GREAT FALLS — Meals On Wheels delivers a whole bunch of meals each week to homebound residents of Cascade County, making it attainable for them to stay of their houses. The endeavor is made attainable by volunteers and Meals On Wheels wants new volunteers to assist cowl holidays and sickness.
The aim of this system is to scale back starvation and meals insecurity and promote well being and well-being. Moreover, drivers present a casual “welfare test” day by day, which may convey peace of thoughts to the shopper and their household. This system is meant to supply meals for seniors who who’re simply returning house from a hospital, are now not capable of prepare dinner for themselves, or simply can’t get to a gaggle meal location.
“A few of our our important volunteers are snowbirds, so that they go all the way down to hotter climate, which I perceive throughout this time, so now we have misplaced fairly a number of {couples} that volunteered for us to that form of factor,” defined Teresa Loftus, Cascade County Senior Vitamin Supervisor.
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She added, “After they volunteer, they meet so many new folks that they might by no means get to satisfy. A Meals on Wheels supply individual is perhaps the one individual that these folks see frequently, so to satisfy a necessity like that’s actually, actually fairly treasured.”
People who do volunteer have rapidly discovered this to be true, like Annette Dea-Dart who signed up two years in the past, after experiencing some well being points which gave her a brand new perspective on life.
“Meals on Wheels was one thing that I had at all times thought of doing. I bought concerned with Meals on Wheels, it’s going to be two years in January, and I’ve had the identical route for 2 years, so I’ve gotten to essentially know these folks,” says Dea-Dart. “However undoubtedly for anyone who has been serious about doing this, I’m telling you what, we get extra out of it than they do. It is simply actually gratifying, very fulfilling. I extremely suggest it.”
Kitchen volunteers begin serving at 8:30 a.m. and the shift is 2 hours, throughout which meals is ready and packaged up into coolers. Volunteers want to have the ability to transfer round and keep on their toes for 2 hours.
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Driving volunteers will start at 10-10:30 a.m. and make deliveries alongside preplanned routes. These volunteers will take the coolers to the houses and ship meals to the residents.
If you want to assist, contact Teresa Loftus at tloftus@cascadecountymt.gov, click on right here, or name 406-454-6993
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