Help make 9,000 lunches for Veterans, homeless, seniors, refugees in our city.
About the event
This monthly project has grown to be the Chicago's largest feeding project on a single morning, with an impact of helping over 30 different sites across the city. Come volunteer with your friends and family. This event is handicap accessible and appropriate for all ages.
Saturday from 7 am to 11 am.
We are making 9,000+ lunch bags for 31+ shelters and sites to assist Veterans, seniors, homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, refugee and youth locations, and other supportive organizations.
Location: St. Andrews Orthodox church, from 7 am to 11 am. All are welcome to participate. This volunteer event is family friendly, all kids can participate and be helpful. Gymnasium is wheelchair accessible. You can join us anytime in that time window. Free parking lot South of the church and entrance on the double door facing the parking lot of the gymnasium building.
5631 N. Sheridan Ave Chicago, IL 60660
If you are available to help deliver some lunch bags to a shelter or site, please come with an empty car and trunk, we will try to match you with a site that is along your route home. Typical delivery may be 2 to 4 giant garbage bags in size.
The gym is divided into 2 volunteer groups. If you plan to help make the ham sandwiches, food handling gloves and hair nets are required and provided. You can also wear your own hat or hair bandana to manage your hair. You do not need to wear any food safety items on the sandwich bagging side.
Our sandwich making project is 100% volunteer run, with no paid staff or office space overhead. We borrow space from the community centers to gather and make these meals each month. To date, we have delivered over 300,000 lunch bag meals across the city in the last 15 years. We are always looking for more donations in bulk quantity to make more sandwices, in particular: tin foil wraps, paper lunch bags, gloves, hairnets, chips, deli meat and individually wrapped snacks (candy, rice crispy, pastry, etc) to go into a lunch bag. If you have a big SUV, van or truck, we can use your help in gathering the donations on the Fridays before the Saturday assembly event. Please visit www.hts23.com for more information or contribute. Thank you.
