ABOUT:
Project Angel Food cooks and delivers over 600,000 nutritious meals each year, free of charge, to the homes of men, women, and children affected by life-threatening illnesses. Our medically tailored meals and nutritional counseling services help chronically and terminally ill people throughout Los Angeles County who are too sick to shop or cook for themselves. Created in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, we expanded our mission in 2004 to help our neighbors who are struggling with the multiple challenges of hunger, isolation and their critical illness. Every week, we deliver to 12,000 meals to 1,400 people in need from Metro, South and East LA, to Pomona, La Mirada and Long Beach, and to the remote town of Antelope Valley. Since 1989, we have served over 12 million meals to more than 20,000 people.
MISSION:
Project Angel Food prepares and delivers healthy meals to feed people impacted by serious illness, bringing comfort and hope every day.
CORONAVIRUS:
For Our Clients:
- We are making sure they have seven days’ worth of extra meals; because many have compromised immune systems, it is essential that they have nutritious meals every day.
- We are now preparing and delivering the extra meals and securing shelf-stable foods (oatmeal, granola, canned tuna fish, etc) in the event that an emergency keeps us from delivering meals to some clients.
- We also are distributing educational materials in English and Spanish to all of our 1,600 clients; giving them tips on how to stay safe and healthy during this outbreak.
For Our Volunteers:
- We will continue to enforce our very strict health code standards which include wearing gloves and hairnets in the kitchen and washing hands for 20 seconds or more.
- We have installed hand sanitizers at several key locations in our Vine Street building.
- Our cleaning crew is increasing the frequency of daily disinfecting of doorknobs, countertops, faucet handles, phones, and all common-use areas.
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