2019-2020
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Your Support Helps Meet The Needs Of The Most Vulnerable No matter the challenges, Volunteers of America provides hope and stability to those in need. Your generosity allows Volunteers of America Southeast Louisiana to go where we are needed most and help those in dire straits, and your support changed the lives of more than 47,000 persons in need last year. These past months have been a strain on everyone, but our mission is clear—Help The Most Vulnerable. Your support enables Volunteers of America’s more than 20 different social service programs to help those in need in our 16-parish service area, which covers
all of southeast Louisiana. It also allows Volunteers of America to adjust with these uncertain times. For nearly 125 years, Volunteers of America has worked to help children, adults, seniors and persons with disabilities. Now, we’ve begun to adapt to meet the unique needs presented by COVID-19 while also continuing to create hope, provide stability and transform communities. Our Fresh Food Factor program is an example of stepping up to meet the needs of the community. When COVID-19 changed the world in March, our Fresh Food Factor program switched from serving up school lunches in cafeterias to providing community feeding sites with fresh, healthy meals for families struggling to make ends meet. Even with those changes, we continued our current programs by providing stability for those who need it most. That stability comes in many forms—from a roof over seniors' heads to helping people with intellectual disabilities like Adam remain safe and cared for. Our work is never done, but it’s not work when people like Adam, who need 24-hour support to ensure they can still live and work independently, become family. Those are just a few examples of how you have changed lives over the past year. Many more can be found in this Annual Report. Thank you for your support of Volunteers of America’s mission of helping our community’s most vulnerable.