WEME Home Delivered Meals

WEME Home Delivered Meals provides home-delivered meals to low-income, frail elderly living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Since 1973, the staff and volunteers of WEME have served as a lifeline to our vulnerable neighbors. Beginning in 1987, through Meals On Wheels, more than 500 meals have been delivered six days a week, Sunday through Friday with an additional meal delivery on Friday for Saturday for those most in need. WEME staffs its own kitchen, rather than using an outside vendor.  This means that our clients receive freshly prepared meals that take client preferences into consideration.

In 2009, the Meals On Wheels program was restructured and WEME joined a partnership, led by Encore Community Services, and continues to serve the area from West 59th to 100th Streets between Riverside and Central Park West.

The goal of WEME is to help people to remain in their homes for as long as possible as they age into their 70s, 80s and 90s.  The program reaches out to people who have few family and social supports.  Often it is the only source of good nutrition and the delivery person is one of the few visitors clients receive from week to week to reduce their isolation.

Contact
Karlene Clarke, kclarke@goddard.org