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Detroit Area Agency on Aging Holiday Cards Provides Meals for Seniors

For over 30 years, the Detroit Area Agency on Aging (DAAA) has been committed to educating, advocating and promoting healthy aging for senior citizens and adults with disabilities to make choices about home and community-based services and long term care services that will improve their quality of life.  

Our service area includes Detroit, Hamtramck, Harper Woods, Highland Park and the five Grosse Pointes.



DAAA depends on donations from the community to help deliver meals on the
holidays. Your donation will help ensure that seniors throughout
southeast Michigan can enjoy a warm, festive meal and a visit from a friendly volunteer on holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Labor Day and Easter.



Many of these frail,homebound seniors do not have family members to spend the holiday with.For many, the volunteer may be the only person they see that day. 


For these seniors, the Holiday Meals on Wheels programs delivers much more
than just a meal, it delivers the essence of the holiday–a warm smile
and caring touch.

 

We ask that you support Holiday Meals on Wheels Card Campaign and help deliver a holiday meal to homebound seniors in your neighborhood this season.

 

Over 6,000 meals will be needed this holiday season!

The Holiday Meals on Wheels Card campaign

allows people to purchase a greeting card

for $5, the cost of one meal.

 A $25 donation = 5 meals

A $50 donation = 10 meals

A $75 donation = 15 meals

A $100 donation= 20 meals

 

 Holiday Meals on Wheels Card program.

MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO:

Detroit Meals On Wheels,

1333 Brewery Park Blvd., Detroit, MI 48207

or via credit/debit card here

If you have any questions, please contact our Communications Manager, Pam Perry by phone at 313-446-4444 x5307 or via email at perryp@daaa1a.org.








P.S. Volunteers are still needed for Christmas to deliver meals. Contact Anquenetta Jones at (313) 446-4444 Ext. 5605 or email hmow@daaa1a.org 

Thank you!

P.S. Remember, Hunger Takes No Holiday!

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Detroit Area Agency on Aging

Meals on Wheels

Address

1333 Brewery Park Blvd., Suite 200

Detroit, MI 48207

Phone

(313) 446-4444

Website

www.daaa1a.org

Total Employees

121

Year Established

1980

Top Executives

• Paul Bridgewater, President and CEO
• Faiz Esshaki, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
• Letty Azar, Chief Program Officer

Board

• Wayne W. Bradley Sr., Chair
• Nancy Courtney, Assistant Secretary
• Lorenzer Frazier, Treasurer
• Juanita Hernandez, 2nd Vice Chair
• Elaine Williams, 1st Vice Chair
• Mark Wollenweber, Assistant Treasurer
• Louise Guyton
• Reverend Oscar W. King III
• Marilyn French Hubbard, Ph.D.
• Alexander Luvall, Esq.
• Terri Mack-Biggs, M.D.
• Juliette Okotie-Eboh, Ph.D.
• Frances Schonenberg, Secretary
• William Sharp, M.D.
• Hedy Shulgon

What We Do

The Detroit Area Agency on Aging
(DAAA) is a nonprofit organization that provides services and programs
to seniors, adults with disabilities and caregivers living in Detroit,
Hamtramck, Harper Woods, Highland Park and the five Grosse Pointes.
DAAA's primary programs include Long-Term Care Services, Mature Workers
Job Training and Employment, Medicare-Medicaid Assistance Program
(MMAP), Long Term Care Ombudsman, Nutrition Services, Healthy Aging and
resources for families.

DAAA also creates change by conducting
research, developing effective policies, and makes policy
recommendations at the federal, state and local levels that directly
impact the people the organization serves. This research includes the
"Dying Before Their Time" report, which revealed the alarming rate of
premature deaths of Detroit area seniors associated with poor access to
care. In 2011 DAAA developed the Nursing Facility Enhancement Project to
provide up-to-date analysis of long-term health care facilities in
Detroit.

Fundraising Events

The following fundraising events
support DAAA's Meals on Wheels, a nutrition services program that feeds
thousands of seniors on holidays:

Golf Outing:
The annual golf outing is a day-long event that includes meals and
activities. Sponsorship opportunities and a series of golf packages are
available.

Summer Cruise: This annual cruise
along the Detroit River features food, cocktails and entertainment. The
seventh annual event has provided hundreds of meals to seniors every
year.

Meals on Wheels Holiday Gift Cards: The
Holiday Card Sales Campaign is an annual initiative where donors can buy
a greeting card for $5 that will be given to seniors with their Meals
on Wheels.

Volunteering Opportunities

DAAA cannot provide services without
donations and volunteers. The organization continues to seek corporate
partners and individuals who believe in serving metro Detroit's aging
community. Consider supporting DAAA through the organization's various
fundraisers, donations and volunteer opportunities available throughout
the year.

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Detroit Area Agency on Aging Holiday Cards Provide Meals for Seniors

It Takes a Village: On Thanksgiving Day 

volunteers from age 8 to 80 Stand Ready to Help

Hunger takes no holiday, that’s why the Detroit Area Agency on Aging (DAAA) sells cards to deliver a complete freshly-prepared hot nutritious meal to seniors on holidays.

The Holiday Meals on Wheels Card campaign allows people to purchase a greeting card for $5, the cost of one meal. 

Each card will be inserted into a delivered meal with the donator’s signature and message.

With the help of corporate sponsors, the community and DAAA employees – thousands of dollars are raised to purchase the meals for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and Labor Day each year. Donations also come from the Holiday Meals on Wheels Card campaign. 

The federally-funded Meals on Wheels program provides meals to homebound seniors in Detroit, the five Grosse Pointes, Harper Woods, Hamtramck and Highland Park - but meals are not provided on holidays and weekends.

“The Detroit Meals on Wheels is a needed service providing nutritious meals to homebound seniors – especially during the holidays,” said Paul Bridgewater, president/CEO of Detroit Area Agency on Aging.  “But more than the meal, the  program is a connection for a homebound senior to the outside world – demonstrating the true holiday spirit. When the hot meal is delivered on Thanksgiving by the volunteer, that gives our seniors contact with another person on the holiday that really lets them know that someone cares.” 

The holiday meals are prepared by Valley Services, a national food services company, in their USDA-certified kitchen at 1980 Bagley Street at Rosa Parks Boulevard in Detroit. Valley Services has partnered with DAAA for more than a decade.

Hundreds of volunteers will assist in preparing and delivering 5,950 meals this Thanksgiving. From 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., volunteers will package the hot food portion of the meal for distribution to ten community sites where delivery of individual meals start at 8:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning.

For more information on how to purchase the holiday cards, volunteer or just make a donation, call The Detroit Area Agency on Aging at (313) 446-4444 or visit www.daaa1a.org. 

To purchase Holiday cards, you can also visit us at Eastern Market on Saturdays, Shed #3 until Christmas.

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse." - Henry Van Dyke

 

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