Hurricane Help from N.M.
An email from my cousin in Albuquerque, N.M.
We did a food drive this week at Hannah and Xa's school for Roadrunner Food Bank, our local America's Second Harvest food bank affiliate. Brought about because of hurricane relief and press releases put out by RFB. They expect to be called upon in the next couple of weeks, as well as many other food banks radiaiting out away from the southeastern US, to help deliver food to the area's own food banks as they run low on or run out of their own stockpiles.
We also held what we called a Challenge Day this morning where several PTO officers, myself included, brought our vans & SUVS to "fill up" what we could take to RFB this morning. We ended up filling the back of my van and another mom's SUV in the course of an hour and a half. We also had muffins, donuts, fruit and juice for those who dropped off stuff.
RFB weighed our donation and we ended up netting 520 pounds of food and cleaning supplies. Given that a number of families in our school are themselves recipients of RFB resources on a regular basis, we feel pretty good about that. And for a lot of us being so far away, it gave us a tangible way to help.
We did a food drive this week at Hannah and Xa's school for Roadrunner Food Bank, our local America's Second Harvest food bank affiliate. Brought about because of hurricane relief and press releases put out by RFB. They expect to be called upon in the next couple of weeks, as well as many other food banks radiaiting out away from the southeastern US, to help deliver food to the area's own food banks as they run low on or run out of their own stockpiles.
We also held what we called a Challenge Day this morning where several PTO officers, myself included, brought our vans & SUVS to "fill up" what we could take to RFB this morning. We ended up filling the back of my van and another mom's SUV in the course of an hour and a half. We also had muffins, donuts, fruit and juice for those who dropped off stuff.
RFB weighed our donation and we ended up netting 520 pounds of food and cleaning supplies. Given that a number of families in our school are themselves recipients of RFB resources on a regular basis, we feel pretty good about that. And for a lot of us being so far away, it gave us a tangible way to help.
posted by ss at 1:36 PM
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