Route map updated

Jan. 5, 2009

At Friendship Trays, delivery routes change nearly every day as recipients join the program, leave, go out of town, come back from the hospital, etc. The direction sheets that guide drivers along their routes are printed afresh for each weekday's deliveries.

On this website, we refresh the photo of our office wall map every six months or so. And today proved to be the day. Click on the small version at right for a full-page version of routes as of Jan. 5.

The service challenges created by Friendship Trays' limited resources are quite visible on the large version of the map. Small thin red "flags" mark locations where a person awaits service. Most but not all of the people awaiting service live on the edge of Mecklenburg  County. Friendship Trays does not have the volunteer drivers or the subsidy funds, or both, to create new routes that would serve them.

If you or an organization with which you are associated would be interested in endowing a new route to serve your neighbors, please call Executive Director Lucy Bush Carter at 704-333-9229 for detailed information.

We wish the need for nutritious meals delivered to those who cannot make their own meal were a passing need of the current recession. But in our 32nd year, we know better. And so do the hundreds of donors who continue to make this community service possible.