Salvation Army Delivers 4,000 Meals for SF Homebound Seniors on Christmas Day

While galore Bay Area residents were inactive sleeping Saturday morning, Salvation Army volunteers were hard astatine enactment delivering 4,000 meals to homebound seniors passim San Francisco connected Christmas.

Workers started mounting up astatine 5:30 a.m. astatine the Salvation Army SOMA Corps Community Center astatine 360 Fourth St., and volunteers arrived astatine 7 a.m. The volunteers cod the prepackaged meals and instrumentality retired crossed the city, delivering the meals by car.

"Today's Christmas repast programme is for individuals who are homebound. Probably astir of them volition not person face-to-face interaction with anyone other today," said Major Darren Norton, speaking by telephone from the assemblage center.

"It's truly a heartwarming accidental for us. We are grateful for the opportunity," Norton said.

The yearly lawsuit has been going connected successful San Francisco for 25 years, Norton said.

About 40-50 volunteers execute tasks astatine the assemblage halfway connected Fourth Street, and determination are 120 transportation routes, typically with 2 radical successful each car, according to Norton.

Alli Chin of South San Francisco has been helping with the repast transportation ever since it started. She and her hubby assistance signifier the volunteers astatine the assemblage center.

"It's been a contented due to the fact that we privation to acceptable the illustration for our children and grandchildren that beingness is not astir conscionable me, it's a community," Chin said.

"We service each different and that's wherefore we support coming backmost truthful they volition person an thought of what it means to beryllium a portion of the community," she added.