Meals on Wheels San Antonio providing seniors with AC units, fans to keep cool as temps rise
Comfy Casa program provides minor home repairs and various home appliances
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Meals on Wheels San Antonio providing seniors with AC units, fans to keep cool amid rising temps
SAN ANTONIO – Meals on Wheels San Antonio has been working to ensure local seniors are safe and cool during these dangerously hot days.
A program called Comfy Casas is providing home repairs and home appliances to low-income seniors and disabled adults.
“We’re working directly with the seniors to help them out and figure out, ‘OK, is it an essential central situation or can we get you a window unit?’” said Ariana Barbour, communications and marketing director of Meals on Wheels San Antonio.
Meals on Wheels San Antonio to break ground on $18.9 million campus this Wednesday
New distribution center will double number of people served in our area
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Meals on Wheels San Antonio to break ground on $18.9 million campus this Wednesday
SAN ANTONIO – During the COVID-19 pandemic, Meals on Wheels San Antonio, a nonprofit organization that helps to provide meal deliveries to local seniors, has seen an increase in the need for its services. On Wednesday, it is set to break ground on a new facility that has been years in the making to serve those who are most vulnerable in our community.
A $1 million gift from Board of Tulane member Lisa Jackson, Apple Inc.’s vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives, and her husband, Kenneth, will double participation in the Newcomb-Tulane College Summer Experience (NTCSE). The program helps newly admitted students from underserved backgrounds get a head start on succeeding at Tulane before fall orientation.
Jackson credits a similar program at Tulane with sparking her passion for engineering as a teenager. A top student at St. Mary’s Dominican High School in New Orleans, she attended summer STEM classes at Tulane on a scholarship from the National Consortium for Minorities in Engineering.
Here’s some ways to help San Antonio and Texas winter storm victims
Winter storm left millions across state without food, water, electricity
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Millions of people have been forced to survive without power and water for long periods of time.
And while temperatures are expected to finally get above freezing on Friday, there will be lasting effects from this winter storm.
There are several agencies that are offering assistance to victims. Here’s some ways you can help if you are in a position to do so.
American Red Cross Serving Central and South Texas
American Red Cross volunteers have been working several shifts across the state to support operations at warming centers, including the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio.