Our meal recipients don’t have the option of walking to a food pantry or soup kitchen when their cupboards are bare – they are simply too frail to wait in line or carry bags home. For the homebound, food insecurity is especially perilous. We know that 14% of Citymeals recipients get by on just the one meal a day that we deliver.
Citymeals' Mobile Food Pantry began a decade ago to provide supplementary food for those most at risk for malnourishment. Each month we deliver hearty staples – like stews, soups, brown rice, whole-grain breakfast cereal and canned fruit and vegetables – to recipients across the city.
Last year, we delivered almost 45,000 Mobile Food Pantry packages to supplement our regular deliveries.
We have strengthened this vital program by forging relationships with food pantries and volunteer groups working in the South Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn. Community-based partnerships are enabling us to deliver more food to our most vulnerable neighbors and accelerate local action to fight hunger.
For 71-year-old Caroline, the holiday season holds some of her happiest memories. Now she lives alone and relies on Citymeals for nourishing meals and warm companionship. Read more
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100% of your donation will be used for the preparation and delivery of meals, thanks to our partnership with the New York City Department for the Aging, along with gifts from our board of directors and others designated for administrative expenses.
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