Aid For Friends provides free homecooked meals and friendly visiting to those who are isolated and homebound of any age.

Description:
Aid For Friends provides free meals and friendly visiting to the isolated and homebound across the 5 county Greater Philadelphia area. The organization serves 2200 shut-ins at this time, 60% of those shut-ins reside in Philadelphia. Volunteers pick up 7 frozen dinners from a local freezer site, deliver once a week at a time convenient for them, and spend some time chatting with that person.

History:
Aid For Friends was founded in 1974 by Rita Ungaro-Schiavone who is the Founder and Executive Director today. The agency has one office in Northeast Philadelphia but has 250 freezer sites across the Delaware Vally, usually in Churches or Synagogues. An estimated 16,500 volunteers cook, visit, drive and coordinate the program across the 5 counties.

Contact people:

Tom Wallin, Assistant Exec. Director, (phone), (email) Lynn Trombetta, Outreach Worker, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (215) 464-2507

Address:

12271 Townsend Road Philadelphia, PA 19154 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.aidforfriends.org

Directions:

Take Roosevelt Blvd. North to Southampton Rd. Make a right on Southampton Road and go to the second light. Make a right on Townsend Road and we are the fourth building on the left. For maps or information, please see http://www.septa.com/

Miscellaneous Information

Are court referrals welcomed?
	No