Camden Meals on Wheels team wins innovation award for their work during pandemic | Campbelltown-Macarthur Advertiser | Campbelltown, NSW

datePublished” material =” 2020-10-26T07:30:00 +11:00″ datetime =” 2020-10-26T07:30:00 +11:00″ > October 26 2020- 7:30 AM Camden Meals on Wheels team wins development award for their work

throughout pandemic Camden Meals on Wheels has actually been recognised by Meals on Wheels NSW for its Book Bus program.The group at Camden

Meals on Wheels was awarded the Innovation Award for 2020- this is the 3rd time the group has been selected as the recipient of the award because 2013. The development award

acknowledged the work the regional organisation has done to ensure social connections were kept during the time of COVID.Camden Meals on Wheels neighborhood program coordinator Robyn Hartley said the Book Bus enabled the team to continue to look at the health and welfare of their clients, who would generally have had the ability to take part in a variety of gatherings and activities with Meals on Wheels.

” We knew throughout lockdown that facilities such as libraries, bookstores and used shops were all closed down – all at a time when people, especially our elderly clients were investing more time in their homes than ever in the past,” she said.Camden Meals

on Wheels manager Gary de Jong stated while their focus was assisting the senior neighborhood of Camden, their impact went much further.

” We also help families, offering them a complacency and convenience that their enjoyed ones are being taken care of,” he said.

“We supply a meal and so much more, and the Book Bus has actually been a terrific effort to that has actually allowed Camden Meals on Wheels to continue to adapt services to meet neighborhood needs.”

Camden Meals on Wheels is a neighborhood based not for revenue organisation that has been offering the neighborhood of Camden with ‘more than simply a meal’ for more than 50 years.

Camden Meals on Wheels is situated in Little Street, Camden.For more details

, call: 4655 6822.