TAMPA, Fla. — Recovering from hurricane season isn’t just about making repairs and cleaning up.

Bay area nonprofit organizations also are working to make sure people who were struggling before the storms are being helped in their aftermath.

Tampa’s Meals On Wheels relies solely on donations to feed around 1,400 people every week. Organizers said its donations have remained strong during and after the storms.

Meals On Wheels credits its volunteers for making sure those that can’t make it to the grocery store are still getting healthy meals and more.

From its bustling kitchen where chefs push out more than 1,000 meals a day to its hundreds of volunteers who deliver meals, the group aims to help as many people as it can.

Executive Director Steve King said the kitchen is where the massive Meals On Wheels program starts from scratch every day.

Specific dietary meals are carefully packaged and organized before they are sent to distribution sites across Tampa.

And after volunteers pick up those meals is when the real magic begins.

Meals On Wheels partners with TECO and other local organizations to help the homebound when volunteers identify a need.

“That daily volunteer visit, and just kind of check-in is the secret sauce of our mission,” King said. “You know, it’s so vital to what we do, to make sure that the homebound and seniors that we serve are OK.”