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- Email us: mealsonwheelschesapeake@gmail.com
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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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Monday through Friday, we deliver nourishment, connection, & safety checks to homebound neighbors.
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❓ ❓ 5 THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT OUR MEALS ❓❓
Our new monthly menu is here! But there’s more behind each meal than you might think. 💚
1️⃣ Our menu changes with the seasons…
Our four-week menu is updated seasonally and informed by feedback from the people we serve.
2️⃣. Our meals are designed with special dietary needs in mind…
We offer medically tailored meals for diabetic, cardiac, and renal diets, plus a mechanical soft texture option.
3️⃣. We pay attention to what’s not in the meal, too…
Our meals limit sodium and are dietician-approved for diabetic and cardiac diets.
4️⃣ There are options for different diets…
We accommodate no pork/no ham diets and offer Lactaid and almond milk as milk alternatives. 🥛
5️⃣Your health matters and the numbers show it…
💚 97% of our participants report eating healthier since enrolling with Meals on Wheels Chesapeake.
👉 And where are all these meals made? 👈
They’re prepared by ServSafe-certified cooks in a commercial kitchen at Chesapeake Regional Healthcare.
So when you look at this month’s menu, know that every meal is part of a bigger goal: helping our participants have access to nutritious food that meets their needs.
Check out this month’s menu below, it is also pinned to the top of our page where the menu stays all month long!
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"We go into the grocery store, we know how it is." -Nischelle Buffalow
Rising grocery prices aren't just squeezing family budgets they’re leaving many of our local seniors facing empty pantries by the end of the month.
When weather hits or delivery gets interrupted, what happens to an older adult who relies on that support?
That’s where Meals on Wheels Chesapeake and Buffalow Family and Friends Community Days step in. By delivering monthly grocery boxes and stocking homes with 900 emergency shelf-stable meals, this partnership is changing lives:
✨ 94% report improved access to food
✨ 67% worry less about where their next meal comes from
✨ 96% feel safer and better prepared when severe weather strikes
Food security isn't just about a meal—it’s about dignity, safety, and giving our neighbors the ability to stay safely in their homes.
👉 Read the full story on our blog to see how community partnerships are closing the gap (and how you can help):
mealsonwheelschesapeake.com/hunger-action-month-when-funding-falls-short-community-steps-up/
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#HungerActionMonth #ClosingTheGAP #SeniorCare #MealsOnWheels #CommunityStrong #EndSeniorHunger
Hunger Action Month: When Funding Falls Short, Community Steps Up – Meals on Wheels
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