CHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS

Chestnut Hill Meals on Wheels is a community-based, non profit organization devoted to meeting the daily nutritional needs of any of our neighbors challenged by illness, disability or age. Respecting our clients' desire to live independently, our dedicated corps of caring volunteers home deliver two fresh meals each day, five days a week. Forced isolation is avoided; interpersonal relations between client and volunteer develop and individual freedom is supported... Since its inception, CHMOW has been a neighbor-helping-neighbor enterprise. In 1974, Barbara Russell, chair of the Chestnut Hill Community Association health committee visited Northwest Meals on Wheels in Germantown to learn how home delivered meals benefitted those who received them. She began a campaign for a Chestnut Hill route for people who wanted to remain in their homes as they got older or recuperated from illness or surgery. She was assisted by Mary Anna Ross, CHCA board member and paid Director of NWMOW... In..

Also known as: Chestnut Hill

Primary location: Flourtown United States