The Trump administration’s effort to cut federal spending has raised alarms at Meals on Wheels America, which says that funding through the Older Americans Act (OAA) was already not keeping pace with the rapid growth in the senior population — and with costs that rose dramatically in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meals on Wheels America today supports more than 5,000 community-based programs that prepare and deliver over a million meals annually to senior and disabled Americans. Its network serves virtually every community in America, thanks to the more than 2 million staff and volunteers, who also make friendly visits and safety checks that brighten the days of our most isolated citizens.
The original Meals on Wheels, in fact, began in England during World War II, after Women’s Voluntary Service organizer Lady Anguin, whose letter to the Welwyn Times urged the creation of some sort of “meals on wheels” service for the aged and infirm whose able-bodied family members and neighbors were fighting the Germans. By 1962, the British program was serving 4 million meals in 790 areas.
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