Partners Working Together During A Time of Crisis
During a time when a virus may be keeping everyone physically apart, we’ve seen many examples of communities pulling together to help each other out. We’ve seen it here at Meals on Wheels/La Popote roulante too. At the onset of the pandemic, our Volunteer Department saw a dramatic decrease of 80% of the number of active volunteers. It made it challenging to fill the multiple delivery routes that go out every day. […]
Serving up ‘More than Just a Meal’ in both official languages!
The former city of Vanier, now an Ottawa neighbourhood east of the Rideau River, is where the majority of our francophone clients call home. Meals on wheels has been a designated bilingual organization since 1999 and is made up of approximately 19% of clients who identify as francophone or bilingual. In our most recent Annual […]
Olde Forge Community Resource Centre
A new collaboration for Meals on Wheels and the Olde Forge Community Resource Centre! At the end of July we said goodbye to Algonquin College who are no longer able to provide meals for the Meals on Wheels program. We thank them for being a meal provider over this last year and half. In searching for […]