Senior Bags

Having spent their lives working hard, these seniors are now retired, on a fixed income and are at risk of spending their last years hungry. The Brazos Valley Food Bank is doing all it can to ensure that the most at risk seniors in the Brazos Valley can eat more than one meal a day. Partnering with the Brazos Valley Community Action Agency's Meals on Wheels program, the Brazos Valley Food Bank helps ensure that 300 Senior Bags are provided to the neediest Meal on Wheels recipients in Brazos, Burleson, Grimes and Robertson counties.

These bags, filled with nutritionally balanced easy-to-prepare items, supplement the daily hot meal they receive from Meals on Wheels. These Senior Bags provide food for the evenings and weekends, when these seniors may be going without.

Senior Bags distributed in 2008: 7,300
Unduplicated seniors receiving Senior Bags: 275
Food distributed: 72,950 lbs.

Unfortunately, for each senior who receives a bag, there are many more that could use it. How can you help? Consider sponsoring a Senior Bag or conducting a Senior Bag specific food drive.