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| Community Servings is
dedicated to providing free home-delivered meals throughout
eastern Massachusetts to people homebound with HIV/AIDS and
other acute life-threatening illnesses, who are unable to shop
or cook for themselves. We provide our clients, their dependent
families, and caregivers appealing, nutritious meals, reaching
out to those in greatest need. Our goals are to help our clients
maintain their health and dignity, provide nutritionally and
culturally appropriate meals, preserve the integrity of their
family, and send the message that someone cares. |
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| Our Clients |
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| Our clients come from very diverse backgrounds
and represent many different ethnicities. 95%, however, are
living in poverty. 58% are men, 42% are women. 71% of our
meals go to people of color, including African-American, Latino,
Haitian, and Cape Verdean clients. Children receive 33% of
our meals, and 80% of their caregivers are single parents.
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| The Need |
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 Community
Servings’ daily meals are critical to the health and
well being of men, women, and children living with an acute
life-threatening illness. We design our meals to meet the
complex dietary requirements of people coping with a devastating
illness who are unable to cook for themselves. Most of our
clients are also struggling economically and can’t afford
to maintain proper and balanced nutrition. Community Servings
offers free, well-planned, nutritionally appropriate meals
delivered directly to their home.
The requests for our meals continue to grow as the number
of people homebound with critical illness increases. We strive
to address the growing demand in the communities we already
serve and the unmet needs in the surrounding cities of Lawrence,
Lowell, and Brockton – where there are no meal delivery
programs for people too ill to shop or cook for themselves.
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| The Community |
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| Through the experience and dedication of our
thirty staff members and the generosity of the over fifty volunteers
that come through our doors everyday, we are able to deliver
a daily meal to the 635 individuals and families that rely on
our services. We are profoundly grateful for the devoted support
the greater Boston community continues to give our organization! |
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