South Louisville Community Ministries Inc

Meals on wheels provides meals and friendly visits to homebound seniors in south louisville with a goal to increase nutritional health and provide personal interaction. This program relies on volunteers who deliver approximately 2290 lunches a month. Throughout the year, slcm volunteers delivered frozen meals to our frail, home bound elderly in the south end of louisville. During the year, 151 seniors were provided a total of 27,485 meals. For two routes, the food and funding is provided by mary and elizabeth hospital/university of louisville health, while for the other eight routes the food is provided by mastersons' catering with coordination and funding provided by the louisville metro senior nutrition program and kipda. Additionally, we deliver specialized boxes of non- perishable usda commodities to approximately 20 seniors each month. This year, we also provided 211 senior commodity boxes to our home-bound seniors in partnership with dare to care and usda. Connected with our choice pantry, we provide delivery service of pantry groceries to our homebound families as well (about 45 each month) alongside these services, we offer telephone check-ins to provide support and connection to these seniors.

Volunteers are vital to the work of south louisville community ministries. They deliver meals-on-wheels and groceries to homebound seniors, provide organization and neighbor support in our pantry, transport donations, assist with reception, help with annual fundraisers, and handle the day to day operations of the rosewater bookstore. During the past fiscal year, volunteers provided over 7,200 hours of their time to ensure our neighbors were fed, and all of our programs ran smoothly.

The rosewater bookstore is a volunteer-powered social enterprise that provides free community space, workforce development opportunities, and emergency assistance to neighbors in crisis.