Those who are served:

MEALS ON WHEELS is a home-delivered hot meal service for persons who are unable to prepare their own food, primarily the frail elderly who are confined to their homes.

Program clients are isolated due to physical immobility or home location, and they are incapacitated to the extent that food preparation is impossible.  They are referred to MEALS ON WHEELS by doctors, health agencies, and social services agencies.  A staff member screens each referral. 

Meal recipients are provided nutritionally sound and appetizing meals five to seven days per week.  They, in turn, demonstrate the merits of the program through improved health, a happier outlook, and increased self-confidence. 

Those who serve:

Volunteers are the “life-line” of the MEALS ON WHEELS program.  Community volunteers deliver approximately 30,000 meals per month.  Over the past thirty-eight years, MEALS ON WHEELS has served more than 8 million meals to people in need.  More than one million meals have been served in the past 3 years alone.

Volunteers provide the human touch that means so much to the homebound person.  Presently, more than 1,400 active volunteers are needed to meet the demands of delivering an average of 1,500 meals per day.

In 1981, MEALS ON WHEELS began countywide service.  Satellite centers, staffed by local volunteers, are located in Travelers Rest, Mauldin, Simpsonville, Fountain Inn, Piedmont, Cedar Shoals, Ware Place, and Fork Shoals. 

Those who support:

MEALS ON WHEELS has not received federal funds since 1970 except for the a special grant the last two years to fund Project Care, a week-end feeding program for seniors age 62+.  MEALS ON WHEELS is not a United Way funded agency but is supported entirely by gifts from individuals, churches, civic groups, and businesses.

All meals are served free to clients.  More than $1,400,000 in cash and $1,000,000 in non-cash gifts must be raised yearly in order to continue the program at its present level.