“I LOVE TAKING MEALS TO MY CLIENTS!”

  Cathy has been a volunteer driver with Meals on Wheels for over four years. A friend was a volunteer and asked her to join on a route one day. She enjoyed it and decided to sign up herself. She says, “I love taking meals to clients!” She finds that she has a connection with [...]

By |2023-04-27T21:09:26+00:00April 19th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on “I LOVE TAKING MEALS TO MY CLIENTS!”

More than a Meal for Raquel

Born in Louisiana in 1950, Raquel* is a vibrant woman with a big heart. A passionate quilter full of stories, she moved to New Mexico to be close to her daughter after her husband of 40 years passed away. In the nine years since, she has lived alone and had several surgeries where recovery has [...]

By |2023-02-16T20:56:33+00:00February 16th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on More than a Meal for Raquel

Looking Back on 50 Years of Service

In 2022, you helped us celebrate our 50th anniversary. Fifty amazing years delivering food and friendship in New Mexico. Thank you for generously donating or volunteering to connect with our hungry, isolated neighbors. It is because of compassionate people like you that Meals on Wheels of Albuquerque can reflect on 4.5 million meals delivered. Thank [...]

By |2023-02-16T20:49:39+00:00February 16th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Looking Back on 50 Years of Service

Meet Nutan

She’s Volunteered for 29 Years – and Now Her Sons Do, too! Nutan Patel has given 29 of her 61 years of life in volunteer service to Meals on Wheels of Albuquerque. That is multiple lifetimes of client impact – and also an impact on her own family! Ms. Patel connected herself and her two [...]

By |2022-07-26T20:30:35+00:00July 18th, 2022|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Meet Nutan

Meet Vivian

Vivian admits she was reluctant to try Meals on Wheels “because I never realized how good it was, and how organized.” Now, the 77-year-old is more than happy with the service that you help make sure she receives. “It’s very good! The meals are healthy. And I’m very careful what I eat.” Before getting Meals [...]

By |2022-07-26T20:25:45+00:00July 18th, 2022|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Meet Vivian

A Best Friendship Built Over the Phone

By Penny Wolf, Volunteer How do you measure the quality of a friendship? Is it by the number of years you’ve known one another, the memories you share from long ago? Is it from the times you’ve held each other crying, or bent over laughing so hard you thought your belly would burst? Is it [...]

By |2021-08-26T21:12:21+00:00August 26th, 2021|Uncategorized|Comments Off on A Best Friendship Built Over the Phone

The news of your support goes far and wide

Your support funded healthy, home delivered meals to the most vulnerable members in our community. This story is just a few of the many, many lives you touched this year. We thank you for your support as we work toward an even more fruitful and less chaotic year in 2021 and hope you will be [...]

By |2021-02-19T21:07:56+00:00March 15th, 2021|Uncategorized|Comments Off on The news of your support goes far and wide

Ducky is eating better thanks to your help

As we welcome a new year, whatever challenges we face from the ongoing pandemic, we will continue to accomplish our mission to nourish bodies and spirits with balanced meals and friendship together. Ducky* has lived in Rio Rancho for 31 years. He hasn’t been very active since his health deteriorated and he had to be [...]

By |2021-02-19T20:59:29+00:00March 8th, 2021|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Ducky is eating better thanks to your help

You help make eating healthy “easy”

We made it! We couldn’t have weathered the storm of 2020 without you. Through one of the most arduous years since our founding in 1972, your support kept our doors open and delivered 435% more meals to neighbors in need. Major surgery took a toll on Bill*. He’d moved to Albuquerque from Tucson 10 years [...]

By |2021-02-19T20:43:00+00:00March 1st, 2021|Uncategorized|Comments Off on You help make eating healthy “easy”
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