History
In November 1989 a group of volunteers, recognizing the nutritional needs of people living with AIDS, began providing monthly meals at McLaren House, a group home for PWHAs. The event was named "Easter's Sundays" after Easter Armas-Mikulik, the woman who started the program.
Due to high demand, and to the need to support PWHAs who were homebound, Armas-Mikulik created the Vancouver Meals Society (VMS), which ultimately became A Loving Spoonful.
Following a needs assessment and the creation of a long-term budget in 1990, as well as study of established meal delivery programs in other major cities like Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco, A Loving Spoonful began providing weekly delivery of meals in 1991.
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