Meals on Wheels of West LA

Grading:

Ease of Sign Up: 5/5

Physicality: 1/5

Fun Factor: 3/5

Info:

Address: 900 Hilgard Ave. LA 90024

Phone: (310) 208-3439

Hours: Monday - Friday Starting at 10:30AM

Time Spent:

10:30AM - 12:30PM

Cut the Crap:

Meals on Wheels of West L.A. operates just off the UCLA campus, out of the University Religious Council Building on Hilgard. M.O.W. provides hot and cold meals to people who are for the most part home bound and have a hard time getting food for themselves. M.O.W. provides over 80 people a day with a lunch and dinner. Clients usually get meals 5 days a week.

Personal Experience:

Justin and I had a pretty good experience at Meals on Wheels of West LA. The sign up process was very easy. All we had to do was show up. There was no paperwork to fill out. Within 10 minutes we were filled in on all their procedures and on how to go about doing our route. There are about 8 different routes, everyone is assigned one. First we went to the UCLA hospital loading dock and picked up two containers. One with the hot meal and one with the cold meal. Then we drove from residence to residence to drop off the meals. We were given a booklet for our route with all the stops and directions of how to get to each place. It was idiot proof. You don't necessarily have to be very good with directions. We had a really good time, but I think the more you go the more rewarding it would be. A lot of the elderly people we brought meals to were a little timid and didn't really want to talk. I am sure that the more you go, and the more familiar you are to the client, the more likely it would be to strike up a good conversation. One of the women who was really friendly was a 93 year old former Minsky's dancer from New York. She told us she had plenty of stories to tell us, I pictured amazing stories about her hanging out with the rat pack, and good old Blue Eyes smashing a bottle of Jack against someone's head, I couldn't wait. We told her we had plenty of time. She told us she would have told us stories but had lots to do and didn't have her make up on yet.