It was so hot yesterday in DC that you could fry eggs on the hood, but our team braved the heat to deliver meals to those in need along with the amazing Food & Friends organization. This was our first volunteer day with Food & Friends and I must say of all the many volunteer activities that we have done, I have not been more impacted and touched…seeing the faces, smiles, frowns of those stricken with debilitating disease makes you really count your blessings. The impact that Food & Friends and similar organizations have on this segment of population is amazing, there is not too much we can do, not too much we can give to helping give these people in our communities a decent life and proper food to eat.
Food & Friends was started by Reverend Carla Gorrell in 1988 when a friend, sick at home with AIDS, needed something to eat. What began as lunch for one has become 3 meals a day, for more than 1,300 individuals, six days a week. Over the past decade, they have moved from a cramped church basement to a state-of-the-art kitchen and pantry facility and initiated new programs to meet the changing needs of people living with HIV/AIDS and other life-challenging illnesses in the Washington,
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