Opportunity Details... Create the Good: Help Homebound Neighbors with a Blizzard Box

Create the Good: Help Homebound Neighbors with a Blizzard Box
Serve your community, strengthen our nation.

Many seniors rely heavily on daily home-delivered meals for their nutritional needs. A blizzard box provides homebound seniors with an emergency food supply in the event of a snow blizzard, flood, or other disaster.

With the help of community groups, Blizzard Boxes can be distributed through existing meal delivery systems, such as county senior centers, community churches, and local Meals on Wheels programs.

In states where snow can be a problem, it's particularly important to assemble and distribute Blizzard Boxes from mid-September until Thanksgiving to prepare for winter. Your group can help by collecting single-serving, pre-packaged, canned or dried, non-perishable food items and packing them in boxes to create blizzard boxes. Local county aging programs, faith based groups, elementary schools, colleges and universities, civic organizations and businesses can be part of the effort.

You can furnish and deliver Blizzard Boxes to homebound senior citizens, people with disabilities and other needy individuals in your community. The Blizzard Box contains pre-packaged, single serving, shelf-stable meal supplies, is ideal for meal service during severe weather or whenever a meal cannot be provided as planned. The Blizzard Box can help ensure that the recipient is prepared for almost any emergency. Should inclement weather or disaster disrupt normal meal deliveries, the Blizzard Box can be used.

Local county aging programs are natural partners for the distribution and delivery of Blizzard Boxes. Also, because nutrition sites are located in local communities, they make logical collection locations.

To get involved or for more information:
www.aarp.org/wv
wvaarp@aarp.org
1-866-227-7458