NUTRITION
Your support of United Way helps these agencies ensure good food and proper nutrition for local children and families.
ACCESS Network, Inc.
American Red Cross Palmetto Chapter
Bluffton Self Help Jasper County
Board of Disabilities & Special Needs
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry
Child Abuse Prevention Association (CAPA)
Collaborative Organization of Services for Youth (COSY)
Jasper County Council on Aging
Deep Well Project
Help Line
HELP Mobile Meals
Meals on Wheels
Penn Center
Success By 6
Second Helpings
Senior Services
The Salvation Army
The St. Helena Project
The Children’s Center
The Sheldon Project
The Volunteer Center & Disaster Services
Wardle Family YMCA
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The 78 agencies to whom Second Helpings delivers food “would have to purchase food from conventional stores and none of them would have the dollars to do this. The dollars Second Helping saves these organizations can then be used in other areas like utility bills, teachers’ salaries, program equipment, etc.” Since it’s beginnings in 1992 Second Helpings has rescued 13,760,768 pounds of surplus food that would have otherwise ended up in the landfills.
• Peggy Warnke, Executive Director, Second Helpings
When Jasper County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs provides to their clients “access to nutritious and healthy food sources as economically as possible, we are impacting their health and safety. They enjoy greater health and longer lives with a better quality of life. They encounter fewer doctor visits and require less medication, thereby saving their own funds, state agency funds and Medicaid costs.” Last year 20 disabled adults lived in a Community Training home, with 24 hour supervision, as independent and productive citizens.
• Deborah Walsh, Director, Jasper County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs
“For seniors, food insecurity and hunger are more difficult than for the general population. Therefore, meals delivered by Senior Services will enable older adults to “age in place” by remaining at home in their communities for as long as possible. Currently, the cost for nursing home care averages around $65,000 annually. Providing meals to 140 homebound seniors saved taxpayers approximately $9,100,000 in 2008.”
• Jannette Williams, Executive Director, Senior Services of Beaufort County
$50 provides 3 weeks of hot delivered meals from Help Mobile Meals to a homebound client
$100 buys 3 months of healthy after school snacks for one child at the Boys and Girls Club
$500 pays for iron fortified formula, baby food, and baby cereal for one month at the Children’s Center
$1,000 purchases 30 days of fuel, insurance, and maintenance for one Second Helpings truck |
