Meals on Wheels

This is a great opportunity to help the local community and brighten someone's day. You don't have to be a member of the Air Force Sergeants Association to volunteer.

Please pass this information along to your work centers, organizations, etc.

What is the purpose of Meals on Wheels?
Meals on Wheels, through volunteers and staff, delivers a hot nutritious meal to homebound seniors. As the cost of housing, prescription drugs and overall health care continues to rise faster than incomes, the request for food assistance continues to increase. All of the seniors we serve are homebound due to chronic illness or a health crisis. Many live alone and are dependent on others for help with daily necessities. The fastest growing segment of our population is seniors over the age of 60.

Some people may need a temporary solution while recuperating from an illness. For others, it is the answer to maintaining independence, and continuing to live in their own homes. It is our purpose to provide a well-balanced, hot meal and personal contact to the homebound elderly of Bexar County. During FY 2002, Meals on Wheels proudly provided 469,449 meals. What we do makes a difference.

When is it?
Every Mother's Day and Thanksgiving Day

What do we need?
10 people to help direct traffic. They'll need to show up at 0800, should finish by 1200.
15 people to load food onto trucks and then unload the food from the trucks to the delivery drivers, showtime is the same as above.
Drivers, as many as we can provide. Last year, they asked for 20, and we provided over 30. This year, CSS plans on serving over 2000 meals, and requires 330 drivers to do this. Drivers will need to show up between 8:45 and 10:15, depending upon the information they receive on their designator card (your mailing address is needed). Drivers normally finish between 1300-1400 depending upon how many meals they deliver and how far they have to go.
Driver Typical Workday | On-Site Typical Workday

Location
Senior Christian Services at Loop 410 and Babcock, on the inside of the loop.

Directions (from Randolph AFB) (from Lackland AFB)
Babcock is the second exit after the 410/IH10 interchange if you're coming from the direction of Randolph. Once you get to IH10, you would want to start moving to the right-hand lane. Fredericksburg is the first exit after IH-10, followed by Babcock.

If you're coming from the direction of Lackland, the Babcock exit is immediately after Callaghan. You would want to start moving over to the right-hand lane at the Summit exit.