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Why We
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“Meals on Wheels” is one of the oldest maltesers’ projects, which has been running since 1993. Every day the Maltesers deliver warm food, which is symbolically called the soup to the homes of ill and lonely elderly people.
In 2016, the project was held in 19 cities and villages of Lithuania (Akmenė, Venta, Alytus, Troškūnai, Aukštadvaris, Ignalina, Didžiasalis, Jieznas, Kaišiadorys, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Marijampolė, Naujoji Akmenė, Panevėžys, Rokiškis, Tauragė, Vilkaviškis, Prienai and Vilnius).
In total, there were 496 help receivers involved into this project. During all year period, they have received more than 117 000 portions of fresh warm meals. Volunteers and workers have driven more than 83 000 kilometers to reach fostered elders. In addition, new variations of the project have been introduced such as special food packages for poor people and vouchers for food (these vouchers can be used in shops for buying food products).
Contrary to the prejudice, these are not antisocial individuals who have to redeem the mistakes of their past. But often these are retired teachers, engineers or other specialists, whose lives have been broken by an illness or misfortune and who have lost their health, job or even a family.
How do the maltesers help them and why is this help so important for them?
First of all, maltesers visit the beneficiaries regularly and provide assistance of all sorts. For those bed-bound people volunteers not only bring warm food every day but also provide voluntary social homecare and provide assistance with other issues.
For many of the beneficiaries the soup is the only warm food they receive during the day. Very often the visiting person becomes the only human contact with the outside world. As a result, Maltesers not only provide meals but celebrate, communicate with their beneficiaries and help them around the house.
Alytus: Mrs. Danutė Žilionienė. Tel. 8 612 77642, email: alytus@maltieciai.lt
Akmenė: Mrs. Marytė Savickienė, Tel. 8 682 38359, email: akmenė@maltieciai.lt
Ignalina: Mrs. Vida Ektienė. Tel. 8 624 02471, email: vida.ektiene@gmail.com
Kaišiadorys: Mrs. Dana Leščinskienė. Tel. 8 686 43209, email: dlescinsk@gmail.com
Kaune: Mrs. Rūta Lukianskytė. Tel. 8 682 12622, email: kaunas@maltieciai.lt
Klaipėda: Mrs. Olga Petrik. Tel.8-663-79125, email: olga.petrik@maltieciai.lt
Marijampolė: Mrs. Marija Miliauskienė. Tel. 8 343 57505, email: marijampole@maltieciai.lt
Panevežys: Mrs. Virginija Vainikevičienė. Tel. 8 45 507795, email: panevezys@maltieciai.lt
Rokiškis: Mrs. Rita Jakulienė. Tel. 8-610-61283, email: rokiskis@maltieciai.lt
Vilnius: Mr. Mantas Bružas. Tel. 8-677-44341, email: mantas.bruzas@yahoo.com
Tauragė: Ms. Lina Oželytė. Tel. 8 687 53792, email: lina.ozelyte@taurage.lt
Venta: Mrs. Genovaitė Mačiuvienė. Tel. 8 670 37678, email: Genovaite.maciuviene@akmene.lt
Vilkaviškyje: Mrs. Angelija Bakšienė. Tel. 8 682 15824, email: vilkaviskis@maltieciai.lt
Visaginas: Mrs.Diana Naglinskienė. Tel. 8-610-65714, email: arunas@sugardas.lt