MANNA’s 21st Year of Improving Health and Delivering Nourishment
Mission: Especially for people at acute nutritional risk due to life-threatening illness, MANNA prepares and delivers delicious nourishing meals and counsel, empowering individuals to battle illness and improve their quality of life.
- 800,000+ nutritious, delicious, home delivered meals produced each year
- Medically appropriate (11 diet modifications) for each client
- 3 meals, 7 days a week
- Free of charge
- Nutritional counseling and education
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Nutrition: A solid nutritional base allows people living with a life-threatening illness like cancer or HIV/AIDS to maintain weight, better tolerate and absorb medications, and build a healthier, more independent lifestyle.
Service: Now in its twenty-first year of service, MANNA offers home-delivered, medically appropriate meals to help boost the body's ability to fight serious illnesses, provides education and counseling to help clients make intelligent nutrition choices, and offers compassionate human contact that link consumers in need with caring community volunteers from all walks of life. Together, these free services help people with a life-threatening illness maintain their independence and live longer, healthier lives.
Clients: MANNA serves 9 counties in PA and NJ by providing 21 meals a week to each client, helping nearly 2,000 people a year with HIV/AIDS, cancer, chronic kidney disease and other illnesses.
How we do it: MANNA’s small professional staff and 1,500 dedicated volunteers are able to provide more than 800,000 free, nutritional meals a year. Donors, foundations and corporations help to fund the production of meals.