What Were the Origins of the Meals on Wheels Program

question 21

Multiple Choice

What were the origins of the Meals on Wheels program?

• A) The great hunger needs during the Great Depression inspired local leaders to deliver food to peoples' homes and spare families from long food lines.
• B) A women's volunteer program in England during WWII delivered home-cooked meals to service personnel and civilians whose homes had been destroyed by bombs.
• C) Civil War practices of food and mail delivery by wagon and/or on horseback by the Union army.
• D) The Civil Rights Movement whereby women's participation in the labor force increased and communities sought new ways to provide cooked meals to families.

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