PHILIPSTOWN – The Regional Food Bank, Wednesday, provided 100 nutritious meals to residents of Brookside Senior Park, a resident-owned 55-plus mobile home community in Philipstown.
The expansion of the non-for-profit’s program resulted from a grant from Field Hall Foundation allowing the food bank to provide monthly shelf-stable groceries and fresh produce to low-income seniors, many who are forced to make impossible choices between buying necessary medications, paying utilities or purchasing healthy food.
Susan Lintner, Food Bank Chief Advocacy and Engagement Officer, said in Putnam County “there are 3,000 seniors who lack access to nutritious food. The Food Bank is looking at making sure that we get the right food to the right people in the right place at the right time. And that’s what the Senior Food Delivery Program is. We are so grateful that Field Hall Foundation acknowledged this program along with us and realized that this solution of getting food to seniors where they live is a great way of ensuring that they stay healthy and are able to thrive.”
Cindy Requa, a resident of Brookside Park, helped to organize the program.
Requa said she and her neighbors can “now make reasonable choices about what medications we take and how often we get to take them. This food can save lives.”
Through donations from the USDA and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, residents received beef, chicken, eggs, cheese, milk, apples, tomatoes, blackberries, cabbage, onions, rice, black beans, pasta, tomato sauce, pancake mix, canned corn, canned pears, peanut butter, cereal, and bread.
In addition to Brookside Park, the Regional Food Bank is delivering meals monthly to Putnam County senior sites in Carmel, Brewster and Mahopac.
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