a hot, nutritious meal.