Senior Bags

 

 

Of the over 38,063 individuals the Brazos Valley Food Bank

helped feed in 2007, over 4,680 were seniors.

 

Having spent their lives working hard, these seniors are now retired, on a fixed income and are at risk of spending their last years hungry.

 

 

With a generous grant of $30,000 from the Beaumont Foundation of America, Inc. and $10,000 from the Clifton C. and Henryetta C. Doak Charitable Trust, the Brazos Valley Food Bank is doing all it can to ensure that the most at risk seniors in the Brazos Valley

can eat more than one meal a day.

 

Partnering with the Brazos Valley Community Action Agency’s (BVCAA) Meal on Wheels program,

the Brazos Valley Food Bank helps ensure that  150 Senior Bags are provided to the neediest

Meal on Wheels recipients in Brazos, Burleson, Grimes and Robertson Counties.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These bags, filled with 12 nutritionally balanced easy-to-prepare items, supplement the daily hot meal they receive from Meals on Wheels.  These Senior Bags provide food for the evenings and weekends, when these senior may be going without.

Text Box: Senior Bags Distributed in 2007:                          3,308   Unduplicated Seniors Receiving Senior Bags:  143   Food Distributed:  33,758 lbs   Text Box: What seniors are saying about their Senior Bags:   ·         We like everything that is in the bags ·         The food helps out a lot ·         The food helps us cut down on grocery bills ·         I ate leftovers before I received these bags ·         I had to do without before I received these bags ·         Without the help from the food bank, I had very little to eat  

            

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

 

 

        

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately, for each senior who receives a bag, there are 3 more that could use it.

 

How can you help? 

 

Consider sponsoring a Senior Bag

or

conducting a Senior Bag specific food drive.