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How We Make a Difference
We Deliver Joy
You can hear it in Ada’s voice: Meals on Wheels delivers joy to seniors who were hungry and isolated before joining our community. During this time of rising senior need, donate today to improve quality of life for disabled seniors who cannot leave their homes.
Your support
- provides meals and safety checks, as well as social programming like pet care, birthday gifts, and hospital visits
- increases food-security, nutrition, and social well-being
- lowers isolation, hunger, hospitalization, and the risk of falling
- allows seniors like Ada to age in place affordably, with dignity and independence
HOW WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE
We Deliver More Than Meals
Since 1977, Meals on Wheels of Chesapeake (MOWC) has provided nutritious home-delivered meals, safety checks, social connection, and care coordination for older and disabled homebound residents who live alone, cannot grocery shop or cook healthy meals, and have no assistance with meal prep.
Success Stories
Your being here to support me (I live alone) has greatly enhanced my confidence that I am not alone, and were I to need outside help, MOW staff would be there! Seriously! I do not naturally trust many folks, and I do not ask for anything. That said, you all have supported me during my time down to an extent far greater than what I signed on for…easily as healing and welcome as the food.
The volunteers are great and so cheerful. Having new faces is a blessing and the cards, candy, gifts are really nice. Thank you for working to provide seniors with food because some would go hungry without it!
Meals on Wheels has helped regulate my diet and has helped with medical conditions. I am very thankful for ALL they do! All of the volunteers are always a delight to see and talk to! I am very thankful for all the staff at Meals on Wheels. Thank you so much!
Our Partners
- Chesapeake Regional Healthcare
- Senior Services of Southeastern Virginia
- United Way of South Hampton Roads
- Jewish Family Services
- Buffalow Family & Friends Community Days
- Meals on Wheels America
- Chesapeake Health Department
- Chesapeake Task Force on Aging
- Chesapeake Thrives
- Golden Paws House Calls
- Healthy Chesapeake
- SilverTree Seniors
- Unite Us
- Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University
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Meals On Wheels of Chesapeake Inc.
Monday through Friday, we deliver nourishment, connection, & safety checks to homebound neighbors.
In a world where meanness can sometimes feel louder than kindness, how we choose to show up for one another matters. 💚
For National Civility Month, we're reflecting on something simple but powerful: care is a choice we can make every day.
Our latest blog, A Check to the Meanness: Civility as an Act of Care, explores why civility is about so much more than being polite—and the difference each of us can make.
🔗 Read the full blog: mealsonwheelschesapeake.com/a-check-to-the-meanness-civility-as-an-act-of-care/
What kind of community do you want to help create? 💚
A little behind-the-scenes look at where every meal begins.
Before a meal reaches the doorstep of an older neighbor, our team is hard at work preparing and packaging each one with care.
It's a daily effort made possible by people who believe our neighbors deserve nourishment, connection, and the very best we can give them. 💚
Our neighbors need you. 💚
You can make a difference from wherever you are! Our Amazon Wish List makes it easy to purchase items that help us care for older and disabled neighbors throughout our community.
Every item helps us provide a little more comfort, care, and support to those we serve.
🛒 Shop our Amazon Wish List: www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/3D6DNAAM07XBI
Thank you for helping us deliver so much more than a meal. 💚
Closing the GAP means helping our neighbors make it through the month with enough food on the table. 💚
Through the Closing the GAP: Grocery Assistance Program, Meals on Wheels Chesapeake and Buffalow Family and Friends Community Days are working together to address food insecurity among low-income, socially isolated neighbors without caregiver support.
Each month, the program supports 40 participants with essential groceries—and most report that this support helps lift them out of food insecurity and prevents them from running out of food before the end of the month.
That’s the power of partnership and community in action. 💚
