Meals On Wheels: Ga. Volunteers Deliver Food As They Fret About Funding

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May 26th, 2017

Betty Richardson puts meals together and makes deliveries for Meals on Wheels in Chickamauga. She has gotten to know what her clients care about. “I don’t do it for the money,” she says. “I love these people.”

Courtesy of Georgia Health News

This is the seventh in a series of articles reported in Northwest Georgia, an area rich in stories about unmet health needs and about people and programs making a difference. Georgia Health News and the health and medical journalism graduate program at UGA Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication collaborated to produce this series, made possible by support from the Healthcare Georgia Foundation and the Institute of International Education.

Last year, Meals on Wheels programs brought nearly 4 million meals to 28,000 seniors living in Georgia. But federal support for this program could shrink under President Donald Trump’s proposed budget.

If the federal portion of funding for the program is cut, the effects will reverberate in tiny towns like Chickamauga, where Betty Richardson delivers lunches every week.

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