WATERBURY AREA SENIOR CITIZENS ASSN
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Mission Statement
The purpose of the Waterbury Area Senior Citizens Association is to enrich the lives of older persons by providing services and activities that sharpen their minds, improve their physical and emotional health and help keep them active, independent and involved in the life of the community.
About This Cause
The Center offers weekday Meals on Wheels and Congregate meals. Also low impact exercise classes, bingo, Wii games, Mexican train dominoes, cribbage, book discussions, computer classes, and canasta. Monthly foot care clinics, yearly AARP safe driving classes and AARP tax return assistance. In addition to these activities, we have decorated cookies and made chocolates at Christmastime; held both a Christmas and Easter basket raffle, and sold items made from yarn donated by the community. We also hold many different fundraising meals to raise awareness and the support the center; Mother’s Day Brunch, Fall Harvest Dinner and the Holiday Stroll. The Center is currently providing a great service to the current residents from the Towns of Waterbury, Duxbury, Moretown, Middlesex, and Bolton. Our biggest expense of WASCA is providing 80 hot weekday and home delivered meals. Meals on Wheels are delivered by volunteer drivers to our homebound seniors. More than 95 % of our clients are disabled or live in low to moderate income households in the communities we serve. The government reimburses us only $3.50 per meal. Currently, we are on target to serve over 18,500 meals for our fiscal year that ends September 2016, but the need outweighs the funds. We are seeing more of a need, by the year 2030 one in four Vermonters will be over the age of 65. We are prohibited by federal regulations from charging for our meals and only suggest that seniors contribute $4.50 per meal if they can afford it. Currently our average meal contribution is well below this amount at $1.12 per meal, but we will not discourage seniors from enjoying a hot meal even if they cannot pay. Investing in Meals on Wheels keeps community members in their own home and out of nursing homes and hospitals. A one day stay in the hospital in Vermont = $1656; compared to 1 year of meals on wheels delivered = $1,040 for 1 person.