By Julie Piper Finley | Director of Marketing & Communications
Older adults who live in downtown Portland are often food insecure. Many live in residential hotels or studio apartments with limited access to fresh food or cooking facilities. Many are making due on social security or small pensions and are unable to afford fresh and healthy food. The Elm Court Center provides them with a daily hot meal that meets one-third of the RDA for an adult. For many we serve, the who fruit and fresh salads are often the only produce they eat. And for those who are homebound, the friendly visit from the volunteer who brings the meal is often the only person they will see om an average day. Elm Court is striving to reduce food insecurity among downtown Portland elderly.
Between Jan. 1 and Apr. 15, 2019, we served and delivered 25,530 meals to more than 700 older adults for a total cost of $188,666.
We received this note from Mike, who lives in the Midwest, thanking us for the service we provided his mother in Portland: Thank you so much for the years of food-- and importantly, friendship -- your volunteers showed to my mom. Whenever I visited her, she always introduced me to the person delivering her food and they would take a minute to visit. She is now in assisted living, but your meals allowed her to stay in her home much longer than we thought possible.
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