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 This site is being updated. Thank you for your patience! Food on the 15th is the recipient of The William Donald Schaefer Helping People Award from the Maryland Comptroller, Peter Franchot. Click on link for the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz7vs5Uwre8&feature=youtu.be&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery No minimum age to volunteer! Learn about Food on the 15th in this video by award winning filmmaker, June Soh, of Voice of America.
Thank you to all the volunteers in our community who make Food on the 15th so successful. This wouldn't be happening without each of you!!
Overview
Our student and adult volunteers collect donated
non-perishable food and deliver the groceries each month to low-income
older adults in Howard County. Anyone of any age can volunteer as long
as their parent or guardian are there to supervise them.
Around the 15th of
each month Food on the 15th brings in healthy, nutritious,
non-perishable regular and DIABETIC foods for economically challenged
older adults. Our Motivation
Hundreds of low-income older adults in Howard County don't have enough healthy food to eat. Our program participants often live on social security checks, which often run out by the middle of the month. Yes Howard County has food banks, but transportation and physical limitations make it difficult for older adults to get to food banks.
In addition to helping low-income older adults, Food on the 15th enables students to make a meaningful difference in our community, exposing children to philanthropy and community service at a young age by participating in all steps in the process: promotion, collection, organization, preparation of groceries and delivery.
Summer Deliveries
Over the summer, New Hope Seventh-day Adventist Church on Hall Shop Road in Fulton has supported the program by collecting and delivering food to the low-income older adults. Donations
Drop off site for non-perishable foods is at Mikey and Mel's Famous Deli, in Maple Lawn located at 8191 Maple Lawn Blvd in Fulton. Hours: 7 a.m. - 4 p.m. daily. Phone: 443-663-3354. Please no glass jars, ramen or cup-a-noodles. Contact Us foodonthe15th@gmail.com  This domain name sponsored in loving memory of Jerry Wells by his wife, Myra Wells.
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