TODAY: help connect hungry dc residents with free lunch?

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Laurenellen McCann

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Jan 26, 2016, 1:13:46 PM1/26/16
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Hi folks! This opportunity only exists for another hour today -- unless schools are closed again tomorrow, in which case, your help will be needed again. Here's the lowdown:

DC is offering free lunch to ANYONE (including students) who needs it between 10AM and 2PM today. (You can see Erie's original note below for more deets.)

THE PROBLEM:
the lunch centers have terrible/non-existent signage, so many of the folks who would benefit from the food aren't aware that it's available. This is where you come in. Below I've broken down ways to volunteer whether you have 5 minutes or an hour:

If you have art supplies and 10 to 15 minutes, please consider making signs and posting them around the nearest lunch center to you. (See below for locations.)

If you have 20 to 40 minutes, consider standing outside one of the locations (see below) and helping inform folks that food is available/holding a sign outside.

If you have an hour+, consider standing outside and/or making the rounds of the neighborhood around the center closest to you to help spread the word .

If you have 5 minutes, please forward this email to friends in the DC area who you think have the time/interest/ability to help. The centers are only open until 2PM.


To make it easy peasy to figure out which lunch location is closest to you, I've put together this handy map. Sharable/searchable here:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=zNm1Ss79q7nc.kWKXx2F1B9jg

If you're working from home, I can't think of a better or bigger thing you can do for your community today than to help out. Your neighbors need you and they need you now. <3 Full list of lunch locations here:


Lunch centers, which will all be open from 10AM-2PM are:

Anacostia High School, 1601 16th Street, SE

Ballou High School, 3401 4th Street, SE

Brookland Middle School, 1150 Michigan Avenue, NE

Cardozo Education Campus, 1200 Clifton Street, NW

Columbia Heights Education Campus, 3101 16th Street, NW

Coolidge High School, 6315, 5th Street, NW

Eastern High School, 1700 East Capital Street, NE

Jefferson Middle School Academy, 801 7th Street, SW 

McKinley Technology High School, 151 T Street, NE

H.D. Woodson High School, 540 55th Street, NE




On Jan  26, 2016, at 12:22 AM, Erie Meyer <erie....@gmail.com> wrote:

TLDR: Help is needed getting the word out about feeding centers in DC to hungry families. 

Hi all,

Even though schools are closed, there are free meals available in DC for kids and people who are hungry at 10 DC Public Schools tomorrow. 

More volunteers are showing up than people who need food, which is not a good sign, since ~75% of DCPS students are on a free or reduced lunch plan (meaning they may not otherwise be able to afford lunch). Folks running the program are asking for help getting the word out in DC so as many families as possible can get access to meals they need.



Feeding centers, which will all be open from 10-2, here:

●Anacostia High School, 1601 16th Street, SE

●Ballou High School, 3401 4th Street, SE

●Brookland Middle School, 1150 Michigan Avenue, NE

●Cardozo Education Campus, 1200 Clifton Street, NW

●Columbia Heights Education Campus, 3101 16th Street, NW

●Coolidge High School, 6315, 5th Street, NW

●Eastern High School, 1700 East Capital Street, NE

●Jefferson Middle School Academy, 801 7th Street, SW 

●McKinley Technology High School, 151 T Street, NE

●H.D. Woodson High School, 540 55th Street, NE

Would LOVE ideas on getting more coverage for the feeding centers (the families interviewed today said they heard about it on TV news) so that people know!

Erie 

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