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Aid for Friends Frail Elderly Outreach Center

Elderly Outreach Center

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About this facility

Mission
Aid For Friends' mission is to serve needy,
isolated shut-ins, primarily the frail elderly,
in the 5 county Greater Philadelphia area, with
free daily home-cooked meals delivered weekly by
empathetic volunteer visitors, and also to provide
shut-ins with free out reach services. The goal
is to help our homebound "client/friends" maintain
their cherished independence by supporting their
determination to remain in their own homes for as
long as possible and to enhance their quality of life.
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(FROM THE WEBSITE)

Who We Are & What We Do:

We are 16,000 volunteers - from all walks of life, from
just about every religious orientation, color, creed and
economic status. We live in every corner of the 5
County Greater Philadelphia area -just like you,

Since our inception in 1974 - we have steadily grown day
by day year by year - one volunteer at a time. We
initially served 11 people - today we serve over 2000,
providing each one with 7 free, home-cooked meals and
an hour of friendly visiting each week (over 13
million free meals, and thousands and thousand of
compassionate, friendly visits in the past 33 years)

We would love to have you join us as a:

1. Cook - cook an extra portion of your meal and freeze it
immediately - we supply the trays, menu sheets, and plastic
bags

2. Visitor - you choose the person you would like to visit
and bring seven home-cooked meals (prepared by the cooks)
to the same client/friend, each and every week.

3. Driver -- we desperately need drivers to bring supplies
to our 300 sites and to sometimes move meals from our
office - warehouse site to another site that has run short
of meals.

4. Contributors - we need individual contributors, organizations,
businesses, and charitable foundations - to help us meet the
financial obligations necessary to run Aid For Friends. Please
be aware that because of our wonderful volunteer network of cooks
who use their own food, visitors and drivers who use their own
cars and gas, and countless other volunteers who work in the
office, warehouse, maintain the building and the grounds and
perform a myriad of other tasks, every $1.00 contributed
translated into $6.22 of direct services to our wonderful
client/friends.

We must raise out entire budget of $1,098,000(one million
ninety-eight thousand dollars) every year because all that
we do for our disabled frail elderly homebound is free.-
Free daily meals, supplemental food, all 16 ancillary projects
to support our shut ins and enhance their quality of their lives.

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This is a Philabundance Food Bank member agency. See record:

https://ccc.haghy.com/shelters/2777