Meals on Wheels of the Monterey Peninsula
700 Jewell Ave., Pacific Grove
(831) 375-4454, mowmp.org
They say not to play games with your food, but if delivering meals brings you joy, are you breaking that old rule? Maybe, but for a great cause. Last year, 300-plus volunteer drivers covered more than 199,000 miles bringing food – and something even more valuable, a visit from a caring person – to seniors and people with limited mobility. This nonprofit helps keep homebound clients healthy and fed, and also connected. Volunteers might check in, listen to a story, tell a joke, deliver pet food. Hundreds more volunteers help prepare the food and work in the kitchen and serve meals onsite for seniors able to venture out for a community lunch. In this endeavor, both the volunteers and the clients are winners.
