Every day, 81-year-old Lillian receives a nutritional meal from Citymeals on Wheels, delivered to her apartment on the Upper East Side, where she's lived for more than 50 years.
Since its founding back in 1981, Citymeals has delivered 72 million nutritious meals to homebound older New Yorkers with the help of thousands of volunteers.
For the most vulnerable New Yorkers, hunger remains an urgent crisis.
Citymeals is delivering 2.5 million meals this year. Citymeals relies on the goodness of everyday New Yorkers. They need people to volunteer, to help prep and deliver meals, but also donate. Every $10 delivers a meal.
"We wanna make sure that New Yorker's know 100% of what they're giving will go right to our programs to make sure older New York's are getting fed, that there's a knock on their door, letting them know that we care about them," said Beth Shapiro, CEO of Citymeals on Wheels.