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In 33 months, The Angel's Depot has provided 16,686 "Senior Food-for-a-Week" Emergency Meal Boxes containing 350,406 senior meals and 367,092 pounds of nonperishable, nutritious food to local seniors living in poverty in San Diego County, CA.
Mission Statement of The Angel's Depot
The Angel's Depot was founded to provide food for the elderly poor living in San Diego County and to help improve the quality of their lives. Further, it is the mission of The Angel's Depot to promote community awareness and support for the impoverished senior's plight and to act as a conduit to other available senior resources.
THE ANGEL'S DEPOT STORY
They fought our wars, paid taxes, built families, businesses, schools and churches. They handed down a legacy of freedom, hope and opportunity to the next generations . . . and yet, over 50,000 of these brave senior citizens live below poverty level in San Diego County. Many suffer from malnutrition and must choose between buying food and medicine each month. They are a proud generation who suffer in silence. We call these deserving senior citizens our "Quiet Heroes."
In an effort to provide humanitarian relief to these impoverished elderly, The Angel's Depot, a San Diego, California, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation, was created to provide "Senior Food-for-a-Week" Emergency Meal Boxes. These nutritious, nonperishable easily prepared foods are FREE to senior citizens living on $950 or less per month. The emergency food boxes are distributed to pre-qualified seniors through easily accessed sites such as senior centers, churches, nonprofits assisting seniors and government agencies who provide senior programs.
Poverty, hunger and malnutrition are a vicious circle, compromising physical and emotional health and wellbeing. Nutrition is the single most significant factor that affects and defines the health of all people, but it especially defines the elderly poor.
Given the resources we have the ability to garner, we believe we have a moral mandate to relieve this suffering. These citizens are living in poverty in the richest country in the world. They have courageously done their part for our great country . . . we cannot let them suffer in their fragile senior years. It is not the American way.
Please . . . consider donating to The Angel's Depot. Please take a moment to stroll through our web site to better understand our seniors living in poverty. Along the way, you will meet the "angels" who are helping us make a wonderful difference in the lives of the elderly poor. May we count you among them?
To learn why The Angel's Depot needs help and how you can be involved,
please click on "Why We Need Your Help."
To review The Angel's Depot's most recent Food Box Distribution Report, please click on it.
To view Channel 10's
coverage of the Grand Opening and award presentation, please click on it.
Requires the QuickTime player.
To view the KOCT TV feature story on The Angel's Depot, please click on it (3rd story down).