Jumping in to Help with Meals on Wheels Volunteer Opportunities

One day making lunches brought big dividends

A Meals on Wheels volunteer makes a LOT of food!

We had a great experience in January by working for a day as a Meals on Wheels volunteer.  Rebecca, along with Dean Murphy, who is a Texas A&M student intern for The TGB Group, helped the program prepare 1,000+ lunches for homebound seniors in the Conroe, Texas, area.

Rebecca has been active in fundraising for the organization since 2018 and thought getting more active as a Meals on Wheels volunteer would be an awesome experience.  She was right.

Rebecca and Dean did their part by helping set up lunch trays with vegetables, cobbler and pudding and making sure the food-prep areas were properly and safely sanitized.  In itself, pretty uneventful work.

But the payoff was deeply felt.  A lot of elderly community members are unable to leave their homes due to illness, lack of transportation or simply old age.  Add in concerns about contracting COVID, and you’ve got a lot of people who need someone to help them out a little.

About Meals on Wheels Montgomery County

Outfitted with masks and aprons, Dean and Rebecca are ready to rock.

Meals on Wheels was founded in 1973 as The Friendship Center to serve the needs of seniors in the county.  Over the years, the organization has grown to provide around 300,000 meals and 15,000 rides each year to the elderly and disabled in Montgomery County.

For many of the people served, this is possibly the only way they could get a hot meal and necessary transportation to healthcare appointments and other destinations.  Every Meals on Wheels volunteer – and there are hundreds of them – are making a significant difference in people’s lives.

Area businesses also help out, as do thousands of donors who give the money that’s needed to keep the operation running.

One day of volunteer work may not be much out of our schedule, but it sure means a lot to the homebound individuals who get a delicious meal delivered right to their door.

Serving as a Meals on Wheels volunteer was the right thing to do for Rebecca and Dean, and we hope more community-minded folks will give a little of their time now and then for this good cause.

The TGB Team