For thousands of homebound seniors in the Los Angeles area unable to cook for themselves, Thanksgiving dinner will be delivered by St. Vincent Meals on Wheels. And for many of those people, this will be the first meal they’ve had in days — or even weeks.
That’s according to St. Vincent Meals on Wheels CEO Veronica Dover, who told MS NOW on Thursday that she’s seen more need from the people her organization serves in recent months than ever before. Dover told MS NOW reporter Jillian Frankel that while she expected demand would be higher on Thanksgiving Day, she wasn’t expecting to see so much “desperation” from Meals on Wheels recipients.
“Some of these folks that are being referred to us haven’t eaten in days, some of them in weeks. And so it’s really sad to see the state of malnourishment that is really coming,” she said. “So they’re very, very desperate when they come to us and we’re doing everything we possibly can to take on as many of these people as, as we possibly can.”…