The Angels Depot

Causes: Agricultural Programs, Food, Food Programs, Human Services, Senior Centers, Seniors

Mission: Dedicated to providing nutritious non perishable food boxes free to the elderly living in poverty in san diego county.

Programs: Each month, senior emergency meal boxes are delivered to 24 convenient sites in san diego county for impoverished seniors to access; 1,229 unduplicated seniors were served in 2014. Each senior emergency meal box contains 24 pounds of specially formulated food to make 21 easily prepared meals. This program was established as a food lifeline to help seniors living in poverty to survive between social security checks.

community education - providing information to the community as to the numbers and needs of 50,000 seniors living in poverty in san diego county. Depot provides ongoing volunteer opportunities for a corps multi-generational, multi-ethnic volunteers to engage the community in helping end senior hunger in san diego county; in 2014, volunteers provided 3,065 man hours. The depot provides ongoing donor opportunities to end senior hunger, i. E. , sponsoring emergency meal boxes for seniors.

senior advocacy - director of programs, a master's level social worker, provides a level of case management including welfare calls, on an as-needed basis, and tracks demographics of seniors served to provide info to better serve them. To overcome senior memory challenges, seniors receive a depot wall calendar, marked with monthly dates they pick up their meal boxes. "depot dispatch" senior newsletter, tucked into meal boxes, offers healthy living & safety tips, superfoods, senior resource information, contact info and more.