By Julie Piper Finley | Director of Marketing & Communications
Older adults who live in downtown Portland are often challenged to find a source of affordable, healthy meals. While there are lots of hip and trendy restaurants, most are priced far out of the reach of most older adults. Many are living in residential hotels or SROs with no cooking facilities or limited options. For those on a fixed income, dinng out is just not an option. That's where Meals on Wheels People Elm Court Center comes in. We provide nutritious and healthy meals Monday through Friday wth a choice of entree daily. We also provide soup made from scrach and frequently have multiple choices for salads and desserts. Older adults who could not usually afford to dine out, can have a tasty meal in a restaurant setting. For many we serve, the meal they eat at Elm Court Center is their only food of the day.
Elm Court is unique among the neighborhood centers we support. It has a high percentage of homeless seniors as well as a number who suffer from mental illness. The Elm Court Center serves as their "living room" where they can get a cup of coffee, read the paper, pick up a paperback novel, watch movies and chat with others. There is really nothing else like our center for older adults in the downtown area. We provide not only meals, but a haven from the hustle and bustle of a busy downtown.
Between April 1 and June 30 of this year, we served and delivered 26,000 meals to 759 older adults in downtown Portland for a total cost of $192,140.
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
