AKRON, Ohio — Senior citizens Denise Dinkins and Norvella Jones carefully organize Mobile Meals on a table inside Belcher Apartments, an Akron Metropolitan Housing Property on Locust Street near Downtown.
Sometimes the women eat the meals that are delivered four times a week, but more often, they give the food to other residents who need it more.
"It's important because of a lot of times this will be the only nutritional meal that they have," Dinkins said.
Without Mobile Meals, Jones believes that some residents would struggle to find food.
"Most of these people don't even have microwaves in their house and there's no stores around here," Jones said.
Mobile Meals provides regular nutritional meals to low-income, elderly and disabled individuals in Summit, Cuyahoga and Portage Counties