Month: December 2018

We are serving and sharing and loving our community together each week.

Jeffco Eats has made progress this year in developing a sound base of Volunteers for driving and packing and Leadership.

Check us out on Guide Star https://www.guidestar.org/Profile/9487467

We will be dedicating much hard work to creating stronger relationships with corporations and monthly supporters.

Food Insecurities have shifted to where schools are asking us for emergency foods and after school foods and during the week hunger issues. When you go beyond WEEKEND FOOD NEEDS which is 42 % of 21 meals a week – you must raise more financial support to meet these weekly increasing needs.

We started to get additional truck loads of food each month now which is 20 percent more food to SHARE. Your love and our love for the children will bring results to end this hunger, not just talk.

We have a brand new website and a new volunteer platform to make signing up easier. https://www.helpinghabit.com/discover/1480

It is approximately $4 per week for weekend food shares per child/family. To now provide snacks and emergency foods we will have a strategic campaign to meet the cries and needs of the children and families. Join our monthly donor group today: 12 x s a year is what we need to grow in serving, sharing and love for the hungry kiddos. https://jeffcoeats.org/donate/

Our children need 50 people to step up to become part of the COUNT ON ME group.  You know how children know who they can count on.  So its easy to become one of those people for our children who receive food each week. Some are homeless, most have parents who work two jobs and are often not home at moments when they are needed.  Become a history maker and sign up today for COUNT ON ME – monthly donor group. 

We need to raise $5,000 a month or $60,000 a year through regular monthly donations to keep up with hunger needs which are expanding each week. These hunger needs arising are more than weekend foods, they are hunger or food insecurity events during the day for many many children. They miss breakfast, they have no lunch, they are hungry after school before they go home to no dinner.  We have to be the ones they say, I can COUNT ON YOU.  

Donate

Today for our program schools and apartments we have totes for hope bags 8 items, baking supplies, carrots, apples, and fresh foods and frozen for some school kitchens… please help us keep choices for our children and families by donating. www.jeffcoeats.org

Jeffco Eats has in past two years reached out to the families living in Lakewood who are refugees.  This month we are doing a targeted food drive for some families from Afghanistan and Congo.  We only need foods on list. They have asked for these specific foods and we want to honor them by providing what they are in need of and have chosen.  Please provide foods that are fresh and not expired dated food. We can also use gift cards of $10,$20 or $50 for them to buy halel meats. 

Families range in size from two to nine.  In Metro Denver very few Refugees live on the west side ie: Lakewood.  Let’s show them a generous show of our love and concern for these neighbors.  They are helped by International Rescue Committee in Denver.

http://www.Rescue.org/Denver

Please bring foods to 
St Paul’s Episcopal Church at 9200 W 10th Ave Lakewood.  Please email jeffcoeats@gmail.com with acknowledgement you will bring foods and provide us with your name, phone and email.  We will advise you hours you can do drop offs.  Mark the package Jeffco Eats Refugee Food Drive.

FOODS FOR FAMILIES – Afghan and Congolese in Green Mountain 

Canned foods and fresh:  chickpeas, fava beans,kidney beans,lentils, 15 lbs jasmine rice, spaghetti, cinnamon, cumin, curry powder, vegetable oil 48 oz, olive oil 16 oz, pepper, salt, tomato paste, tuna, sardines, raisins 12 oz, pomegranate, pita bread, lemons, limes, potatoes. Also need five lb bags flour and sugar.

 She was one of those ’60s people Joni Mitchell sang about, a child of God walking along a road that led to Woodstock. Seeds of goodwill from attending that music festival planted in Barbara Moore’s soul.
But they lay dormant for years, squelched by life in the corporate fast lane. Then Barbara asked herself what she really wanted. “To get back to the garden.”
She learned that more than 200,000 children struggle with hunger every day in Colorado. Some receive free or reduced-cost school lunches. But on weekends, they may go hungry. In one family, the kids play a guessing game: “Who’s going to get to eat this weekend?”
Barbara went into action, and Jeffco Eats was born. Volunteers bag food items and transport them to schools for students to carry home for the weekend.
Meeting needs doesn’t have to come through an organization. One woman I know watches out for latchkey kids on her block, helping them with loose bike chains. A grandfather runs errands for his daughter so she doesn’t have to haul her preschoolers around. A group of women knit hats for homeless teens.
The world’s needs can overwhelm me. But I heard a man say, “Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is to stop praying and to start doing.”
Good advice. So I’m part of Barbara’s brigade, filling bags with meals for hungry tummies. We’re transforming the idealism of Woodstock into the reality of foodstock.
Because nobody should be forced to guess who gets to eat this weekend.

https://www.trishhermanson.com/

Barbara wrote a book on Amazon about her life as an organic farmer.  Whether fresh food from an organic farm or staple peanut butter and jelly in jars, our children are hungry and it is one in five. This is a famine amidst the suburban lifestyle of affluence.  Will you consider adopting one of our children who we give food to every week so they are not hungry on the weekend.  

  For 39 weeks during school year it is $4 a week so $ 156.  Or summer is coming and we need to support 650 children a week at $4 per week so that is $2600 a week.  ASK your company you work for or you club or your church to become a regular supporter of Jeffco Eats.  Together we can end childhood hunger in Jefferson County Colorado.