Urgent Need for Lunches: May 28, 2021

Connections for the Homeless provides sack lunches at three locations in Evanston, Monday through Friday, year round. Volunteer sign-ups are not keeping up with the need right now. If you have been thinking about trying this, NOW is the time.

For everyone who has been contributing to this effort since last October, Bravo! – and a great big Thank You!  This is a very satisfying project that can be done by volunteers who want to help, but need to avoid close contact with the public. It can be done by one person, or you can get together with a partner to share the tasks (and fun – put on the music while you make sandwiches). 

How do you get started? 

• Choose a day (Mon. through Fri.) from the calendar on the Connections website, Connect2home.org  Go to ‘volunteer’, ‘make bag lunches’, ‘sign up to prepare bag lunches to one of our locations’. This is also where you choose the location you prefer. 
• Email Maggie Weiss to let her know the date and location you have chosen. msmaggie6@comcast.net
• Pick up a bag with nonperishable components of 25 lunches from Carol Nielsen. This will contain juices, granola bars, condiments and individual bags for sandwiches and lunches.  carolnielsen2100@gmail.com

Then, you buy the fresh items you will use in your lunches – bread, meat, and cheese to make sandwiches, and fresh fruit. We will pay for the non-perishables; you will pay for the fresh foods. We have found the best prices at ALDI, but shop wherever you choose. The cost of fresh foods for one lunch is about $1.54, so you can do 25 lunches for $40-$45.

Need coaching? Please contact Sheila Holder at skholder8@gmail.com

Thanks for all you do,

Carol Nielsen, Maggie Weiss, Sheila Holder