Mission Statement

Operations for Bridge and Beyond will cease on Dec 31, 2021, last mailing date should be Dec 24th

GOAL FOR AFGHANS

Afghans
Goal: 30
Start: #24
Current: 26
0.8666%
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Showing posts with label Feeding Homeless. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Feeding Homeless. Show all posts

Saturday, December 17, 2016

The Cost of Feeding The Homeless

For any of you who've visited this blog in the past you've heard me speak about Rae, a friend who prepares and delivers meals to the Homeless living out in the elements on Sat mornings.  You'll note also a link/tab here on the blog about the people we help with information about her missions.  She began with a small group of helpers to serve the hungry, cold and often wet Homeless on the West side of Columbus.  Over time she started a group on the North side of town as well.  We here on Bridge and Beyond have supplied Rae with donations of hats, mittens, scarves, personal care items, socks, hand warmers(those chemical things), and rain poncho's that she also distributes to those in need as she gives them a good meal.


 Care is taken to provide healthy food, that's seasonally appropriate.
 The production line, if you will of helpers preparing boxed meals.

These meals are costly, and to date Rae and her helpers have funded this caring program by themselves.  Rae has just started a Go Fund Me Page to help offset the cost, and to increase the number of folks they feed.  Please, if you're able join the cause and help Rae and her army of angels feed hungry people in need.


**For anyone new to the blog, the counting below maybe confusing.  When 2016 began, we started with the number of items donated the previous year and are counting down in hopes of hitting and surpasses the number of items donated last year.**


2016 DONATIONS:
Hats:   +11(Look we've past last years mark)
Scarves:  +171 (We've past last years mark)
Mittens/Gloves/Wrist Warmers: 42
Slippers:   16
Rain Poncho's:   +106 (We past last years mark)
Cotton Washcloths:  244
Afghans:  1 (wow folks, we're almost even with last year, so let's see how far beyond it we can go)
Socks:   82
Cowls/Hoody Combo's, headbands:  0  YIPPEE, we've hit last years mark!
Shawls and shrugs, ponchos, sweaters & vests etc +2
Misc: items like personal care, headbands etc and things don't fit into above categories aren't counted

All donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Feed the Homeless #HashtagLunchbagCOL

 This past Sat hubby and I again joined in with #hashtaglunchbagcolumbus.  A group of folks have done a super job organizing this event and getting the word out.  People gather together, make lunches, and deliver them to various homeless shelters and food banks.  The movement is not specific to my city, Columbus...it's spread throughout the US.  The organizers use an on-line system of registering and encourage people to pay ahead.  Everyone donates $10.00.  The money is used to purchase bread, meat, cheese mustard, fruit, pretzels, zip lock bags, and brown lunch bags. I don't believe the lunches are necessarily the same with each event or each city.  We had about double the number of volunteers this time.

The above picture is Steve Holland (high school friend, in fact we graduated together) on the left, myself on the right with hubby beside me.  This was the 3rd work station we helped with.  This is the end process where everything is put into the brown lunch bag, bag is rolled and placed in grocery bags for delivery.  The first time we helped, there were about 50  volunteers and we made about 500 lunches in about 2 hours.   More time is involved obviously with the shopping, organizing, clean up and delivery.
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 Silly picture of me, but hubby and Lee look great, so decided to post anyway.  Lee is a co-worker of my husbands.  The first work station the 3 of us bagged cookies. When we completed that, we set up an additional work station of making sandwiches...see the bologna in hubby's hands.
Sandwiches...spread out lots of bread, another person adds meat, another adds cheese, another squirts mustard, another adds 2nd piece of bread, another bags and zips ziplocks...very much an assembly line.  This past Sat 115 volunteers were on hand and 1400 lunches were made.  What a huge growth.  People assisted with getting the world out so well it was quite crowded.  There were several sandwich making stations, one for cookies, one for pretzels (large containers need to broken down and appropriate number of pretzels zipped in bags), one to pull apart bananas , one to decorate the bags (some kids joined in and made cute little pictures on the outside of the bags, adults wrote encouraging messages on other bags).  Something for everyone to do.  The next event organized by this group will be sometime in May.  If you're local https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hashtaglunchbagcol-february-27-2016-tickets-20863022863
keep checking in for details.

Additionally, the next actual Columbus event is:

#HashtagLunchbag - CBUS


Where:


Wild Goose Creative
2491 Summit St
Columbus, OH 43202
United States

When:












Use this Link  to locate an event near you.  Just add your zip code and get involved.  If there's not an organized event near you, consider starting one.

2016 DONATIONS:
Hats:   318
Scarves:   158
Mittens/Gloves/Wrist Warmers:  97
Slippers: 101
Rain Poncho's:  105
Cotton Washcloths:  414
Afghans:   18
Socks:  189
Cowls/Hoody Combo's, headbands:  9
Shawls and shrugs, ponchos, sweaters & vests etc 0
Misc: items like personal care, headbands etc and things don't fit into above categories aren't counted

Please note the category of shawl, shrugs, ponchos etc has reached our little goal, same as last year of 1.........but please please please.........don't let that stop you from making more of these items.

All donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.

Friday, November 21, 2014

Arrests for Feeding The Homeless

Am trying to add the video and story to this picture.  Another very sad example of things that are wrong.  This is yet another city in Florida that arrests and fines citizens trying to feed those in need.  I posted recently that Ft. Lauderdale arrested a 90+ year old man, and this is another sad tail from Daytona Beach in Florida.

Just returned from an out of state wedding and vacation and collected boxes at the post office from Sheelagh S, RoseMarie, Dianne L, Sally B, Marsha M, and Sandra R.  Additionally I received drop offs from Jenny C, and Tristi K.  All these donations will be photographed and blog posts forthcoming.  Please stay tuned.  Thank you ladies.

If the embedded link doesn't work, please try to do a search and read about this sad and growing situation of lawmakers and the police that make the arrest of people doing good.



All donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Food for the Thought about Homeless People

Saw this on facebook the other day and wanted to share.  Turn your sound on folks.

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All donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.

Where are You and Your Yarn From?

I'm trying to identify where everyone is from, partially for fun. Take a look at the map. Also, believe it will aid me in cases where we have several people with the same name. Please look at the lists of bloggers and non bloggers and see if I have the state you hail from. If not, please leave a comment and let me know.

Additionally, we've had help from Scotland, England, Germany Puerto Rico, Canada, and France! They don't appear on the map, but their help is still greatly appreciated.

Where The People Who Donate Come From, is your state represented?