SWIRCA & More Receives $30,000 Grant from the Glick FUND

SWIRCA & More’s Nutrition Department recently received a $30,000 grant from the Glick Fund, a fund of the Central Indiana Community Foundation. This money will be used to serve hot, nutritious lunches to senior citizens and people with disabilities at the Carriage House Apartments here in Evansville.

Annually, SWIRCA serves over a quarter of a million meals, 4,875 of which are served through the Carriage House Apartment meal site. The Nutrition Department’s funding was reduced by $175,000 last year and then another $9,000 in 2015. Because of these cuts, meals are only being served four days a week. For many of these people, this is the only meal they have each day. This grant received by the Glick Fund will cover the cost for the close to 5,000 meals over the next year.

SWIRCA & More serves lunches throughout twenty two congregate meal sites and sixteen home delivered meal routes throughout Vanderburgh, Warrick, Posey, Perry, Pike and Gibson counties. Meals are served Monday- Thursday. Home delivered clients receive a frozen meal to be heated up and consumed on Friday. For many of the clients, this is the only meal they have each day. For more information on SWIRCA’s Nutrition Department, visit www.swirca.org/nutrition.

SWIRCA & More is a not for profit organization fulfilling a mission of “Enhancing Opportunities for Independent Living.” SWIRCA & More focuses its efforts on empowering individuals of all ages to remain living safely in their own homes by providing information and supportive services to older adults, persons with disabilities, and their caregivers.