March For Meals: Senior Profile

It is March For Meals month, an annual national campaign to raise awareness of senior hunger and to encourage action on a local level. Your support and participation in our program helps people like Mario and Patsy Piña.  To learn more about our program, click here
Mario and Patsy Piña are Meals on Wheels for Greater Houston clients who just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.  “I liked her the first time I set eyes on her and I couldn’t let her get away,” said Mario.  The couple keeps their love alive by sharing laughter and joking with one another.  Things took a turn for the couple earlier this year, when Patsy got sick and was hospitalized for three months.  “We signed up for IM’s Meals on Wheels when my wife came home from the hospital,” he said. “This is the first time we’ve had to ask for help like this and these meals have been a god-send.  I don’t see very well anymore and it’s hard for me to take over the duties of cooking.  If it wasn’t for Meals on Wheels, we wouldn’t have a wonderful, hot meal to eat every day.”