Last weekend, we noted that the city’s main provider of meals to home-bound elderly had abruptly declared bankruptcy, leaving the city scrambling. But here’s good news: D.C. Central Kitchen has stepped up to fill the void.

The organization, whose wider mission includes job training, feeding the less fortunate and supporting better nutrition among children, began providing 800 meals per day, five days a week, to seniors almost overnight after the D.C. Department on Aging made an emergency call for assistance. The meals contain the from-scratch cooking and locally-grown produce that the D.C. Central Kitchen is known for.

The new meals are in addition to the 5,000 meals that DCCK cooks every day of the year, and are being distributed by the DCDOA and contractors at 18 sites across the District.