Home Delivered Meals
of Saratoga County

 

We need your help now to keep meals coming to homebound seniors!

Being a volunteer for Home Delivered Meals (HDM) for Seniors is a very gratifying experience. You are doing more than delivering a nutritious meal. For many participants, you are their only contact with the outside community. They look forward to seeing you and feel you are a friend. Our home delivered meals program relies on volunteer drivers.

The HDM Program of Saratoga County is in urgent need of volunteers to deliver meals to the elderly, home-bound. This program is designed to help those 60 years of age and older, who are homebound, to remain in their own homes for as long as possible, by providing a hot meal and a daily human contact.

Meals are delivered Monday through Friday to a growing number of the elderly. We must divide our present delivery routes in an effort to comply with the Program guidelines. To accomplish this we must recruit more volunteers.

 

Volunteers give an hour or two of their time and deliver as often as they prefer. Once a week, every other week, once a month or only certain months of the year. We do our best to accommodate individual schedules.

5aratoga County is one of the few Counties in the State that does not have a waiting list for Seniors that are in need of meals. We are able to start meals immediately. The only reason we are able to serve our seniors so well is because of Volunteers.

Over the course of a year
our Volunteers:

  • Delivered over 168,000 meals.
     

  • Served over 850 Frail/Homebound Seniors.
     

  • Saved the program over $100,000 that enabled us to serve all the Seniors in need without a waiting list.
     

  • Checked on the well being
    of all the HDM participants.

The only Requirements in
being a volunteer are:

  • Delivering meals on routes designed to take less than 1 hour (11am - 1pm)
     
  • Drive as often as you like, daily or as little as once per month
     
  • Drive your own vehicle (mileage costs are tax-deductible)
     
  • You will be trained on the route you will be serving
How Do I Volunteer?

Contact the Coordinator for the Home Delivered Meals Program at (518) 884-4100 or write to the address below. This program serves Seniors in Saratoga County through the Office of the Aging.

Office for the Aging
c/o/ HDM Coordinator
152 West High Street
Ballston Spa, NY 12020
(518) 884-4100