Non-Profit Organization Citymeals on Wheels Distributes Emergency Food Boxes for Seniors in Extreme Weather Conditions

Oatmeal cookies, wheat cookies, are some of the foods that workers of the non-profit organization, ‘Citymeals on Wheels’, pack as part of their emergency distribution for older adults in preparation for the extreme weather conditions that They happen in the summer.

“So that they have food or that box at home for when they can’t go out, they don’t have money. They use this box and have it there in an emergency”, explained Julio Goris, Logistics Manager, Citymeals on wheels.

According to Goris, City meals on wheels distributes around 80,000 boxes in the five boroughs during the year.

“Every day we receive either calls or ‘letters’, from people who do not have enough funds who do not have that help that perhaps the government does not give them and Citimeals is in that space,” added Goris.

Over the next few weeks, the organization will distribute 45,000 boxes of food to 22,000 seniors directly to their homes or care centers throughout the five boroughs.

This type of help is needed, especially in critical conditions like the ones we are experiencing with low air quality due to smoke from forest fires in Canada.

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“Well, I suffer from asthma and the weather outside is giving me a lot of trouble breathing, ‘so’ it’s good to be in here,” said Doris Lind.

Lind is one of dozens of seniors who made it to a care center with difficulty due to the air conditions.

The Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Conservation, which monitor air quality throughout the state, issued a health advisory regarding air quality in much of the state, advising New Yorkers to wear face masks.

The most vulnerable are children, pregnant women, people with cardiovascular or respiratory problems and adults over 60 years of age. To those who recommend staying in their homes or care centers with good air filtration.

“Yes, they should stay at home. That he has a wheelchair or that he has a walker,” Lind said.