Oklahoma City Community Foundation awards $4,600 to five parishes

This winter, the Oklahoma City Community Foundation is helping provide warm meals to homebound elderly citizens by awarding $51,600 in grants to 40 area churches and organizations that prepare and deliver mobile meals through Meals on Wheels Oklahoma City. 

Through the mobile meals programs in Oklahoma City, Norman and Edmond, home-delivered meals are available to all seniors age 60 and older who are unable to leave their homes without assistance or prepare meals due to health limitations regardless of income.

In 2020, Meals on Wheels Oklahoma City volunteers provided nutritious meals, wellness checks and meaningful contact for nearly 1,400 homebound senior citizens living in central Oklahoma who are unable to prepare their own meals.

Grants were awarded to the following Catholic churches that provide home-delivered meals in central Oklahoma:

 Epiphany of the Lord Catholic Church;
 Saint Eugene Catholic Church;
 Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church;
 Saint James the Greater Catholic Church;
 Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church.

Photo: Meals on Wheels of Oklahoma City volunteers prepared more than 16,000 meals for homebound senior citizens this month. Photo provided.