DENISON, TX--The Meals on Wheels program designates this month as March for Meals in order to bring awareness to the growing problem of senior hunger.

As the elderly population increases at a faster rate than ever before, they say their need for delivery drivers is enormous.

The youngest of twelve children, Alice Kennedy-Cox, has been a Denison resident for one-hundred-and-six years.

"I was the dirty dozen," Kennedy-Cox, said, "but I'm still here."

She says many years ago, she helped develop the Meals on Wheels program in her area.

"I helped set it up, there wasn't but a few of us there, about four or five of us."

Like many volunteers, Kennedy-Cox is now depending on the very program she helped set up, to bring warm meals to her.

Volunteers with Meals on Wheels say the older community is continuing to grow at a rate that doesn't match those who can deliver the food.

"Our society is an aging society. So we have more people who are reaching an aged state than we have younger people to take care of them," Meals on Wheels of Texoma Support Services Manager, Greg Pittman, said.

Organizers say volunteering doesn't take too much time, but the benefits are huge.

"We can accommodate anyone's schedule. If they have thirty minutes, or three hours to give us, we can accommodate any schedule they have to offer us," Pittman, said. "The feeling of satisfaction that they will have at the end of that day is just second to none."

The Davis sisters visit the 106-year-old every Friday, and hope younger people will take note and start volunteering.

"We like to think we're an asset to the community. It makes you feel good to do something for somebody else. Everybody should do something for other people," Helen and Nancy Davis, said.