Nareit Hawaii Government Director Gladys Quinto Marrone (center left) offered Binhi At Ani President Melen Agcolicol (center proper) with a grant of $30,000 to help its program offering free meals to Maui seniors on mounted incomes. Becoming a member of within the presentation had been authorities officers, group leaders, and supporters of the Binhi At Ani Filipino Neighborhood Middle. — Photograph courtesy of Nareit Hawaii
Binhi At Ani Filipino Neighborhood Middle has obtained a $30,000 grant to broaden its Bayanihan Feeding Program that prepares and delivers free meals to seniors on mounted incomes.
Nareit Hawaii offered the grant to the nonprofit Binhi At Ani on Thursday.
“This grant is a godsend and comes at such an opportune time,” Binhi At Ani President Melen Agcolicol mentioned. “We’d have been strapped to proceed our free meals program with out Nareit Hawaii’s beneficiant donation. This grant can pay for our meals and provides for the following two years and permit us to extend the variety of seniors we will present free meals to on Maui.”
Binhi At Ani began this system in February 2021 to supply free meals on weekends to aged residents on mounted incomes dwelling within the Hale Mahaolu senior housing group. This system aimed to guard seniors from changing into contaminated from COVID-19 whereas additionally protecting them fed and wholesome. Since then, meals have been ready and delivered to about 150 seniors each weekend.
The Nareit Hawaii grant will enable Binhi At Ani to succeed in extra residents in different senior housing communities.
“Caring for our seniors and protecting them wholesome and safe of their golden years is a core worth of our group’s lifestyle,” mentioned Gladys Quinto Marrone, govt director of Nareit Hawaii. “We admire the spirit and dedication proven by Binhi At Ani to look out for the well being and welfare of Maui’s seniors and are proud to help this excellent free meals program that so many volunteers are giving their time to make attainable.”
