Local groups organize to deliver meals to seniors during the pandemic

The Salvation Army, MST and Meals on Wheels are working together to deliver meals to seniors during the pandemic

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0:00 MST, The Salvation Army and Meals on Wheels are working together to deliver meals to seniors during the pandemic.

0:07 MST’s team of seven volunteers delivered 51 meals this week to homebound seniors in salinas.

0:13 Meals on Wheels says volunteers are still going door to door too.

0:17 The trouble is they can no longer go into people’s homes for that social interaction that so many of those seniors rely on… In some cases as much as the meals themselves.

0:25 We congregate naturally and now the fact that our seniors are even more isolated in the home delivery meal program is is in unfortunate

0:35 To make up for it meals on wheels is calling its clients and reaching out to their family members to make sure seniors are being looked after and have interaction.