Our Meals on Wheels program serves between 80 and 100 homebound people each day, free of charge.
The Soup Kitchen serves approximately 1,000 hot meals a day, at a cost of $0.60 per meal. With more than 300 active volunteers, we are powered by a compassionate community. Our main focus is on food insecurity for our area’s most vulnerable. However, we have evolved to offer a variety of other services. Our babies program provides diapers, formula and other products to new parents struggling to make ends meet. The Soup Kitchen also supplies newly arrived refugees and immigrants with furnishings and friendship to help them culturally acclimate and meet their material needs. In 2015, we learned that Boynton Beach’s homebound population had no access to a “meals on wheels” program. The Soup Kitchen presented a proposal to Impact100 Palm Beach County and, to our delight, secured a grant. Our Meals on Wheels program serves between 80 and 100 homebound people each day, free of charge, who are homebound due to chronic/terminal illness or advanced age. Prepared foods delivered to the front door allow our clients to stay in their home rather than assisted living facilities. Daily contact with our volunteers reduces isolation and loneliness and helps to detect changes in physical/mental status. The program networks with social service agencies to ensure that each client’s well-being is preserved. Like The Soup Kitchen, Impact100 Palm Beach County is very much a grassroots organization. Members understand the cost of starting a program or launching a new phase of an existing one. The amount of funding provided to nonprofits is realistic and allows us to focus on the program rather than diverting attention to finding additional resources.
